The Chimes of Midnight is released in paperback today! @nathanbottomley.com, @markdodyk.bsky.social & @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social discuss this novelisation on the popular Trap One🎙Podcast: Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/mr22k3s7 Spotify: tinyurl.com/2kj2uupz Podbean: tinyurl.com/5n85p3mz

The Ayckbourn Blog takes a look at the writing of Robert Shearman, prior to the Whitby Lit Fest where Rob is the guest of the first Patron Spotlight, chosen by Alan Ayckbourn.

Robert Shearman: A Primer!

Alan Ayckbourn's first Patron Spotlight at Whitby Lit Fest is taking place on Sunday 22 November featuring the playwright and author, Robert Shearman. Rob's award-winning career on stage and page (and screen and radio too!) began in Scarborough under Alan Ayckbourn in 1994 with his play White Lies. He subsequently went on to a successful internationally lauded career as playwright and then as a prose writer, whose weird-fiction short stories have won a number of prestigious awards and accolades…

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It’s publication day for The Key to Time! A book thick enough to stun a giant squid. And next week comes the release of the paperback edition of The Chimes of Midnight. I’ve been hard at work writing Doctor Who books! (Although I refuse to believe anything involving Doctor Who constitutes work.)

Ghost Lights is out now, featuring new stories from me and 19 other powerhouse horror authors! Pick up your copy wherever books are sold!

#DoctorWho #TargetBookClub has readings from The Key To Time by @robertshearman.bsky.social, The Six Doctors by @0tralala.bsky.social and The Vampire Mutation by @stevecolewriter.bsky.social PLUS Nigel Robinson. All from works so far unpublished. Tickets: bit.ly/smallbluebox

We're gathering at Writing the Occult: Time & Place to talk about just this sort of thing - how you can nail time & place in speculative narratives. Mark joins Una McCormack, Rob Shearman & Simon Guerrier on a very special panel talking about using the TARDIS to make time and space infinite, too. 🧵⬇️

You can now read the Spanish translation of "Beneath the Diaphragm, the Gut Itself", by the terrific @robertshearman.bsky.social. First published in "Bound in Blood", edited by @johnnymains.co.uk. Enjoy it! cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/b...

Bajo el diafragma, las mismísimas entrañas, de Robert Shearman

Celebramos el Día del Libro con un nuevo relato, y nada más y nada menos que de nuestro queridísimo Robert Shearman. En esta ocasión nos visita (y ya por sexta vez) con una historia con los libros …

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#OTD in 2001, Paul McGann and India Fisher recorded two Big Finish Doctor Who plays, Invaders from Mars and The Chimes of Midnight. #McGannuary

Paraphrasing Robert Shearman: 2025 is tottering about now, it looks unsteady on its legs. If we all shove hard together this one last time I'm sure we can push it over.

New Christmas episode up now! Asterix and the Roman Agent - and LOADS more Asterix books - with Louie Stowell, Robert Shearman, Una McCormack & Andy Miller. 🎄📚🎅 @robertshearman.bsky.social @louiestowell.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/6mIn...

Hamster Book Club - The Chimes of Midnight @jameslark.bsky.social @michaelmills.bsky.social Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without a Hamster Book Club Christmas Special! And this time we are seasonally themed with the Christmas chiller, The Chimes of Midnight! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Hugely looking forward to seeing my friend Peter being interviewed about his extraordinary Ghost Story for Christmas next week! Some tickets still available.

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Next Sunday. Screening an ultra rare BBC Christmas ghost story and celebrating the 20th anniversary of the superb A View from a Hill, plus a chat with its writer, Peter Harness. Details and tickets:

A fabulous reinterpretation of Jubilee from @robertshearman.bsky.social @stevecolewriter.bsky.social scifibulletin.com/doctor-who/r...

Review: Doctor Who: Books: Jubilee

By Robert Shearman BBC Books, out now The Dalek invasion of 1903 was repelled – wasn’t it…? For many, many years, people have asked whether there would ever be book adaptations of the Big Finish Do…

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New book review from Mario of the @datlow.bsky.social edited anthology Night and Day featuring stories from @claymcleod.bsky.social @danchaon.bsky.social @benjaminpercy.bsky.social @robertshearman.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/ellen-datlow... 💙📚

Night And Day: Which Scary Stories Will Keep You Up? 27/08/2025

Night and Day: Which Scary Stories Will Keep You Up? a new horror book review from Mario for Ginger Nuts of Horror.

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I’ll be writing about #sdcc with lots of photos tomorrow in my free weekly Friday Newsletter on @beehiiv.com . If you fancy trying it, sign up here: pauls-newsletter-2914ab.beehiiv.com

Paul Cornell's Friday Newsletter

News about Paul Cornell's writing, plus a diary of his life as the Dad of an autistic child.

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Thanks so much to @gossjam.bsky.social for organising Target Book Day! It was wonderful to be in a room that felt so genuinely joyous and celebratory - all championing these funny little books that turned us all into readers and writers. What a wholly lovely time!

#DoctorWho #TargetBookClub will be having readings from @unamccormack.bsky.social, @garethlpowell.bsky.social, @scotthandcock1984.bsky.social, Anthony Read and @robertshearman.bsky.social - come hear their words on Saturday 19th July, Tickets bit.ly/escape2danger

CloisterFox is a beautifully-illustrated weird fiction zine with stories by Aliya Whiteley, Robert Shearman, and Ally Wilkes, to name but a few. Paperback and ebook formats are available here: www.etsy.com/shop/cloiste...

On 26th March, CWC's own Alison McLeod will be interviewing Doctor Who writer Rob Shearman. It's free and online! creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/events/curre...

Looks like there are only a couple of tickets left for this event in #London next week. Join us on Wednesday 22nd for a discussion of how and why we write genre fiction, with @robertshearman.bsky.social, Aliya Whiteley and @barryf48.bsky.social! www.waterstones.com/events/writi...

Last few tickets left for this! 6.30pm next Wednesday, 22nd January, at Waterstones Islington. I'll be joined by Aliya Whiteley, Robert Shearman and Barry Forshaw, discussing how we write genre fiction. Bring your questions!

The first season of The Ultimate Horror Anthology podcast wraps tomorrow - join @jasperbark.bsky.social and I in conversation with @robertshearman.bsky.social, talking about Rob's amazing short story The Sixteenth Step: ultimatehorroranthology.podbean.com All episodes free and available for DL.

Still making my way through @sjtownend.bsky.social debut collection SICK GIRL SCREAMS. Why is it taking this long? It's so emotionally raw, so unyielding, that I can only read one story every few days. This books deserves more attention (and includes a great intro by @robertshearman.bsky.social )

Introduced by the great Robert Shearman, please buy my debut horror collection! And just look at that cover art! (Thank you, Daniella Batsheeva!) What a great Christmas stocking filler this book would make for any horror fan! Buy it now - it's what baby Jesus would have wanted.

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Look! It's finally here! After the longest, most painful labour ever, I birthed a book. It's feeding well and gaining weight, but it sleeps with its eyes open and wails like a banshee if I put it down. brigidsgatepress.com/product/sick...

Tickets available now for our Writing Genre Fiction event at Waterstones Islington in the new year! Join me, Robert Shearman, Aliya Whiteley and Barry Forshaw as we discuss the hows, whys, and maybe the whens of writing horror, sci-fi and crime fiction. www.waterstones.com/events/writi...

I finished two books today. One as a writer, and one as a reader. I think both experiences are satisfying, but the lovely thing about finishing a book as a reader is that you can still be surprised by the ending.

November 21. I got excited, thinking this was the shortest day of the year. And that from this point on the sunlight will get longer and the weather will get warmer and we’re on the sure climb towards the Spring. …Then I remembered that’s *December*, we’ve another month of this first. Bugger.

I still feel about BlueSky the way I feel about swimming at the beach. I keep on paddling and then backing off from the merest wave. And I stand on the sand watching all my mates swimming and laughing and playing with huge inflatable ducks, and saying the water is lovely - and I paddle out further.