Available now from celebrated author Jonathan Barnes (The Somnambulist, The Domino Men) is the sixth and final interconnected tale of spine-chilling terror to disquiet and entertain. SKAYNE – A series of six short ghost stories by Jonathan Barnes 6: The Ground Outside Now. When widowed ex-actor Peter Stockman rents a house in the countryside to nurse his grief
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News – SKAYNE 4 and 5 – ghost story eBooks (EPUB) – available now
SKAYNE is a series of six short interconnected ghost stories by celebrated author Jonathan Barnes. 4: GH19 1958. British Intelligence agent Anthony Guist has been despatched to a guesthouse in the small seaside town of Chiding-on-the-Sands to meet a Soviet defector. Coolly unflappable until today and a dedicated sceptic, he is about to encounter a very different
Continue reading »News – SKAYNE 3. The Last Constitutional eBook (EPUB) published today
SKAYNE 3. The Last Constitutional is the third of six interconnected tales of spine-chilling terror by celebrated author Jonathan Barnes (The Somnambulist, The Domino Men). Summer. 1927. Ex-pat Freddy Illingsworth, in flight from England since the 1890s and now resident in Athens, takes a long walk every day at noon. Growing old and consumed by loneliness, he
Continue reading »News – Toby Hadoke interviews the legend that is Russell T Davies…
DOCTOR WHO: TOBY HADOKE’S WHO’S ROUND 50 (MARCH #10) http://www.bigfinish.com/podcasts/v/doctor-who-toby-hadoke-s-who-s-round-50-march-10 It’s a new Big Finish Productions Who’s Round – Toby Hadoke’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary quest to get an anecdote about every single episode of Doctor Who to date. In this 50th instalment, Toby makes quite a big dent in his task… Frankly this guy has
Continue reading »News – Tom Baker at 80
In January 2014, Tom Baker celebrated his 80th birthday. On March 19th, Tom sat down with Nicholas Briggs to look back over his 80 amazing years – his youth, his early acting career, his great success with Doctor Who and beyond… and his return to his most famous role with Big Finish. This candid and intimate interview
Continue reading »News – Sci-Fi Bulletin reviews SKAYNE 2. The Tempelstone Gate
The malevolent influence of Godfrey Skayne stretches to a school immediately after the Great War… Jonathan Barnes’ sequence of ghost stories continues with this insidiously creepy tale which moves the story forward to the early part of the 20th century. Once again it’s a first person narrative, with a slowly-burning claustrophobic feel as the events
Continue reading »News – Cardiff Film and Comic Con, 1 & 2 March 2014
Cardiff Film and Comic Con is back at the Motorpoint Arena on Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd March 2014. Building on the success of the first Cardiff Film and Comic Con, there will be stars from TV, Film and Comics including Doctor Who’s Paul McGann, Bernard Cribbins, Sophie Aldred, Katy Manning and Nicholas Briggs, as
Continue reading »News – SKAYNE 2. The Tempelstone Gate published today
The second of six brand new, interconnected tales of spine-chilling terror from celebrated author Jonathan Barnes (The Somnambulist, The Domino Men) is available NOW ! SKAYNE 2: The Tempelstone Gate – eBook (MOBI or EPUB). It is December, 1917. As war drags on in Europe, damaged ex-soldier Robert Black is summoned to his old school in the
Continue reading »News – Nick receives the BBC Audio Drama 2014 award
Judged by Viv Gardner and Sofie Mason, Doctor Who – Dark Eyes: The Great War won the BBC Audio Drama award for Best Online or Non-Broadcast Drama. This is what the judges said: People’s history, fantasy and high drama. The winning entry was outstanding in every respect: a complex, gripping narrative made visible through three-dimensional characters in
Continue reading »News – WINNER ! Doctor Who, Dark Eyes wins BBC Audio Drama Award !
Doctor Who – Dark Eyes: The Great War wins the award for Best Online or Non-Broadcast Drama, 2014. Written and directed by Nick, Dark Eyes stars Eighth Doctor Paul McGann & Ruth Bradley. The Doctor and Molly find themselves thrown headlong into a series of dangerous and terrifying adventures, with the dreaded Daleks never far
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