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Puffin’s eleven ebook series concludes this month with an 11th Doctor tale penned by The Doctor’s Wife and Nightmare in Steel author Neil Gaiman.

The multi-award winning writer, who was Master of Ceremonies for the recent World Fantasy Convention (where he advised all present old and new to write what the f*** they want, since no-one knows what the state of publishing will be in years to come) follows a succession of high-profile children’s authors: Eoin Colfer, Michael Scott, Marcus Sedgwick, Philip Reeve, Patrick Ness, Richelle Mead, Malorie Blackman, Alex Scarrow, Charlie Higson and Derek Landy.

Talking about his new story, Gaiman said,  ‘Nothing O’Clock stars the Eleventh Doctor, the Matt Smith Doctor, with Amy Pond as his companion. I set it somewhere during the first season of Matt Smith, mostly on Earth, in our time now and in 1984, but also somewhere else, a very, very long time ago. I had never created an original monster for Doctor Who and really enjoyed getting to create a creepy Doctor Who monster of the kind that we haven’t quite seen before… I hope that the Kin will get out there and occasionally give people nightmares. And that you will be worried if a man in a rabbit mask comes to your door and tries to buy your house.’

Nothing O’clock will be released as an ebook on 21st November (£1.99). A paperback anthology (£12.99) and an audio download collection (£14.99), Doctor Who: 11 Doctors, 11 Stories, will also publish the same day.