Barb Jacobs Just Won't Die! : Scream meets 00s slasher in this ICONIC blood-soaked horror from your new favourite author - Tanya Pell

Barb Jacobs Just Won't Die! : Scream meets 00s slasher in this ICONIC blood-soaked horror from your new favourite author - Tanya Pell

Tanya Pell

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Published 15 October 2026

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  • Pages · 352 pages
  • Publication Date · 15/10/2026
  • Genre · Horror & ghost stories
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My new favorite slasher novel' Stephen Graham JonesA serial killer? She's SO over it. Barbra Jacobs is exhausted after twenty years playing the 'final girl', the only one that survives till the end of the movie. She's sick of creepy guys at backwater horror conventions asking her to sign photos of her twenty-year-old self in underwear. She's decided this is her last one. She thinks her day can't get any worse when she finds a woman with her throat slit in the bathroom. And now this deranged killer is stalking Barb and picking off her former castmates one by one . . . She's sick and tired of playing the victim. If she's going to live, Barb must give the final-girl performance of her life. Because this time, there's no one coming to save her. Nightmare on Elm Street meets Barbie in this iconic serial killer thriller - perfect for horror fans and scream queens alike. ALL YOUR FAVOURITE HORROR AUTHORS CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF BARB JACOBS:'Barb Jacobs is a Final Girl for the ages . . . this is one book you absolutely don't want to miss' Gwendolyn Kiste'GO BARB! An ode to feminine-and final girl-rage that is exactly what I needed' S.A. Barnes'Barbie Just Won't Die! is the authentic final girl anthem that slasher fans have been screaming for' Brian McAuley'Say hello to your new slasher obsession . . . Feminist, frightening and fantastically funny. Fans of Stephen Graham Jones will eat this up' Josh Winning'Tanya Pell delivers a razor-sharp, unapologetic deconstruction of fame and female survival' Christa Carmen'A glittery, campy meta-slasher, Pell delivers gnarly kills, terrible puns, a reluctant final girl and a theatrically menacing masked killer' @georgesreads'A wildly entertaining slasher that truly understands what horror fans love while delivering something fresh and meaningful' Capes and Tights

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