There are villages that appear on every map. Villages that appear only on the oldest maps. And then there are places that do not wish to be found at all.

When archivist Elias Vale receives a letter written by the mother who vanished from his life decades earlier, it leads him north to Blackmere — an isolated village hidden beyond the marshes, where strangers are questioned about their names, doors are bolted before nightfall, and the ruins of a burned chapel watch silently from the hill.

Blackmere has no bell tower.

But every night, something beneath the village tolls.

The people of Blackmere have lived for generations under an ancient covenant. In return for protection. But protection is not free!

Elias soon discovers that his mother was born in Blackmere — and that she escaped.

Now the debt has passed.

But the bell is not the thing beneath Blackmere.

Join Elias, on his travels through Blackmere.

In our first episode of Grim Stories, Grim opens his ancient book and tells a gothic tale of inherited guilt, buried gods, forgotten lives and the terrifying power contained within a name.

Because there are things in the darkness that do not hunger for your blood, your flesh or even your soul.

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From the shadows...

Guard your name carefully.

And should you hear a bell beneath the ground tonight...

Do not answer it.

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