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The Collective

✍️ Kate Maruyama
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🏛 Writ Large Press 📅 2025 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9798896920816

📝 Description: The Collective

You know what they say. Move to Hollywood, sell out, lose your soul.

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Moving to Hollywood often comes with a steep hidden cost, and Kate Maruyama’s novel explores that very price with sharp, unsettling focus. The story centers on the familiar ambition of heading to the entertainment capital, only to confront the chilling reality of selling out and losing one's soul. It builds a suffocating, atmospheric tension that preys on the quiet dread of losing identity and agency within a glittering machine. Rather than relying on cheap shocks, the book aims for a psychological kind of fear, digging into the dark sacrifices demanded by success. It will suit readers who appreciate slow-burn, suspenseful horror rooted in industry realism and the frightening prospect of what people surrender to get ahead.
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Moving to Hollywood often comes with a steep hidden cost, and Kate Maruyama’s novel explores that very price with sharp, unsettling focus. The story centers on the familiar ambition of heading to the entertainment capital, only to confront the chilling reality of selling out and losing one's soul. It builds a suffocating, atmospheric tension that preys on the quiet dread of losing identity and agency within a glittering machine. Rather than relying on cheap shocks, the book aims for a psychological kind of fear, digging into the dark sacrifices demanded by success. It will suit readers who appreciate slow-burn, suspenseful horror rooted in industry realism and the frightening prospect of what people surrender to get ahead.

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