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December 11, 2023

New Deal Announcement – CICADA

New Deal Announcement - Cicada

Today we are announcing a new deal for Tanya Pell‘s horror novella, CicadaCicada will be published Fall of 2024 as the fourth title in our Killer VHS Series.

In Cicada, a young woman is stranded at a rural horror film festival about a giant killer cicada and can’t decide what’s worse, the movie or her idiot boyfriend, until she realizes she’s starring in the bloody sequel when people start dying and the locals won’t let them leave.

A cover reveal and pre-order for Cicada are both forthcoming.

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