Since 2009, BBC Books have published several short story anthologies based on the TV series Doctor Who. Unlike their novels and audiobooks, which are published under the title of New Series Adventures, or their previous short story range Short Trips (1998–2000), these books are not considered part of a series, but are published irregularly and generally as stand-alones.
A book containing fourteen stories, with one of each previously appearing in each fourteen volumes of the Doctor Who Files series (published by BBC Children's Books), and another, previously unpublished, story.
Tales of Trenzalore: The Eleventh Doctor's Last Stand (2014)
All these stories take place during the Eleventh Doctor's centuries-long defence of the town of Christmas on the planet Trenzalore, as depicted in the 2013 Christmas special "The Time of the Doctor".
Aliganza Torp meets a sepulchral undertaker in a dark place who questions him about his name as well as the Doctor's. The undertaker explains that the Doctor thinks so little of him because he won't reveal his name. Then he tells Aliganza to hold out his hand.
Following the Tenth Doctor's encounter with William Shakespeare as depicted in the 2007 episode "The Shakespeare Code", this anthology is presented as a series of found documents, mostly alternative drafts to or author's notes about Shakespeare's plays, that demonstrate encounters with or visions of the Doctor.
The Doctor takes Alexander Pope and Lewis Theobald back to Shakespeare's time to see an original performance of a play recently resurfaced in Theobald's possession of which Pope is critical.
These stories were first published as a series of e-books, appearing every month or so in 2014. The hardcover collected edition features an additional, original story printed on the dust jacket.
Title
Plot
Featuring
Author
"The Death Pit"
Hotel receptionist Bryony notices guests keep disappearing, and can't find anyone interested in helping her investigate until the Doctor, trying to find Chicago, shows up.
To the Doctor's delight and Clara's astonishment, they land on a planet that's truly unknown—it's not on any maps, and it has no name. What could be so terrible that its existence has been erased?
The Doctor needs time to repair the TARDIS after hitting a temporal mine, but somehow finds himself inside a Welsh bed and breakfast run by a strangely familiar-looking Christina. The TARDIS seems to have enveloped Christina's entire town—and something else is trapped inside with it.
Before their vacation on an Australian salt lake can get rolling, the Doctor and Jo find themselves looking into mysterious sculptures made of salt that look an awful lot like real people, in great pain.
When the Doctor discovers John Dee and his assistant have come across a "great disturbance in the cosmos" in 1572, he realizes they are all in terrible danger, not helped by the appearance of Dee's new associate claiming the academic rank of Master.
To guarantee peace, Prince Zircon has to choose a bride from the Bog People, dead men and women who have been resurrected, but he's in love with the enslaved Princess Ash, whose parents were deposed by the current Queen.
"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Time Traveller"
Struggling to get back to UNIT HQ, his body being destroyed by radiation, the Doctor arrives in the perfect village, where everyone is happy. But where is he really?
The Doctor is keen to explore the ancient Musaeum of Alexandria, and Zoe is keen to correct the advanced but outdated science of the era. An encounter with the legendary inventor Hero may turn out not to be a friendly visit, however.
Six stories, all written by Justin Richards, depicting adventures the Twelfth Doctor takes between his travels with Clara Oswald, and all taking place in the United States at various points in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Myths and Legends (2017)
Stories based on Greek myths, presented as a collection of myths from many worlds in a Time Lord archive. All stories were written by Richard Dinnick.
UNIT investigates a neighbourhood where one family escaped unscathed from a mysterious and sudden absence of air.
Parts of the story are told through excerpts from Sir Charles Grover's book Last Chance for Man (and the Doctor declines to write its foreword); the book and Sir Charles feature in Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
The Doctor and Romana are trapped in the Time Vortex while punting at Cambridge.
Explains what happened to the Fourth Doctor during the events of "The Five Doctors" (in that story, his scenes are created purely from unused footage from the incomplete serial Shada).
When the Doctor asks Adric and Nyssa to move his TARDIS, they accidentally land in the American South and journey with an escaped slave to recover the TARDIS.
Takes place during The Visitation. Waterhouse portrayed Adric onscreen.
In 1963 London to retrieve the Hand of Omega, the Doctor is approached by a Time Lord who warns him that the Daleks have brought a modified Slyther from Skaro to help in their search.
The Encyclopedia Gallifreya, always recording and uploading the Doctor's adventures, unexpectedly becomes sentient when Clara spills one of its bottles. It sees the Doctor regenerate twice, questions its own purpose, and suffers an attack from Tzim-Sha and the Ux.
A second Christmas-themed anthology by author Dave Rudden. An additional linking story, "Canaries", first released online and included in the e-book version, tied into the Time Lord Victorious multimedia storyline.
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