Howe, David J

Entry updated 10 July 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic.

(1961-    ) UK author and critic, a contributing editor of Starburst 1984-2001, publishing various essays and reviews in that magazine. Howe is best known for his many nonfiction Ties to Doctor Who (1963-current), beginning with Doctor Who: The Sixties (1992), shortly followed by Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor (1992), both written with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker; Howe is an acknowledged authority on the Doctor Who universe. Also of note is Howe's work as editorial director of the small press Telos Publishing, which received a 2006 World Fantasy Award in the special non-professional category and has also won two British Fantasy Awards as best small press in 2010 and 2011.

Howe has also published some fiction [see Checklist below], beginning with "The Dream" in the Flash Fiction compilation Drabble Who? (anth 1993) edited by himself and David B Wake, and including three novellas set in venues spun off from the Doctor Who universe. Shorter fiction, mostly Horror, is assembled in Talespinning (coll 2011). [DRL]

David J Howe

born UK: 24 August 1961

works

• Time Hunter: Child of Time (Bromley, Kent: Telos Publishing, 2007) with George Mann [novella: tie to the Doctor Who: Time Hunter Shared World: pb/Matthew Laznicka]
• Daemos Rising (Bromley, Kent: Telos Publishing, 2020) [novella: "based on the popular spin off from TV's Doctor Who": pb/photographic]
• Daemos Rising (Bromley, Kent: Telos Publishing, 2021) [novella: "based on the popular spin off from TV's Doctor Who": pb/]

collections

• Talespinning (Bromley, Kent: Telos Publishing, 2011) [coll: pb/Bryan Talbot]

nonfiction

series

Doctor Who: The Years

• Doctor Who: The Sixties (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1992) with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Years: hb/]
• Doctor Who: The Seventies (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1994) with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Years: hb/]
• Doctor Who: The Eighties (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1996) with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Years: hb/]

Doctor Who: The Handbook

• Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Fourth Doctor (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1992) with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Handbook: pb/Alister Pearson]
• Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Sixth Doctor (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1993) with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Handbook: pb/Alister Pearson]
• Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1994) with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Handbook: pb/Alister Pearson]
• Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1995) with Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Handbook: pb/Alister Pearson]
• Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Third Doctor (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1996) with Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Handbook: pb/Alister Pearson]
• Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Second Doctor (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1997) with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Handbook: pb/Alister Pearson]
• Doctor Who: The Handbook: The Seventh Doctor (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1998) with Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Handbook: pb/Alister Pearson]
• The Handbook – The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Production of Doctor Who (Bromley, Kent: Telos Publishing, 2005) with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: The Handbook: pb/]
  • The Handbook – The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Production of Doctor Who: Volume One (Bromley, Kent: Telos Publishing, 2016) with Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: cut from the above: Doctor Who: The Handbook: pb/]

Doctor Who

• Timeframe: The Illustrated History (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1993) [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/]
• Companions (London: Virgin/Doctor Who Books, 1995) with Mark Stammers [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: hb/]
• Doctor Who (London: BBC Books, 1996) [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/]
• A Book of Monsters (London: BBC Books, 1997) [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/]
• The Television Companion: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who (London: BBC Worldwide, 1998) with Stephen James Walker [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/]
  • The Television Companion (Bromley, Kent: Telos Publishing, 2013) [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: rev vt of the above: Doctor Who: hb/]
  • • The Television Companion: Volume One (Bromley, Kent: Telos Publishing, 2013) [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: cut from the above, covering First to Third Doctors: Doctor Who: pb/]
    • The Television Companion: Volume Two (Bromley, Kent: Telos Publishing, 2013) [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: cut from the above, covering Fourth to Eighth Doctors: Doctor Who: pb/]
• Howe's Transcendental Toybox (Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2000) with Arnold T Blumberg [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/photomontage]
  • Howe's Transcendental Toybox: Second Edition (Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2003) with Arnold T Blumberg [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: much exp vt of the above: Doctor Who: pb/Nathan Skreslet]
    • Doctor Who Toybox (Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2012) with Arnold T Blumberg [nonfiction: online: recast and further exp vt of the above: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: na/]
• Then and Now: Volume One (Tolworth, Surrey: David J Howe, 2015) [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/]
• Then and Now: Volume Two (Tolworth, Surrey: David J Howe, 2015) [nonfiction: tie to Doctor Who: Doctor Who: pb/]

works as editor

• Drabble Who? (Harold Wood, Essex: Beccon Publications, 1993) with David B Wake [anth: Doctor Who: Drabble: hb/Paul Vyse]
• F20 (Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire: Enigmatic Press/BFS Publications, 2000) with L H Maynard and M P N Sims [anth: pb/Bob Covington]
• F20 Two (Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire: Enigmatic Press/BFS Publications, 2001) with L H Maynard and M P N Sims [anth: pb/Bob Covington]
• Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips (Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2001) [anth: pb/Nathan Skreslet]
• Full Fathom Forty (place not found: BFS Publications, 2011) [anth: pb/Bob Eggleton]
• Tales from the Weekend (Tolworth, Surrey: Telos Publishing, 2017) [anth: pb/Steve Crisp]

links

• David J Howe
• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

previous versions of this entry

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