Abe Sapien receives a vision of former agent Liz Sherman pleading for help. The BPRD sends a team including new recruit Johann Kraus to her last known whereabouts, a remote arctic monastery.; In search of Liz's fiery essence, the team travels through subterranean caverns. Abe recalls how Hellboy befriended him.; Young Liz is befriended by Hellboy in flashback, while in the present day Abe, Roger, and Johann fight ancient Hyperborean creatures to rejoin Liz's spark with her body.; Abe Sapien and psychic Garrett Omatta are sent by the B.P.R.D. to investigate shark attacks and apparent possession aboard a ship that travels an old slave-trade route.; Children have been disappearing from their bedrooms under circumstances so mysterious that local police call in the BPRD. The kids find cold comfort from fishman Abe Sapien and the disembodied ghost of Johann Kraus-- but when the innocent fantasy world of monsters and magic they used to enjoy becomes engulfed in terror and nightmares, the bizarre strangers who show up to help don't seem quite so scary after all.; The Lobster and his aide investigate the deaths of scientists who worked for Zinco-Davis Laboratories.; We learn how Johann became a disembodied ectoplasmic being.; B.P.R.D. is reviewing the case of a medium that contacted a Chinese ghost.; We learn how Johann became a disembodied ectoplasmic being.