THE GRIMM DIARIES
by Cameron Jace
The Prequels
Prologue
"Two hundred years ago, the Brothers Grimm altered the true fairy tales, hiding the fact that the characters we thought we knew were immortals, secretly living among us.
The Brothers Grimm placed a curse upon the immortals, burying them in their own dreams, in hopes that they would sleep forever. The immortals' bodies would appear as if in a coma, buried in their secret graves, in the present-day world. Their sleeping minds created a world of their imagination though, in a realm called the Dreamworld.
The Brothers Grimm once mentioned this curse. Remember the glass coffin? In the original scripts, her state of unconsciousness was called the Sleeping Death.
Long story short, the immortals broke the curse by intertwining their dreams, and were able to wake up for a brief time every one hundred years. The good characters wished to tell the truth about fairy tales. The bad characters planned to bring wrath upon our world, and keep the truth hidden at all costs.
Since immortals do not die, descendants of the Brothers Grimm summoned the Dreamhunters, a breed of angels that kill immortals in their dreams. The confrontations between the Dreamhunters and the immortals didn't end very well.
Everything that happened in that period was documented in a Book of Sand, or what mortals call the Grimm Diaries. Different fairy tale characters wrote each diary, telling part of the story.
My name is Sandman Grimm, and my job is to seal the final edition of the Grimm Diaries every one hundred years, using a magic wand that writes on pages of sand. After I seal the diaries, which is when I gather enough evidence to prove these stories are true, they will dissolve into sand that I pour into children's eyes every night to create their dreams.
What follows are mini diaries I call the Grimm Prequels, scattered and buried pages that didn't make it into the main volumes of the Grimm Diaries. There are seven main diaries each told by a famous character. You might want to read [the prequels] before the first full-length diary called Snow White Sorrow. It will give you an idea of what this world is like.
The prequels don't necessarily hold the truth. Some characters might want to manipulate the truth in their favor. You'll understand why later. And since the prequels don't give away much, some matters could seem confusing at times.
It's better to think of the prequels like snapshots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples... once you taste them, you'll never see fairy tales in the same light again."
"Two hundred years ago, the Brothers Grimm altered the true fairy tales, hiding the fact that the characters we thought we knew were immortals, secretly living among us.
The Brothers Grimm placed a curse upon the immortals, burying them in their own dreams, in hopes that they would sleep forever. The immortals' bodies would appear as if in a coma, buried in their secret graves, in the present-day world. Their sleeping minds created a world of their imagination though, in a realm called the Dreamworld.
The Brothers Grimm once mentioned this curse. Remember the glass coffin? In the original scripts, her state of unconsciousness was called the Sleeping Death.
Long story short, the immortals broke the curse by intertwining their dreams, and were able to wake up for a brief time every one hundred years. The good characters wished to tell the truth about fairy tales. The bad characters planned to bring wrath upon our world, and keep the truth hidden at all costs.
Since immortals do not die, descendants of the Brothers Grimm summoned the Dreamhunters, a breed of angels that kill immortals in their dreams. The confrontations between the Dreamhunters and the immortals didn't end very well.
Everything that happened in that period was documented in a Book of Sand, or what mortals call the Grimm Diaries. Different fairy tale characters wrote each diary, telling part of the story.
My name is Sandman Grimm, and my job is to seal the final edition of the Grimm Diaries every one hundred years, using a magic wand that writes on pages of sand. After I seal the diaries, which is when I gather enough evidence to prove these stories are true, they will dissolve into sand that I pour into children's eyes every night to create their dreams.
What follows are mini diaries I call the Grimm Prequels, scattered and buried pages that didn't make it into the main volumes of the Grimm Diaries. There are seven main diaries each told by a famous character. You might want to read [the prequels] before the first full-length diary called Snow White Sorrow. It will give you an idea of what this world is like.
The prequels don't necessarily hold the truth. Some characters might want to manipulate the truth in their favor. You'll understand why later. And since the prequels don't give away much, some matters could seem confusing at times.
It's better to think of the prequels like snapshots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them as poisoned apples... once you taste them, you'll never see fairy tales in the same light again."
Prequels 7-10
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Prequels 11-14
The Devil tells the story of the Piper of Hamlin, who he really is, the historical events he witnessed, and his relationship to Ladle Rat. Most of all, why they call him the Black Death.
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