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Barb Jacobs Just Won’t Die!

SCREAM meets 00s slasher in this darkly funny, ICONIC, blood-soaked horror, perfect for Halloween 2026!

Tanya Pell

RRP: £9.99

15 October 2026

Published by Corvus

ISBN: 9781805467557

RRP: £4.99

15 October 2026

Published by Corvus

ISBN: 9781805467564

‘My new favorite slasher novel’ – STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES

Nightmare on Elm Street meets Barbie 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 horror movie 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 fun, feminist slasher that’s perfect for HALLOWEEN!

‘Barb! She just doesn’t know when to die!‘ 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… and apparently neither would my thoughts about this book.’ 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 . . . highly entertaining from the start.’ Reader review, 5 stars

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ALL YOUR FAVOURITE HORROR AUTHORS + REVIEWERS 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