'The Adventures After'

Discover what happened next...

The Doctor has had many adventures, visited many planets and made a whole host of friends and enemies.

But if you thought it was all over after the TARDIS doors closed and the time ship dematerialised, you’d be very much mistaken.

Travel back in time to discover the secret beneath the ashes of Pompeii, stand with Susan Foreman as she faces the verge of death and follow Brian Williams as he confronts life without Rory and Amy.

Here are eight tales that give us a glimpse into the worlds you thought you'd left behind...

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'The Verge of Death' by Carole Anne Ford, with Rob Craine and Beth Axford

After their adventures with Marco Polo, the TARDIS crew find themselves under attack from their own ship. The Doctor is strangled by a length of wire from the console, Susan is scalded by the food machine, and the interior temperature shifts by dangerous extremes. Susan experiences visions of her schoolteachers from Gallifrey and Earth, Ping-Cho, the Doctor, and finally, herself; they all encourage Susan to work out that she is under attack from a stowaway in the TARDIS, a young alien entity that once caused Susan to attack Ian with scissors. With help of the Doctor and the TARDIS, Susan uses her reawakened telepathic powers to connect with the creature, causing it to manifest. After a short battle of wits, Susan is able defeat the creature. Safe and sound again, the TARDIS crew plan a holiday…

Notes:
*Featuring the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan

*This story is a sequel to 'The Edge of Destruction' (a.k.a. 'Inside the Spaceship')

*Time-placing: This takes place immediately after 'Marco Polo'

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'The Face of Fear' by Rochana Patel and David N. Smith

Leaving the London Underground tunnels after the Yeti incident, the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are shocked to discover that the TARDIS has gone missing. Pursued by a policeman who has become a shambling, form-shifting monster, the trio make for the safety of their old friend Polly Wright’s house. But when they meet Ben Jackson there too, the Doctor becomes suspicious, even more so when they get the date wrong. Victoria, Ben, Polly and the creature are revealed to be Chameleons, faceless aliens who take on the forms of others, and their bodies revert to their true selves. As the Doctor and Jamie look on, London changes into the Chameleons’ home world, where they meet their friend Zoe. The Doctor finally remembers what has happened: when he, Jamie and Zoe arrived on the Chameleons’ home planet, he decided to help them by creating a simulation of London using his and Jamie’s memories, fed into the TARDIS’ thought-pattern projector. Unfortunately, the plan backfired when the Doctor and Jamie became submerged in the fake reality, causing it to collapse. Pleased that the test Chameleons have taken on some aspects of humanity, the Doctor leaves them to run the simulation machine for themselves; he departs in the TARDIS, intending to check that Jamie and Zoe are really who they say they are after all...

Notes:
*Featuring the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe

*This story is a sequel to 'The Web of Fear'

*Time-placing: This takes place between 'The Invasion' and 'The Krotons'

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'Daemons in Levenshulme' by Paul Magrs

After seeing elderly white witch Olive Hawthorne on television warning about impending doom again, the Doctor and Yaz rush to Manchester in the TARDIS. They meet Ms Hawthorne at the community Recreate Centre and learn all about the recent strange goings-on in Levenshulme. Meanwhile, the local reverend, Ms Magister - Missy in disguise - conducts a black magic ritual with her coven of locals in the basement below; this is the second of three summoning rituals: the last will be tomorrow, on Beltane, when the ancient alien Daemon, Azal, will rise again and grant Missy unlimited power. After the ensuing earthquake subsides, Yaz takes Olive home while the Doctor calls on Missy at the church; but the Doctor’s warnings fall on deaf ears, so she storms off. That night, gargoyles abduct Ms Hawthorne from her house. Realising that Missy is planning to sacrifice the white witch to Azal, the Doctor and Yaz race to her rescue. Following advice from Olive’s cats, and using the sonic screwdriver to track traces of magic, the Doctor and Yaz crash Missy’s party in the penthouse atop the highest skyscraper in the city. As Missy prepares to kill her captive in front of her guests and cultists, Azal steps forward from the crowd - but to Missy’s astonishment, the ancient demon is now a regular-sized, business-suited demon who prefers to deal in money and technology rather than ancient rituals and sacrifices. Bored with Missy’s attempts to order him about, Azal banishes her and the gargoyles to the microcosm where he has languished the last fifty years; he then disperses the party so he can enjoy cocktails and a chat with the Doctor, Yaz and Ms Hawthorne. Come the morning, Azal vanishes - but has he really turned good…?

Notes:
*Featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz

*This story is a sequel to 'The Daemons'

*Time-placing: This takes place between ‘Revolution of the Daleks’ and ‘The Flux’

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'Take Our Breath Away' by Katy Manning

While on an expedition with her husband to investigate fungi growing deep in the African rainforest, a pregnant Jo Grant experiences dreams and hallucinations of her adventures with the Doctor. After the trees around them begin mysteriously falling to the ground, Jo’s relief at seeing a familiar Police Box materialise nearby turns to shock when the Master exits his own TARDIS, disguised as the Doctor’s ship. The renegade Time Lord gloatingly reveals how he is responsible for the recent deforestation and Jo’s dreams, a means to force her into giving him the Doctor's wedding gift: the powerful blue crystal from Metebelis III. When Jo bravely refuses, the Master departs with a final threat against Jo, her unborn children and the Doctor. Jo rejoins her husband Cliff, who is overjoyed at the remarkable restorative effects of the crystal, which quickly repairs the damage the Master had inflicted on the forest ecosystem.

Notes:
*Featuring Jo Jones

*This story is a sequel to 'The Green Death'

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'Harry Sullivan and the Chalice of Vengeance' by Mark Griffiths

The TARDIS takes the Doctor, Sarah and Harry to the Oord-1 Moonbase, where they gatecrash a fancy-dress birthday party thrown by the base director, Krysko Tarpy. Noticing how the holiday resort is suffering from issues with its gravity engines, the Doctor offers to help - only to be arrested for the murder of the base’s Chief Engineer. To avoid the base’s security, Sarah and Harry make for the apartment of the Visitor Centre’s friendly curator, Reedmace Bodd. Unfortunately, they find that Ms Bodd has since been taken over by Kadvah Keggh, the sole survivor of an invading Sycorax spaceship that was destroyed over Earth two centuries before, whose mind was preserved in an ancient soul-chalice uncovered by the museum curator. To exact their vengeance on humanity, Keggh has altered the Moon’s engines, sending it on a collision course with Earth. Learning that the Doctor has escaped and is on his way, Harry and Sarah distract Keggh with the promise of the Time Lord’s TARDIS. The Doctor arrives in the nick of time, and he uses his sonic screwdriver to trap the Sycorax’s soul back in the chalice, freeing Reedmace from their control. Accessing the engines remotely, the Doctor then restores the Moon into its natural orbit. Accompanied by his friends, the Doctor takes the chalice to the Stormcage Facility for incarceration, unaware that he has just ruined Harry’s dinner plans with Reedmace…

Notes:
*Featuring the Fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry

*This story is a sequel to 'The Christmas Invasion'

*Time-placing:

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'The Ashes of Pompeii' by Janelle McCurdy

Having helped Caecilius and his family to safety, the Doctor and Donna are shocked when the TARDIS is taken over and brought back to Pompeii, not long after the volcano exploded. Here they meet a survivor of the cataclysm, a young girl called Ava, digging for something beneath a tree. The Doctor pilots the TARDIS to a cavern beneath, where they find an amnesiac woman holding back a sole-surviving Pyrovile. When the alien invader’s smoke causes Donna and Ava to turn to stone, the Doctor realises that the mysterious woman is a Granite, the embodiment of nature, a creature intrinsically linked to the land who created Pompeii, and whose power was corrupted by the alien invaders. With her memories restored, the girl uses her power over the land to trap the Pyrovile with tree roots, then restores Donna and Ava from their stone forms. With the Pyroville’s power returning, the Granite orders the Doctor, Donna and Ava to flee in the TARDIS before she floods the volcano with water from the Tyrrhenian Sea, destroying everything within. The Doctor takes Ava to Amalfi in the Eighteenth Century, leaving her in the care of friends.

Notes:
*Featuring the Tenth Doctor and Donna

*This story is a sequel to 'The Fires of Pompeii', and takes place immediately after it

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'Aftercare' by Alfie Shaw

Believing his son to be still travelling with Amy and the Doctor, Brian is shaken by a visit from a man claiming to be his adopted grandson, Anthony, bearing an old letter from Rory, released after his death. Given access to UNIT’s Aftercare Division, Brian learns of his son’s life after being sent back to 1940’s Manhattan. As he goes through the stages of grief, Brian’s pleas for UNIT to contact the Doctor and rescue his son are denied, and he starts to hallucinate visions of Rory. When Anthony lies to his parents’ friends, attributing Amy and Rory’s disappearance to a car accident, Brian even comes to doubt his grandson’s claims about his own family, which includes Brian’s great-grandson. However, as Brian works through his grief, he comes to appreciate the love and support Anthony offers and accepts the offer to visit his grandson’s family in New York. When UNIT allows access to the Doctor’s space-time telegraph, Brian gains closure by sending a letter to the Time Lord. On the night before Anthony returns to his family, he and Brian receive a visit from River Song, who recounts tales of her parents’ adventures, so the good they did lives on.

Notes:
*Featuring Brian Williams
*This story is a sequel to 'The Angels Take Manhattan'

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'Save the Earth' by Beth Axford

Simmy Moor meets a strange, angry man investigating recent disappearances in the Shoreditch area. When Simmy tells him that her best friend Ed recently disappeared in the area he is searching, the man - the Doctor - informs her that Ed was killed by clothes - or more accurately, a multitude of miniscule aliens inhabiting the ethylene glycol within the polyester, the effect of which cooked the missing people to death. Agreeing to help him track Ed’s killers, dubbed ‘Ethenes’, Simmy accompanies him in investigating the three locations where victims vanished, in particular an old junkyard on Totter’s Lane. By building a pile of junk, they attract the Ethenes, enabling the Doctor to trap them inside the infinite pockets of his coat. Simmy then bravely shoves the coat through a tear in space-time, sending the aliens back to their home in Sagittarius B2.

Notes:
*Featuring the Twelfth Doctor

*This story is a sequel to 'Kill the Moon'

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Publication Date:
23rd October 2025

Notes:
*A BBC/Penguin Children's Book