![]() ![]() Real life proved scary as well, as his own family struggled economically when Pittsburgh’s steel industry collapsed. “That movie scared the bejesus out of me,” McGreevy says, even now. He recalls, for instance, squirming in his seat, trying to keep his eyes open while watching The Omen, an iconic horror flick, while alone in a darkened church where his mother served as pastor. In his youth, McGreevy was a loner who, as an avid fan of horror-thriller films, began courting the Gothic early. These are a few of the dark and combustible elements in Brian McGreevy’s 2012 debut novel, Hemlock Grove, which has been transformed into an Emmy-nominated Netflix television series for online streaming.Īs it happens, McGreevy spent his adolescence in Western Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley, where he witnessed the withering of the region’s industrial roots, as biotech and healthcare firms replaced steel mills. and the outsider may be a werewolf, and the teens are working together to solve the grisly murder of a high school classmate. Among the town’s residents are a teenage outsider from a poor neighborhood and a snobby A-list high school student who is the son of a rich industrialist. ![]() The class divide is stark, and the setting includes an abandoned steel site and a mysterious biomedical facility. ![]() After the demise of a once-thriving steel mill, the town of Hemlock Grove consists of families who are either wealthy from the economic transformation, or not. ![]()
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