David J. Howe

David J. Howe
Born	(1961-08-24) 24 August 1961 (age 62)
Occupation	Writer journalist publisher media historian
Language	English
Nationality	British
Subject	Doctor Who, horror
Spouse	Sam Stone ​ (m. 2015)​
Website
www.howeswho.co.uk

David J. Howe is a British writer, journalist, publisher, and media historian.

Biography

David Howe was born on 24 August 1961 and established himself (in the early 1980s) as an authoritative media historian through writing articles for fanzines (notably The Frame) and other publications. In the early 1990s, he began to write the first in-depth critical texts of the British television series Doctor Who, and, as a result, has become closely associated with the show's history.^[1][2] He has written or co-written over thirty titles about the show, and continues to be involved with a variety of publications, often acting as consultant or reviewer.

In particular, Howe collaborated on some of the key texts in

Howe also wrote Dæmos Rising, an original film directed by Keith Barnfarther.^[1] He also wrote a story for the first Virgin Decalog short story collection, his only piece of licensed Doctor Who fiction to be published. He continues to work as co-director of Telos Publishing, which has expanded to publish a wide range of classic and new science fiction stories. In 2011 Howe published talespinning, a collection of short fiction, including several horror stories, Doctor Who fiction and drabbles.^[8][9]

Howe also has one of the largest collections of

• Doctor Who The Sixties (hardback, co-written with Stephen James Walker & Mark Stammers, 1992, Virgin Publishing. Paperback published 1993)
• Doctor Who The Seventies (hardback, co-written with Walker and Stammers, 1994, Virgin Publishing. Paperback published 1995)
• Doctor Who The Eighties (hardback, co-written with Walker and Stammers, 1996, Virgin Publishing. Paperback published 1997)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker & Stammers, 1992, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Sixth Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker & Stammers, 1993, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The First Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker & Stammers, 1994, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker, 1995, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Third Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker, 1996, Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Second Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker & Stammers, 1997 Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who The Handbook: The Seventh Doctor (paperback, co-written with Walker, 1998 Virgin Publishing)
• Doctor Who: Drabble Who (hardback, co-edited with David Wake, 1993, Beccon Publications – collection of 100 short pieces of Doctor Who-related fiction and verse published for charity)
• Doctor Who: Timeframe – The Illustrated History (hardback, 1993, Virgin Publishing – The official 30th anniversary of Doctor Who book. Paperback published 1994)
• Doctor Who: Companions (hardback, co-written with Stammers, 1995, Virgin Publishing. Paperback published 1996)
• Text and photograph co-ordination for Doctor Who 1996 Diary (hardback, 1995 Mallon Publishing, Australia)
• Reflections: The Fantasy Art of Stephen Bradbury (text, limp-back, 1996, Paper Tiger). See, Stephen Bradbury (artist)
• Doctor Who TX File (text for filofax insert book, 1996, BBC Publishing)
• Doctor Who: I Am The Doctor (hardback, co-written with Jon Pertwee, 1996, Virgin Publishing – Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who autobiography)
• Doctor Who: A Book of Monsters (hardback, 1997, BBC Publishing)
• Doctor Who: The Television Companion (paperback, co-written with Walker, 1998, BBC Publishing)
• Howe’s Transcendental Toybox: The Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who Collectibles (paperback, co-written with Arnold T Blumberg, 2000, Telos Publishing)
• The Television Companion: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who (paperback/hardback, co-written with Walker, 2003, Telos Publishing)
• Howe’s Transcendental Toybox: Second Edition: The Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who Collectibles (paperback, co-written with Arnold T Blumberg, 2003, Telos Publishing)
• Howe’s Transcendental Toybox: 2003 Update Edition (paperback, co-written with Arnold T Blumberg, 2004, Telos Publishing)
• The Handbook: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Production of Doctor Who (paperback/hardback, co-written with Walker & Stammers, 2005, Telos Publishing)
• The Target Book: A History of the Target Doctor Who Books (co-written with Tim Neal, paperback, 2007, Telos Publishing)
• talespinning (paperback, 2011, Telos Publishing)

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