Barb Jacobs Just Won’t Die!

SCREAM meets 00s Slasher in your next favourite ICONIC feminist horror thriller, a must-read for 2026!

Tanya Pell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Published:15th Oct '26

Should be back in stock very soon

Barb Jacobs Just Won’t Die! cover

'My new favorite slasher novel' - Stephen Graham Jones

Barbie meets Nightmare on Elm Street in this ICONIC serial killer thriller - perfect for horror fans and scream queens alike, and anyone who loves their murder bloody and pink . . .

A SERIAL KILLER? SHE'S SO OVER IT.

Barbra Jacobs is done. She's spent twenty years playing the 'final girl' - the prettiest one who gets to survive till the end of the movie - and she's had enough. She's especially done with these creepy guys at backwater horror conventions asking her to sign photos of her twenty-year-old self in underwear.

She already knows this will be her last convention. And then she finds a woman with her throat slit in the bathroom.

SHE'S NOT ABOUT TO GET CHOPPED INTO TINY LITTLE PIECES.

It's a message for her, she's sure of it. And now the bodies are dropping as a deranged killer stalks Barb, picking off her former castmates one by one . . .

She's through playing the victim. If she's going survive, Barb must give the final-girl performance of her life.

BECAUSE THIS TIME, THERE'S NO ONE COMING TO SAVE HER.

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Readers are OBSESSED with Tanya Pell's utterly fabulous feminist slasher that's perfect for fans of Dollface, Grady Hendrix, Maneater and Splasher.

"100% feminist rage and 100% slasher and I loved it.' Reader review, 5 stars

'Barb! She just doesn't know when to die!' Reader review, 5 stars

"A slasher for the ages . . . some seriously entertaining horror!' Reader review, 5 stars

'Not just for final girls, for all movie lovers!' Reader review, 5 stars

'Well, that was a total banger ! The best final girl ever ! . . . one of my top 3 horror slasher favorites.' Reader review, 5 stars

'I am genuinely obsessed with Barb . . . You will adore her, or your money back.' Reader review, 5 stars

'I came for the horror. I stayed because Barb Jacobs just wouldn't die . . .' Reader review, 5 stars

'Campy, twisty, funny and a shockingly relatable main character.' Reader review, 5 stars

'I had an absolute ball with this book start to finish . . . I've been along for the ride walking next to Barb in killer heels.' Reader review, 5 stars

'Funny and scary in equal measure with horror references galore ....

ISBN: 9781805467557

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

352 pages

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