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This B Just Won't Die!

by Tanya Pell

A scream queen trapped in her most familiar role

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A scream queen trapped in her most familiar role

Barbra Jacobs’s career was defined by the Mirror slasher films, but the fame has left her boxed into an image she wants to outgrow. At forty, she is still signing old photographs and appearing at horror conventions when an opportunity to host a new horror docuseries seems to offer a different path. Then fans around her are killed in ways that echo the films, pulling Barb back into the “final girl” role. The setup links the slasher threat to the book’s central tension: the distance between a performer’s public image and her own ambitions. Its horror premise is also framed as a darkly humorous tribute to slasher cinema and the iconic doll.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of slasher fiction and horror-film settings
  • Readers interested in stories about fame, typecasting, and an actor seeking a new career direction
  • Those who enjoy dark humor alongside horror

Themes

Typecasting and public imageCareer reinventionSlasher cinemaFame and ambition

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Book overview

This humorous, heart-pounding, feminist slasher follows an aging scream queen as she is pursued by a serial killer mimicking the murders from her horror films.

In this darkly humorous love letter to the slasher film and the iconic doll, aging 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 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, Barb makes her living signing old photos of herself and doing meet and greets at horror conventions.

When a producer calls her to ask about hosting 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 her--and in ways that mimic the kills in her films--Barb is thrust back into a role she can't seem to walk away from: the final girl.

Will she ever break out of the display-box life, or will Mirror Man end it all in Barbie's Scream House?
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