Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
A Big Hand for the Doctor (By: Eoin Colfer)
Buy on Amazon2013
The Beast of Babylon (By: Charlie Higson)
Buy on Amazon2013
The Nameless City (By: Michael Scott)
Buy on Amazon2013
The Spear of Destiny (By: Marcus Sedgwick)
Buy on Amazon2013
The Roots of Evil (By: Philip Reeve)
Buy on Amazon2013
Tip of the Tongue (By: Patrick Ness)
Buy on Amazon2013
Something Borrowed: Sixth Doctor (By: Eoin Colfer,Richelle Mead)
Buy on Amazon2013
The Ripple Effect (By: Malorie Blackman)
Buy on Amazon2013
Spore (By: Alex Scarrow)
Buy on Amazon2013
The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage (By: Derek Landy)
Buy on Amazon2013
Nothing O'Clock
Buy on Amazon2013
Lights Out (By: Holly Black)
Buy on Amazon2014
Ghastly Beyond Belief
Buy on Amazon1985
Gaslight & Ghosts
Buy on Amazon1988
Drabble II: Double Century
Buy on Amazon1990
Now We Are Sick
Buy on Amazon1991
The Weerde, Book 1
Buy on Amazon1992
The Mammoth Book of Vampires
Buy on Amazon1992
Touch Wood
Buy on Amazon1993
Snow White, Blood Red
Buy on Amazon1993
The Weerde, Book 2
Buy on Amazon1993
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men / The Mammoth Book of Werewolves
Buy on Amazon1994
Seventh Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1994
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
Buy on Amazon1995
Giant Book of Fantasy Tales
Buy on Amazon1996
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7
Buy on Amazon1996
The Sandman: Book of Dreams
Buy on Amazon1996
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon1996
Dark Terrors 3
Buy on Amazon1997
Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
Buy on Amazon1998
Dark Terrors 4
Buy on Amazon1998
Legends II: Dragon, Sword, and King
Buy on Amazon1998
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle
Buy on Amazon1998
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10
Buy on Amazon1999
Bangs & Whimpers
Buy on Amazon1999
Silver Birch, Blood Moon
Buy on Amazon1999
Dark Detectives
Buy on Amazon1999
Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower
Buy on Amazon2000
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #11
Buy on Amazon2000
Tails of Wonder and Imagination
Buy on Amazon2001
Bento: Story Art Box
Buy on Amazon2001
Fourteenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2001
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature
Buy on Amazon2002
Keep Out The Night
Buy on Amazon2002
9-11, Volume 2
Buy on Amazon2002
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
Buy on Amazon2002
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best I
Buy on Amazon2002
Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores
Buy on Amazon2002
The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
Buy on Amazon2003
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 14
Buy on Amazon2003
It Was a Dark and Silly Night...
Buy on Amazon2003
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2003
Shadows Over Baker Street
Buy on Amazon2003
The Mammoth Book of New Terror
Buy on Amazon2004
New Magics
Buy on Amazon2004
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventeenth Annual Collection
Buy on Amazon2004
The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
Buy on Amazon2004
Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales
Buy on Amazon2004
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15
Buy on Amazon2004
Year's Best Fantasy 5
Buy on Amazon2005
Best New Horror 16
Buy on Amazon2005
Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror
Buy on Amazon2006
Fantasy: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition
Buy on Amazon2006
Big Fat Little Lit
Buy on Amazon2006
Wizards / Dark Alchemy
Buy on Amazon2007
Brothers & Beasts
Buy on Amazon2007
The British Invasion, Volume 1
Buy on Amazon2007
The Living Dead
Buy on Amazon2008
Best New Horror 19
Buy on Amazon2008
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2009
Buy on Amazon2008
The Best Of Tharg's Future Shocks
Buy on Amazon2008
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead
Buy on Amazon2009
Best New Horror 20
Buy on Amazon2009
Smoke and Mirrors
Buy on Amazon2009
Ravens in the Library
Buy on Amazon2009
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance
Buy on Amazon2009
Half-Minute Horrors
Buy on Amazon2009
Hellbound Hearts
Buy on Amazon2009
Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology
Buy on Amazon2010
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror
Buy on Amazon2010
Stories: All-New Tales
Buy on Amazon2010
The End of the World: Stories of the Apocalypse
Buy on Amazon2010
Werewolves and Shape Shifters: Encounters with the Beasts Within
Buy on Amazon2010
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
Buy on Amazon2010
Zombies: The Recent Dead
Buy on Amazon2010
Songs of Love and Death
Buy on Amazon2010
Visitants
Buy on Amazon2010
Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead
Buy on Amazon2011
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume 5
Buy on Amazon2011
Teeth: Vampire Tales
Buy on Amazon2011
Fables from the Fountain
Buy on Amazon2011
Happily Ever After
Buy on Amazon2011
The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons
Buy on Amazon2011
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2011
Buy on Amazon2011
The Urban Fantasy Anthology
Buy on Amazon2011
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2011 Edition
Buy on Amazon2011
Demons: Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed
Buy on Amazon2011
A Study in Sherlock
Buy on Amazon2011
The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012
Buy on Amazon2011
The Recent Weird
Buy on Amazon2011
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
Buy on Amazon2011
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
Buy on Amazon2012
Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful
Buy on Amazon2012
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2012
Buy on Amazon2012
Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury
Buy on Amazon2012
Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron
Buy on Amazon2012
Ghosts: Recent Hauntings
Buy on Amazon2012
Psychos
Buy on Amazon2012
The Book of Cthulhu II
Buy on Amazon2012
All Star Future Shocks
Buy on Amazon2013
Weird Detectives
Buy on Amazon2013
Unnatural Creatures
Buy on Amazon2013
Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013
Buy on Amazon2013
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2013 Edition
Buy on Amazon2013
Shadows of the New Sun
Buy on Amazon2013
Selected Shorts: Behaving Badly
Buy on Amazon2013
Fearie Tales
Buy on Amazon2013
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013
Buy on Amazon2013
Best New Horror 24
Buy on Amazon2013
Mister October, Volume I: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala
Buy on Amazon2013
Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories
Buy on Amazon2013
Best New Horror 25
Buy on Amazon2014
OxCrimes: 27 Killer Stories from the Cream of Crimewriters
Buy on Amazon2014
Lovecraft's Monsters
Buy on Amazon2014
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Six
Buy on Amazon2014
Rogues
Buy on Amazon2014
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 2014 Edition
Buy on Amazon2014
Zombies: More Recent Dead
Buy on Amazon2014
Futuredaze 2: Reprise
Buy on Amazon2014
Doctor Who: 12 Doctors, 12 Stories
Buy on Amazon2014
Fantasy For Good: A Charitable Anthology
Buy on Amazon2014
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep
Buy on Amazon2015
Shadow Show: Stories In Celebration of Ray Bradbury
Buy on Amazon2015
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
Buy on Amazon2015
Unidentified Funny Objects 4
Buy on Amazon2015
Gutted
Buy on Amazon2016
Darker Terrors 7
Buy on Amazon2016
Street Magicks
Buy on Amazon2016
First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner
Buy on Amazon2016
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eight
Buy on Amazon2016
Last Night, a Superhero Saved My Life
Buy on Amazon2016
Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold
Buy on Amazon2016
Here I Stand: Stories That Speak For Freedom
Buy on Amazon2016
Best New Horror 27
Buy on Amazon2017
The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories
Buy on Amazon2017
The 2017 Rhysling Anthology
Buy on Amazon2017
Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders
Buy on Amazon2017
2001: An Odyssey in Words
Buy on Amazon2018
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories
Buy on Amazon2018
Fantastic Tales of Terror
Buy on Amazon2018
The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories
Buy on Amazon2019
Doctor Who: Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories
Buy on Amazon2019
Mythic Journeys
Buy on Amazon2019
Terrifying Tales to Tell at Night
Buy on Amazon2019
Dark Tides
Buy on Amazon2019
The Best of Uncanny
Buy on Amazon2019
War on Christmas
Buy on Amazon2020
Fight of the Century
Buy on Amazon2020
Edited By
Buy on Amazon2020
Adventures in Lockdown
Buy on Amazon2020
Relics, Wrecks and Ruins
Buy on Amazon2021
The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen
Buy on Amazon2021
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
Buy on Amazon2022
Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
Buy on Amazon2022
Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich
Buy on Amazon2022
Uncanny Magazine Issue 50: January-February 2023
Buy on Amazon2023
Eclectic Dreams
Buy on Amazon2023
Twice Cursed
Buy on Amazon2023
Ink and Daggers
Buy on Amazon2023
Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering
Buy on Amazon2024
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts series is publication order: 1. A Big Hand for the Doctor (By: Eoin Colfer) (2013), 2. The Beast of Babylon (By: Charlie Higson) (2013), 3. The Nameless City (By: Michael Scott) (2013), 4. The Spear of Destiny (By: Marcus Sedgwick) (2013), 5. The Roots of Evil (By: Philip Reeve) (2013), and 165 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts series by Neil Gaiman contains 170 books. The series began in 2013 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts series is written by Neil Gaiman. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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