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.

Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Superior Achievement in a First Novel 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 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.

This humorous, heart-pounding, feminist slasher follows an ageing scream queen as she is pursued by a serial killer impersonating the antagonist of her films. Former scream queen Barbra Jacobs desperately wants to break out of the box Hollywood has neatly packaged her in. Cast as the star of the Mirror horror franchise films twenty years ago, the breakout role that shaped her career has also destroyed her dreams of being taken seriously as an actress. Now forty, and still seeking the approval of everyone around her, she makes ends meet by signing old photos of herself and doing meet and greets at horror conventions. So when a producer calls asking her to host The Monsters We Made, a hot new horror docuseries, she sees it as a step in the right direction. But when fans begin dying around herand in ways that mimic the kills in her filmsBarb is thrust back into a role she cant seem to walk away from: The Final Girl. Will she ever break out of the display-box-life shes been imprisoned in, or will Mirror Man end it all in Barbies Scream House?

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 Edwardnot 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 estateand 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.

This humorous, heart-pounding, feminist slasher follows an ageing scream queen as she is pursued by a serial killer impersonating the antagonist of her films. Former scream queen Barbra Jacobs desperately wants to break out of the box Hollywood has neatly packaged her in. Cast as the star of the Mirror horror franchise films twenty years ago, the breakout role that shaped her career has also destroyed her dreams of being taken seriously as an actress. Now forty, and still seeking the approval of everyone around her, she makes ends meet by signing old photos of herself and doing meet and greets at horror conventions. So when a producer calls asking her to host The Monsters We Made, a hot new horror docuseries, she sees it as a step in the right direction. But when fans begin dying around herand in ways that mimic the kills in her filmsBarb is thrust back into a role she cant seem to walk away from: The Final Girl. Will she ever break out of the display-box-life shes been imprisoned in, or will Mirror Man end it all in Barbies Scream House?

'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.Readers can't get enough of Tanya Pell's fun, feminist slasher that's perfect for Spooky Season!'Well, that was a total banger ! The best final girl ever ! . . . one of my top 3 horror slasher favorites.' 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'Funny and scary in equal measure with horror references galore . . . highly entertaining from the start.' Reader review, 5 stars__________________________________________________________________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