Rumpelstein High: the only high school in Sorrow, owned by the mysterious Mr. Rumpelstein. It’s at 1812, in the neighborhood of Nefilheim.
Bedtime Stoories: you’d say it’s misspelled but the school thinks it’s a unique name for a library that has dark corridors that lead to another library where you can find un-forged books.
Candy House: where Axel and Fable live. It’s an awesome house. In case you would like to visit, it’s at Seven Breadcrumb Street.
The Black Forest: a dark forest where Snow White was born and nothing is as it seems.
The Children of Hamlin: the kids Charmwill was reading to in the beginning. There’s a lisping girl, a gapped-tooth girl, and adventurous boy. Don’t make fun of them. They’re going to be badass at some point.
Santa Claus: Charmwill doesn’t think it’s cool that he enters houses without permission, but they seem to be good friends, too.
The Vampire in Forks: the vampire Loki killed and was resurrected. People say he appears in the twilights.
Dork Dracula: he’s not a dork at all.
The students dressed as The Wicked Witch of the West, Robin Hood, Prince Charming, Cinderella, and the Bunny Girl: they’re all dead now. Don’t bother
Murder house at 112 Ocean View: It’s the Amityville Horror house’s addressed. Loki didn’t know that, but everyone died in that party, so forget about it.
Jeanette and Amalie Hassenpflug: Angel’s fake parents. They were vampire slaves but they managed to escape and never be seen again. They are the true tellers of Snow White’s fairy tale. The Brothers Grimm collected the story from them.
The Closet: a hangout for Boogeymen
Baby Tears: what Boogeymen live for
Spooky Woogy Boo: the proper way to salute a Boogeyman. You can say, ‘that’s so boo’ if you see something cool as well.
Awooo: the annoying way to summon the Bullyvards/werewolf friends.
The Bullyvards: bad dudes who hurt other students, mostly werewolves. Loki loves to kick their asses, but then he has to run.
Jolly Roger: the pirate ship that attacked Angel and Carmilla. Some say it’s led by a man called Captain Hook.
Styria: the home of the Karnsteins.
Dhampir: in Slavic folklore, it’s a vampire who is born of one human and one vampire parent. It has the power to kill all vampires in the world and is stronger than a regular vampire.
Abe Noxious: Sorrow’s most famous tattoo artist.
Lohr: a town in Germany that seems to be the family’s origin. It has a caste called the Schloss, and a mysterious history. It’s a true town, like almost everything above. Some people just don’t know it.
Skeliman the Ferryman (sometimes the Libraryman): although he’s not a place, we decided to mention him here, because we’re not sure if he’s even real. No one knows if he’s a myth, but he scared the skeletons out of Axel, and seems to appear every in the Harum Scarum forum. Hopefully, Loki and his friends will meet him someday.
Author’s Notes:
For the lovely readers who have read The Grimm Diaries Prequels, you might expect to read a lot of notes in this book. Although Snow White Sorrow is full of allusions and secrets, I’d prefer they’d be revealed slowly through the rest of the series. I didn’t want to add a lot of notes and spoil the fun of rereading or discovering them by the readers themselves. So I am only going to mention some facts that don’t spoil anything for the fun of it. I hope you like them:
- The Vampire Craze did happen. People were killed and tortured when they were only ill but thought of as vampires.
- Towns called ‘Hell’ exist everywhere in the world.
- The Great Snoring is the name of a real town, too.
- Lohr is the name of a real town in Germany. If you visit it one day, you’ll see how it’s related to Snow White. It feels like a small fairy tale location. It’s real fun.
- The Schloss is a real castle. It’s located in Lohr, but it’s not that evil in real life—or is it?
- There is no such thing as Sticky Sweet Bones—unless you live in Sorrow, of course.
- The disease that people mistook for vampirism in ancient times was cured by ingesting blood into the liver. This is a true fact. When it was discovered, people thought it was a way of resurrecting those they thought of as vampires so they decided to destroy the liver with the heart to make sure the ‘vampire’ wouldn’t get resurrected.
- Jeanette and Amalie Hassenpflug are the original tellers of the Snow White fairy tale.
- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm did release the original story of Snow White with the Evil Queen being her mother. They changed it fifty years later, in 1857, to a stepmother. No one knows why for sure.
- In one of Cinderella’s original versions, the pigeons did pick out her evil stepsister’s eyes. Actually, more horrible things happened to their mother.
- Almost all original fairy tales were filled with gore and blood.
- Prince Charming never kissed Snow White in any original version. This is also, a fact.