I’ve had a sufficient number of occult experiences and synchronicities that to me it’s like love or orgasm. I’ve had experiences where I had an ex-girlfriend that I knew was really mad at me and for no reason that the laws of physics could justify, a lamp would topple over in my room. This is stuff that is not much of a stretch for me. Her name is Mama Donna her dog’s name is Princess Poppy. She’s the self-described White Witch of Los Angeles. If you look in the acknowledgments of the book, there’s one woman named Maja D’Aoust. If you’re more likely to understand them, you were less likely to be killed by them - and then you could pass your genes along.ĭid you believe that werewolves and vampires existed?įuck, I still do. The idea was that there was a huge amount of survival value to being intrigued by predators conceptually because it made you more likely to understand them.
In anthropology there’s a term they use called “the Jurassic Park syndrome.” It explains why monsters and predation are tropes that are extremely elemental to every storytelling tradition in every culture in history. I think everyone who’s being honest is into this kind of thing. It’s stuff I’ve been into my entire life. This is stuff you were really into as a kid?
But at the same time I didn’t want that to be at the expense of psychological nuance and taking a certain amount of pleasure in prose as a medium. That I wasn’t good at it, and that I should write about what I cared most about in the world, which tended toward blood and monstrosity. And I realized working in the mode of New Yorker-style writing - The New Yorker claims not to have a house style and it absolutely does - and I just realized I didn’t have an interest in that. We talked by phone recently about what’s really scary, darkness and the best shaman in Park Slope.ĭesiree Browne: How did Hemlock Grove get started?īrian McGreevy: I was in graduate school at the time and there seemed to be a tendency to homogenize fiction. McGreevy lives in LA, where he’s also a screenwriter (right now he’s working on an adaptation of Dracula as well as one of his novel for Netflix). Set in a Pittsburgh suburb, the novel centers on the grisly murders of teenage girls but the usual suspects, one werewolf and one vampire, are the least scary things stalking the sleepy little town. Hemlock Grove, published as part of the FSG Originals series, goes straight for the jugular, so to speak. Granted there is an inescapable genius to its command of 14-year-old girl psychology its premise is that the hot, broken guy who breaks into your house to draw you while you sleep wants to wait until marriage until he nearly screws you to death on a feather bed.”
In an essay for New York ’s Vulture blog last year, author Brian McGreevy argued that “over the last decade, something has gone terribly wrong with the modern vampire.
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