From award-winning author A.L. Kennedy, an original Doctor Who novel featuring the beloved Fourth Doctor, as played by Tom Baker. Something odd is going on at the Fetch Brothers Golf Spa Hotel. Receptionist Bryony Mailer has noticed a definite tenden

In the city of Saratoga Springs lay the ruins of a demolished mansion, amid the destruction gaps a hole that no one created, swallowing parts of the ruins, and refusing to be filled...Nightmares and memories of his deceased mother, and an incident from two years prior, haunt Ted, refusing to allow him the peace of forgetting. As he slips deeper into darkness, so consuming it begins to warp his mind. Ted seeks answers at the house where it all started after hearing a hidden room discovered there. Instead of the relief he sought, Ted is pulled deeper into the consuming depression and frustration. Waking up with a knife in his hand as his girlfriend, Christina sleeps in their bed is more than he can take. Ted flees, leaving behind his loved ones to protect them from whatever force has a grip on him. Christina refuses to give up on Ted and turns to an old friend for assistance. Together they delve into research and learn of an ancient curse thought to twist the minds of those who encountered it. Could possession be responsible for the sudden change in Ted? Christina knows something happened in that secret room, something that exacerbated the turmoil with which Ted struggled, but the truth seems too gruesome to be real. As the threads of macabre history unravel, the answers slowly begin to emerge. There may still be time to save Ted and protect others from the malevolent energies laying in wait for their next victim. But how do they fight that which they cannot see?The Doctor's Curse is a twisting, chilling thrill ride that will pull you in and haunt you until long after you turn the last page. Whatever you do, do not fall asleep...

Where do I start? My name is Rahul, and I am just an average Indian, with a billion dreams to be achieved, the time, a tiny particle compared to the dreams. My dream? … Own the world … every single inch of it. How? … Lounging on a couch, munching away at will. When you got high ambitions and you just can't do justice to them besides the fact that you can't help yourself off the damned couch, the only way out of this disappointing, boring world is the luring world of psychedelics. The lure is promising and attractive, and you feel like you are on the top of the world – but really are you on top of the world or are you in the clutches of an octopus whose reaches are bigger than the world governments put together? And what if this magical world just brings out the worst in you? What if the thing that you wished for initiates the path of self-destruction in you and you don't even know it? Would you hold on to it? And what if the “helping hand” out of the mess you created is just a marketing gimmick? Discover through the eyes of Rahul the curse of being a 21st century adult. It is high time that we wake up to this menace plaguing the streets of mother India. Now or Never … The question for the eternity. Are you ready? ...

Get to know the eccentric alien known as the Doctor in this “out-of-this-world read for both Classic and New Who fans” (Library Journal). From his beginnings as a crotchety, anti-heroic scientist in 1963 to his current place in pop culture as the mad and dangerous monster-fighting savior of the universe, the character of Doctor Who has metamorphosed in his many years on television. And yet the questions about him remain the same: Who is he? Why does he act the way he does? What motivates him to fight evil across space and time? The Doctors Are In is a guide to television’s most beloved time traveler from the authors of Who Is the Doctor and Who’s 50. This is a guide to the Doctor himself—who he is in his myriad forms, how he came to be, how he has changed (within the program itself and behind the scenes) . . . and why he’s a hero to millions.

Project editor: Tom Spilsbury; script: Rob Davis ... [et al.].

In Victorian London, the fates of physician Simon Bell and apothecary Gaelan Erceldoune entwine when Simon gives his wife an elixir created by Gaelan from an ancient manuscript. Meant to cure her cancer, it kills her. Suicidal, Simon swallows the remainder--only to find he cannot die. Five years later, hearing rumors of a Bedlam inmate with regenerative powers like his own, Simon is shocked to discover it's Gaelan. The two men conceal their immortality, but the only hope of reversing their condition rests with Gaelan's missing manuscript. When modern-day pharmaceutical company Transdiff Genomics unearths diaries describing the torture of Bedlam inmates, the company's scientists suspect a link between Gaelan and an unnamed inmate. Gaelan and Transdiff Genomics geneticist Anne Shawe are powerfully drawn to each other, and her family connection to his manuscript leads to a stunning revelation. Will it bring ruin or redemption? From the Trade Paperback edition.

When eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren’t the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a suicide. His daughter, one of the suspects, Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett, has a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her: they have a habit of dying. Might Gabrielle be the victim of an arcane family curse? Or is the truth about her stranger and even more dangerous? The Dain Curse is one of the Continental Op’s most bizarre cases and a tautly crafted masterpiece of suspense.

Have you ever heard about the thirteen curses of Hollywood celebrities? How about a relative, a nobody, or a neighbor next door. Planted a seed in the mother of a child of Satan that my grandfather created when he had an affair with a woman, when he took a trip to Canada after his divorce in 1939, and had a child out of wedlock from this woman who was not created out of love but anger. Because of the fact that he had four years of free time before he got married to his second wife, who he was with until the day he passed away. Therefore, it was not until 1975 when his daughter (Dorothy) came in contact with her biological father, and came back into his life as a daughter of his he met for the first time. Little did we know this woman turned out to be nothing but a bad luck omen. She brought chaos into everyone’s life to the point of people dying of cancer, health problems that played hide and seek with the doctors, families getting divorces that have been married for 30 years or more, and so many other freak and bizarre scenarios that you just can’t imagine. Because it was not your normal good and bad every day things people dealt with in life, you will learn about these things when you read the dark star of the Dorothy Curse.

Kelly Andrew's store, Wedding Bliss, is the one-stop for all a bride's needs. Abandoned by her own fiancé, she hopes to make it easier for brides by planning their ceremonies down to the last detail. But one little problem keeps her from being successful. Three brides have brought back the same vintage gown saying it was responsible for dashing their dreams. Brett, the nephew of the original owner of the dress, needs to get the gown back. Impossible since Kelly sold the garment and claims the gown is cursed. Brett's confusion at her words deepens when he discovers she communes with ghosts. Yet, when a contrite spirit comes forward, with a message, Brett goes along on a wild-bridegroom chase. Passions flare as they work to break the wedding hex before another bride's dreams goes up in flames.

Twelve bestselling authors, twelve Doctors, twelve brilliant adventures in time and space for all Doctor Who fans! This collection features all twelve original Doctor Who eshort stories, covering each of the twelve Doctors and written by a selection of wonderful children's authors.