The blond girl at the Twist in pumps and a mini- skirt, leaning in that skirt as though daring her not to, or some taunting mystic withholding revelation. He was pale and lean and as handsome as a hatchet, and in egregious style and snobbery a hopeless contrast from the suburban mall food court where he sat and looked in the middle distance and fidgeted with the needle in his pocket. The green-eyed boy - he was called Roman, but what you will have seen first was the eyes - wore a tailored Milanese blazer, one hand in pocket, and blue jeans. The syringe was empty and unused, he had no use for the syringe. The green-eyed boy sat alone in the food court and fingered the needle in his pocket.

April 16th, 2013 $15.00 US/$17.374534462Įxcerpted from Hemlock Grove: A Novel by Brian McGreevyĪnd remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane.

Now a Netflix original series from director Eli Roth and creators Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman.' Or perhaps it’s Roman, the son of the late JR Godfrey, who rules the adolescent social scene with the casual arrogance of a cold-blooded aristocrat, his superior status unquestioned despite his decidedly freakish sister, Shelley, whose monstrous medical conditions belie a sweet intelligence, and his otherworldly control freak of a mother, Olivia.Īt once a riveting mystery and a fascinating revelation of the grotesque and the darkness in us all, Hemlock Grove has the architecture and energy to become a classic in its own right - and Brian McGreevy the talent and ambition to enthrall us for years to come.

Others turn to Peter Rumancek, a Gypsy trailer-trash kid who has told impressionable high school classmates that he’s a werewolf. Some suspect an escapee from the White Tower, a foreboding biotech facility owned by the Godfrey family - their personal fortune and the local economy having moved on from Pittsburgh steel - where, if rumors are true, biological experiments of the most unethical kind take place. A manhunt ensues - though the authorities aren’t sure if it’s a man they should be looking for. The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel mill.

' An exhilarating reinvention of the gothic novel, inspired by the iconic characters of our greatest myths and nightmares. Published by FSG Originals, author Brian McGreevy's Hemlock Grove: A Novel is the source of all the monster mayhem of the show, and with the second season of Hemlock Grove set to premiere this Friday, we've been provided with an excerpt from the book. But before the creature of the night stalked the residents of the small Pennsylvania town on film, it was raising hell on the printed page. Many fans of Eli Roth and werewolves are familiar with the Netflix original series, Hemlock Grove.

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