Tanya Pell – författare

In this queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne classic gothic story, Rappaccini’s Daughter, a young woman is lured to a lush estate owned by a botanist who might be hiding dark secrets. Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity school she was raised in, desperate to find the only family she knows. Using clues from his past letters, she sets off for the sleepy town of Farrow but everyone there claims to have never heard of Edward—not even the man he was supposedly working for as an apprentice. With nowhere to go, Cordi turns to Lady Evangeline, a local botanist who owns the magnificent Edenfield estate. The benevolent lady of the manor has made it her mission to take young, often traumatized, women into her employ and protect them from man’s world of wicked desires and deceits. Hired as a maid and companion to her enigmatic daughters, Prim and Briar, Cordi quickly settles into Edenfield. Even as her relationship with Briar blossoms, Cordi can’t help but suspect that there are secrets in the estate…and when she stumbles across evidence that Edward was once there, she’s determined to find answers. Atmospheric, eerie, and thoroughly original, Her Wicked Roots will establish Tanya Pell as a “wickedly creepy” (Josh Winning, author of Heads Will Roll) and vital voice in horror.

In this “creepy as hell” (Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author) queer retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne classic gothic horror story, Rappaccini’s Daughter, a young woman is lured to a lush estate owned by a botanist who might be hiding dark secrets.Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity school she was raised in, desperate to find the only family she knows. Using clues from his past letters, she sets off for the sleepy town of Farrow, but everyone there claims to have never heard of Edward—not even the man he was supposedly working for as an apprentice. With nowhere to go, Cordi turns to Lady Evangeline, a local female botanist who owns the magnificent Edenfield estate. The benevolent lady of the manor has made it her mission to take young, often traumatized, women into her employ and protect them from man’s world of wicked desires and deceits. Hired as a maid and companion to her enigmatic daughters, Prim and Briar, Cordi quickly settles into Edenfield. Even as her relationship with Briar blossoms, Cordi can’t help but suspect that there are secrets in the estate…and when she stumbles across evidence that Edward was once there, she’s determined to find answers. Atmospheric, eerie, and thoroughly original, Her Wicked Roots will establish Tanya Pell as a “wickedly creepy” (Josh Winning, author of Heads Will Roll) and vital voice in gothic horror.

'A glittery, campy meta-slasher, Pell delivers gnarly kills, terrible puns, a reluctant final girl and a theatrically menacing masked killer' - @georgesreadsA serial killer? She's SO over it.Barbra 'Barbie' Jacobs may be the wrong side of forty, but she's still beloved by her fans. Typecast as a Scream Queen from her very first horror flick, Barb's always wanted to prove to herself that she's more than a 'final girl' - the prettiest one who somehow manages not to get chopped into tiny little pieces at the end of the movie.But now her wish might be coming true . . .In the bathroom at this horror convention Barb finds a cheerleader in the stalls covered in blood. How cliché. But this time, it's not from the props department - her throat's been ripped out. As the body count rises, Barb knows she has to play the part one last time if she's going to escape the deranged psycho serial killer who's murdering everyone around her.Barb Jacobs has had enough of people-pleasing. She is NOT dying in Barbie's Scream House. So if she makes it out, hell, she's having the fries.A hilarious and terrifying serial killer thriller jam-packed with classic horror tropes for anyone who loves Barbie, Scream Queens or Nightmare on Elm Street.