After reading through the Heroes and Monsters collection for the Heroes and Monsters Thread, I wanted to go through another short story collection, so here we are!
It’s seemingly more popular than the Heroes and Monsters collection, so maybe there’s some people on here who’ve already got experience with these to comment on them!
I read this one a number of years ago. It was an alright read, but I can’t remember much of it any more. There was altogether too much of the Doctor for my liking, and most were just rewrites of classic Germanic fairy tales anyway.
I tend to have trouble with the New Who short story collections in general—they never have the variety and depth of the Big Finish and BBC Short Trips books.
That being said, I have loved Dave Rudden’s work! 12 Angels Weeping was an excellent book.
I have both versions of this too - the anthology and the set of little books (which were a gift from a colleague and look gorgeous).
A great start to the collection, this is exactly the sort of thing I expected from doctor who themed fairy tales. Children facing monsters, a lighthearted and warm start, it gets spooky and dangerous in the middle, and a twist end that’s bittersweet and has an air of nostalgia.
The only thing missing is a moral, but I guess ‘Avoid the weeping angles at all costs’ is good enough (plus there’s a lot of fairy tales without them that are just there to spook kids.
Honestly, this doesn’t even feel like they tried to make it a fairy tale (at least past the first page), they just decided to take the very basic premise of sleeping beauty, and tell a new story around it.
It’s still well written enough and written in that sort of style that it could probably be higher, but like, you can’t just write your own story about the wirrn and call it a fairy tale, much less a ‘Time Lord’ fairy tale. Why are the Time Lords telling this to their young? It’s better than 90% of other things things I’ve put at 5/10, but I don’t think I can give it higher because of the framing device.
There isn’t yet, but hey, maybe we can bully Shauny into it /hj
Is there a badge for getting shauny to make a badge?
If there were I should already have it for ██████ ███: ████████
The campaign starts here!
Leave him alone! He has a new design and new features to finish! Way more important than adding stupid badges no one is going to get (and definitely not me…)!
See this is why I shouldn’t relent and make badges, I end up spending all my time making even more badges 
I’ll add one at some point… Any ideas for the title? (Prefer interesting / fun titles than just “Time Lord Fairy Tales”)
Once Upon a Time…
Some potential for confusion there…
Oh yadda yadda you with all your common sense and reason…
Oo I have this book at home somewhere but I think I only read one story and forgot about it 
Once upon a Timelord Fairytale😂
How about ‘We are all stories in the end’ from the publisher’s summary
I like it but it’s a big long… 
“Goodnight, Time Lord”?
Not based on anything from the stories, but I think it captures the vibes
‘Goodnight, Time Tot’ would suit the title more, I think
