Abe Sapiens and Hellboy's colleagues, who form the B.P.R.D., have much to do in this second volume: Venice is flooded by an evil marsh; the intact bodies of three women who have died for hundreds of years are discovered at the bottom of a pond; a ghost train is appearing in Alabama; children are taken away by fresh pulpit-loving monsters, and dead-living people are spreading terror in a small town in Moldova ...