Vermin Publishing
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| Zine Publisher | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Vermin Publishing |
| Contact: | Tom Truszkowski and Eva Jacobus |
| Type: | Zine publisher |
| Fandoms: | Doctor Who |
| Status: | inactive |
| Other: | c. 1990s - 2001? |
| URL: | http://web.mit.edu:80/ejacobus/www/vermin/v-home.html (via Wayback) early site? |
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Vermin Publishing was a Doctor Who zine publisher. They published The Fake Missing Adventures, The Valeyard Adventures, Triskadecalogaphobia, and Make Your Own Mistakes.
Vermin Publishing has no license of any kind to publish Fake Doctor Who books of any sort, but we get sick kicks from it, so we do it anyway. Production of Fake Doctor Who books falls into two categories: fiction and non-fiction. Doctor Who fiction in turn takes four forms: Valeyard Adventures; Missing Adventures; Make Your Own Mistake books; and Triskadecalog short story collections.
The Valeyard Adventures
The Valeyard Adventures are original novels; that is, not based on specific TV stories. Launched in 1996 to annoy those who decided to be offensively stuffy about Doctor Who, they are intended to carry on from where those stick-in-the-muds left off. The first Valeyard Adventure, Catharsis of Spurious Morality, follows on (albeit not immediately) from the final episode of Trial of a Timelord. The success of the series led to the Valeyard Adventures having its own merchandise line.
List of Works
(All are available on the website with covers.)
- 1. "The Catharsis of Spurious Morality" by Tom Truszkowski
- 2. "Who is the Valeyard" by Viv Prince
- 3. "The Art of Futility" by Lorraine C. Attenborough
- 4. "Glitch!" by Winston Faron
The Fake Missing Adventures
The Missing Adventures, original stories featuring old Doctors, began in 1995, and are being published when we feel like it. They are intended to utterly fail to fit in the gaps between TV stories, and as such are written in an obscene parody of the style of the era in which they are set.
List of Works
(All works available online with covers.)
- 1. "A Few More Ghosts for N-Space" by Tom Truszkowski
- 2. "Banishment of the Daleks" by Paul Cornell
- 3. "V is for Valeyard" by Samuel Smith
- 4. "Otherwhen" by Robert Kellogg Bland
- 5. "Ogrons R Us" Dave Baker & Bob Martin
- 6. "Transcience" by Robert Kellogg Bland
- 7. "Devolution" by J. Robert Dobbs
- 8. "The CSO Experiment" by John Smith
- 9. "The Balloon Farm" by Cranston Snord
- 10. "Period Drama of the Cybermen" by Matt Kimpton
- 11. "The Aubergine of Doom" by Winston Faron
- 12. "The Abomination" by John Doe
- 13. "In the Palace of Khufu" by Lorraine C. Attenborough
- 14. "Anagram" by Lyman Phestere
- 15. "The Creature from the Pitt" by Matt Kimpton
- 16. "The Master Takes Manhattan" by Matt Kimpton
- 17. "The Phantom of the Optera" by Matt Kimpton
Make Your Own Mistakes
Make Your Own Mistake Books give you, the reader, the chance to prove that you're a complete idiot. They also provide us, the publishing company, with the chance to kill you violently over and over again. This allows both parties to indulge in their hobbies.
List of Works
(Sample available to read on the website.)
- "The Nephroid of Freeth"
Triskadecalogaphobia
Until recently, there was no scope for the publication of Fake Doctor Who short fiction, and there still isn't. But with the forthcoming resounding success of the Triskadecalog collection, it is likely that short stories based on Doctor Who characters will become a regular feature of Vermin's publishing schedule. However, the procedure for submission of such stories is not straightforward, which shouldn't surprise you.
List of Stories
(All works are available to read online.)
- Doc5: "April Fool" by Elizabeth Truszkowski
- Doc6: "The TARDIS Ate My Socks!" by Alden Bates
- Doc7: "The Doctor Saves The Universe, Again" by Trina L. Short
- Doc8: "Kidnapped!" by Winston Faron
- Doc10: "The H-Bomb Test" by Tom Truszkowski
- Doc13: "Pointless Weirdness" by Robert Kellogg Bland