Hemlock Grove. Poster of the 2013 TV series and cover of the 2012 book
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Hemlock Grove
Brian McGreevy, 2012
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Brian McGreevy, Lee Shipman, 2013-2015

The series is set in the town of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania. The town is a mixture of extreme wealth and poverty, as the closing of the town’s steel mill many years earlier caused many to lose their jobs. The town’s main sources of employment are now the Godfrey Institute for Biomedical Technologies and Hemlock Acres Hospital.


Maps to the Stars. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2012 book, Dead Stars
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Dead Stars
Bruce Wagner, 2012
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David Cronenberg, 2014

A contemporary tale exploring the demons of our celebrity-obsessed society. Stafford Weiss is a psychotherapist and life coach who made his fortune with self-help books. His wife is the overbearing mother-manager of their 13-year-old son, a TV star recently out of drug rehab. Their estranged daughter has just been released from a psychiatric hospital and befriended a limo driver who is also an aspiring actor.