Grimm Memorials

Written by R. Patrick Gates

Narrated by Sal Fitzgerald

Once upon a time...

Far from the concrete and steel of Boston, the town of Northwood nestles beneath the summit of Mount Sugarloaf. The quiet community seems like the perfect place for Steve and Diane Nailer to raise their family of two children with a third on the way. Their new home is perched on the edge of a forest. A trail through the woods leads to an old Victorian mansion that once housed the town mortuary. But the memories of the dearly departed are the least of what lurks there....

Eleanor Grimm is a woman of desperate cunning, possessing unfathomable power. Driven by the dark magic, she has bewitched the parents of Northwood, keeping them spellbound and distracted from her true agenda: claiming the most innocent children to satisfy her hungers.

True evil is no fairy tale.

"Gates writes with such all-stops-out intensity that even Stephen King's faithful followers will begrudgingly admit the presence of an heir to the throne." (Publishers Weekly)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Capricorn Literary
• Release date: Feb 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822627536

Reviews for Grimm Memorials

[RichardKevinWilson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

WARNING: Do NOT, NOT open this book if you are easily disturbed and or disgusted by scenes of severe graphic violence against children, set in a 'Fairy Tale' type story!!

I remember the summer of 1990 when this book first came out....I immediately picked up a copy at Borders Books and could not wait to get home from work to start it. I had read it entirely over that weekend and NEVER ever forgot the tale of Eleanore Grimm and her twin brother Edmund. You won't either.....believe me! Now it is 2022 and this is the third time reading this, but it is my first time with it being an audio book version.....oh dear!! With this book being the first book in a double book series and being over 440 pages long, you better have a strong stomach to make it thru it, or otherwise don't start it! R. Patrick Gates has written other books but nothing has come close at all to both the 'Grimm Books'.....and that is a good thing; making this extreme 'modern day retelling of Hansel and Gretel' the great book it is. Now please do not think that i am as sick as 'The Witch; Eleanore' that is not who I am.....I just loved to be shocked, and terrified by the horror that i read while reading it.

Married couple Steve and Diane Nailer are moving from Boston to the small town of Northwood, a quiet and very secretive town that nestles in the shadows of the huge Mount Sugarloaf. Yes, how quaint so far....sounds like the beginning of a game of CandyLand, but this is not a game you are going to win at. They have two children; 6 year old Jackie, and his older sister Jennifer roughly 8 or 9. Their mother has remarried their step father Steve and he has been hired at a prep type school in this Massachusetts town with a taste for the macabre, and that is because of it's past, and the old victorian mansion in the woods behind their house; the one that is called Grimm Memorials. And was the sight of the local morgue/crematorium and home to Eleanore and her brother.

Neither of the Grimm children ever had a chance. With her being raped from the time of being 12 by her father nightly in her bedroom while her brother listened and sometimes watched, she always wondered why her, and not the dead and naked bodies that her father had at his disposal at any day and time? Yes, this book has necrophilia in it.....and a LOT let me tell you; described very graphically too. Between the two twins they enable what they learn to call 'The Machine' and this machine lives in their head and imagination, but it is something only they can control, and how fast this machine runs, depends on how many people they can torture and kill to get the electricity to run it's motor. Now you are going to think: what the hell is this? A bad LSD trip? No, this is really happening in Grimm Memorials. Both the twins can manipulate any one who sees them to see them as something different....whether it be a grown Hollywood starlet or a well muscled and handsome man looking for the right woman to swoon. But once you meet the Grimms.....you will never live to tell anyone about them or where they live, that is unless you are Jackie and Jennifer Nailer.

This book is if not THE MOST DISTURBING, GRAPHIC, SICK AND MOST VILE BOOK of cannibalism, sexual deviantness, torture and murder of children being lured to a sugar and gumdrop looking house in the woods you will ever read! But be warned.....once you start it the horror does not EVER let up. Remember there is a second book; 'Grimm Reapings' and there was going to be a 3rd; 'Grimm Beginnings' but it never came out in 2017 as planned. I give this disgusting, sick, EXTREMELY GORY AND GRUESOME, tale of horror 10 blood covered pieces of candy atop a blood covered house! And it is well deserved. I warned you, it is NOT FOR THE Squeamish or light of hear and stomach.

10 blood soaked and flavored Gumdrops

[Jackie Jaramillo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I agree with everything that was stated in previous comments. It is disturbing with its graphic descriptions. It may even make SK look a little tame.

[Nina Quartuccio · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wowzers...eeek...omg. Extreme horror and graphic visuals. Absolutely NOT for non-horror buffs. There was so much brutality with plenty of blood and gore. layers of nasty sex acts that will make your skin crawl. Child violence throughout the entire story and let us not to forget the insane cannibalism... all will leave you wondering what did I just hear? Incredibly well done and the narrator made it all seem so real. So good for me, considering I am a horror freak, I can't say enough. Eeek.

[KIMBERLY MOORE · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very cool and spooky rendition of fairy tales! Loved it

[Allen Shellenbarger · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Talk about graphic, a twisted Hansel and gretel story. If you have a weak stomach, don't listen. I liked it, though overall

[Precious Santiago · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The book was good (check tw this is very dark and violent). The audio quality was really bad ?