Grymm — Keith Austin

The sun-bleached, lopsided wooden town sign decorates the side of the new highway through the desert. Someone has thoughtfully painted the population statistics on it: 5000 3502 2006 1545 810 200. Grymm, the dripping, blood-red paint reveals, is a place you leave.Instead, thanks to a job offer that George Lipton and his wife cannot afford to ignore, squabbling step-siblings Jacob Daniels, 11, and Wilhelmina Lipton, 13, are rushing towards it. And worst of all they have to put up with their hated, caterwauling six-month-old half-brother, Bryan.Grymm perches on the edge of the desert and from the moment Jacob and Mina enter the town they sense something is wrong. From Thespa Grymm, the grotesque letting agent who seems to want to eat their baby brother, to a cafe owner whose milkshakes might contain actual maggots and the creepy, hairless butcher, Cleaver Flay, all is not what it seems.Then, overnight, baby Bryan disappears, as if he never even existed. And that's when things get seriously weird...