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I was also delighted to see how the fairy tale mythology blended into the story and was used for such evil purposes. The gore factor was extremely high, even for me, and I was quite impressed. Count me in for another R. Patrick Gates book. Grace Mycek. Yes, this book is very disturbing and graphic I loved the immense use of imagination Gates uses to incorporate all the nursery rhymes and how he turns them evil.
Clearly a lot of people aren't probably going to like this book because of the gore and sometimes perverse scenes but if you are willing to get past that, you'll love it! It is unfortunate that Gates did not publish more, because Grimm Memorials is a real gem. Set in a fictional Western Mass town, the main character is Eleanor Grimm, an ancient woman living in a funeral home-- Grimm Memorials. Grimm Memorials at one time turn of the century? Edmund left home at a fairly early age for boarding houses and then college and along the way discovered the Demonolatria, a book with spells, the most important being how to achieve immortality.
Eleanor stayed at home, and after her mother passed away when she was 13, her father systematically started raping her, instead of the corpses he usually employed. The book begins with the Nailer family moving to Western Mass as Steve, the stepfather, just accepted a job at a prep school there.
Steve is a poet and while teaching at the prep school for needed income, he is also writing a poem for a contest, the winner to be given a teaching job at a university. The Nailer family has two kids-- Jackie and Jen-- from Diana's previous marriage, and Diana is hugely pregnant with little Stevie, Steve and Diana's own child.
They first encounter Eleanor the witch when they pull into Amherst, Mass. Eleanor has big plans for the upcoming Halloween, for that is the time she can cast the immortality spell for herself; the only snag is that she needs 13 'innocent' boys to sacrifice. She has already begun collecting them, and how she does it gives the book its haunting power. Basically, she uses her power what she calls 'the machine' to find children and then immerse them in grand illusions based upon fairy tales hence the double meaning of Grimm!
Two children, for example, are amazed to see the pied piper walking down the street in front of their school while on recess; they go to follow him and suddenly Eleanor grabs them, chloroforms them and tosses them in the back of her ancient hearse.
All the while, any who can see what is actually happening Eleanor makes them either forget or see something else. The captured boys must be feed a diet of human flesh, so while the boys go into a cage in the mortuaries basement, the girls go into the cookpot, along with any adults that get in the way, and yes, there are several.
Eleanor is ancient, however, and her health and especially her heart are declining rapidly; she can only hope she has enough strength to last until the final rite.
She is also 'haunted' by her dead brother, who assumes her alter ego, constantly either giving her advice or explaining how she is going to fail. An awful lot of dreck was published in this era, as publishers knew horror would sell, but occasionally, you can find something that really stands out. I would almost call this splatterpunk given the gruesomeness of the story, and the high body count, but consider it more of an evil fairy tale.
Gates use of fairy tales throughout gives this something of an edge and something quite new to the horror genre. Marina Schnierer. I loved this book so much that I am currently re-reading it for the 2nd time. Gates took the premise of the well known Hansel and Gretel story and has re-written it for adults. This story isn't for the faint hearted as it does have some very grimm moments pardon the pun.
If you love fairy tales and love horror then this book is for you because it takes the two genres and mashes them up into one hell of a bedtime story Molly Gothic. I picked this up on a whim. Initially it had almost a V. Comment by Shaun. Thanks for bringing this book to my attention. It sounds like something I would like to read.
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