February 18, 2025
Two new adventures are coming for the Season 2 team!
As well as the return to Doctor Who to our screens this year, two new adventures are coming for the Fifteenth Doctor, played by Ncuti Gatwa, with one featuring upcoming companion Belinda Chandra, played by Varada Sethu.
Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook and Spectral Scream by Hannah Fergesen will be released on 29th May 2025 on hardback and on audiobook (CD and digital). Check out the details and artwork below.
You can pre-order Fear Death By Water here and Spectral Scream here.
Fear Death By Water by Emily Cook
Northumberland, 1838. The TARDIS crash lands on board a sinking steamship. Stranded, the Doctor and the few survivors fight for their lives – while the local lighthouse keeper’s daughter, Grace Darling, risks her life to row to their rescue.
Lauded a heroine, Grace struggles to cope with her new-found fame. But the Doctor senses something else is troubling Grace. She’s been tormented by the terrifying vision she saw out at sea in the storm. There’s a monster in her mind, wrecking ships and stealing the souls of the drowned. And it's real.
Pre-order Fear Death by Water here.
Spectral Scream by Hannah Fergesen
When a psychic shriek for help nearly overwhelms the TARDIS, the Doctor and Belinda track the source to a distant planet. There they find a sentient, telepathic bioship named Adama and ragged colonists descended from the original crew. Adama is dying, and their spectral screams are growing strong enough to kill anyone in the vicinity.
When Adama crashed 100 years ago, it was with a great treasure on board, stolen from the ruthless Gangnax Imperium – technology that could either unite worlds or destroy them. If they are to save the bioship, the Doctor and Belinda must survive suspicious colonists, greedy bounty hunters and military forces determined to reclaim what’s theirs – before Adama’s final death throes destroy them all.
Pre-order Spectral Scream here.
Both titles will be released on hardback and audiobook (Digital and CD) on 29th May, 2025. Spectral Scream will be read by Michelle Asante (who had a brief role in In the Forest of the Night) and Fear Death by Water will be read by Susan Twist (best known to fans as the omnipresent Susan Triad in Ncuti Gatwa’s first season as the Doctor).
About the authors
Emily Cook will be known to fans for organising the 'Doctor Who: Lockdown' initiative in 2020 which saw the likes of David Tennant, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Catherine Tate tweeting to Whovians across the world whilst watching episodes. She has also worked with Big Finish and Apple TV.
Hannah Fergesen is a freelance editor and former literary agent who has represented New York Times bestselling authors and since written their own debut novel, The Infinite Miles, a time-travelling science fiction odyssey and homage to Doctor Who.
Both novels will be released on 29th May 2025. You can pre-order Fear Death By Water here and Spectral Scream here.
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