Hellboy. The Corpse

Plot

Hellboy is called to Ireland in 1959, to deal with a child abduction. The child, Alice Monaghan was replaced by the fairy, Gruagach in disguise. Hellboy burns Gruagach with iron, and forces him to reveal his true form. In order to get back the real child, Hellboy made an agreement with a group of little men Gruagach told him to lay the body of Tam O'Clannie to rest in a proper Christian grave. At the first two churches, the dead call out "No Room," and Hellboy is forced to continue on. Dagda, King of the Farie (introduced here for the first time), sees that Hellboy will succeed and orders one of the goblins to return the Monaghan child. Meanwhile, Gruagach seeks vengeance from Hellboy, and releases the boar-headed giant Grom, who immediately eats Gruagach. Hellboy fights Grom, and buries Tam. The deal completed, the fairy return the Baby to Hellboy, and the goblin tells him that they had intended to raise the child as their own because the Fairy can no longer have children, and now without Alice, it is only a matter of time before Dagda calls his kind away from the world forever.