October 1st, 2013
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The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (Derek Landy)
The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (Derek Landy)
Eleven Doctors. Eleven months. Eleven authors. Eleven stories.
A year long celebration for the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who!
Derek Landy, author of the phenomenally successful Skullduggery Pleasant series, has today been revealed as the author of the tenth (and penultimate) short story in Puffin’s sensational ebook series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. Derek’s story about the Tenth Doctor (played by David Tennant) is called The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage and is to be released globally on 23rd October.
Derek Landy joins Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow and Charlie Higson in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Time Lord by bringing their own interpretation and reimagining of their chosen Doctor to create a unique Doctor Who adventure in their own inimitable style.
Also available…
Doctor Who: Anniversary Anthology
The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Anthology is the perfect collection of adventures for Doctor Who fans.
This print edition is the culmination of a year-long series of ebooks to celebrate fifty years of Doctor Who.
Eleven Doctors, eleven stories, eleven unique interpretations of the Doctor, his terrifying alien enemies and his time-travelling adventures.
So far writers have included Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Segdwick, Philip Reeve and many more to be announced.
Available to order from www.amazon.co.uk
Categorised under: Books, Story books
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River Song
November 2nd, 2013 - 10:36pmDo not judge a book by its cover, my friend. Or by its title, for that matter. Derek Landy is an INCREDIBLE AMAZING AWESOME writer and I have complete faith that he will write an excellent story, no matter the title. 🙂 😛
Scott
October 4th, 2013 - 9:33amI am so glad they got Derek Landy to write this!
Mrs Brown
October 2nd, 2013 - 10:06pmThat title excites me!
Imaginethatnodoor
October 2nd, 2013 - 9:53pmSkulduggery pleasant are amazing books. I’ve been waiting for Derek to write one of these 🙂
DoctorArkham
October 2nd, 2013 - 4:55pmOMG Derek Landy is my favourite author of ALL TIME! I really look forward to seeing what he does with Ten and Martha- his Skulduggery Pleasant series is ‘FANTASTIC’. 🙂
mrewanwatson
October 2nd, 2013 - 5:53pmSAME HERE!!! I LOVE SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT!!!
PocketPyro
October 2nd, 2013 - 6:14pmbut the series is almost over D:
DoctorArkham
October 3rd, 2013 - 3:46pmI know!!! Next year is the Final Book!!! I wonder if he’ll head over to Tanith or something… Maybe even writing a couple of Doctor Who novels for BBC Books???
McGann is the Doctor
October 2nd, 2013 - 11:47amMystery of the Haunted cottage? what is this a fan fiction? that is the worst official title for any Doctor Who story ever!
Surely “the Haunted Cottage” would have been enough
booboo
October 2nd, 2013 - 11:51amcan only find them on ebay and in the USA (they do ship to UK)
dont know anything about them other than that
Liason Ice
October 3rd, 2013 - 3:12amI wouldn’t judge the story to quickly, Derek Landy is an awesome writer and a huge Doctor Who fan so this will probably be one of the best in the series