Doctor Who: Shirley Jackson and the Chaos Box

Author: Doctor Who

Reading age: from c 8 years

Published on 12 June 2025 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (BBC Children's Books) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Icons Series' series.

*The Fifteenth Doctor meets a literary legend in the third of three brand-new novellas starring inspiring characters from history.*The best stories should never be unwritten…When a strange signal echoes through time to the heart of the TARDIS, the Doctor follows it to the home of Shirley Jackson.

But the strangeness deepens when they find a sinister figure sowing chaos and discord with the use of a glowing box – encouraging a crowd to murderous deeds.

Catapulted back to Shirley Jackson’s own era by the TARDIS, the Doctor (with the help of the time-struck author) must discover the origins of the box, and the terrible power that it wields . . .