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PHIL FENERTY: Behind Bars
In a Liverpool pub, impossible crimes are being planned. As part of UNIT's investigation, Sarah Jane Smith starts pulling pints and listening in to drinkers' conversations. Who and what is behind the crimes, and if she can uncover the truth, how deep into their secrets must she dive?

MATT TOVEY: The Enfield Poltergeist
In an ordinary house in an ordinary street, owned by a perfectly ordinary family, something extraordinary - and dreadful - is taking place. Fresh from her travels with the Doctor, Sarah is called in to report on the inexplicable happenings in 284 Green Street, a once happy home. Furniture moves of its own accord, the dead are talking through terrified children, and before she knows it Sarah is caught up in a battle for her very soul against the greatest enemy of all...

ROB NISBET: The Fourth Wall
Sarah Jane has encountered real monsters; her friend Valerie creates fake monsters and scenarios for films in her virtual reality studio. When they meet-up, Sarah discovers that Valerie has an illness which confines her to her studio. Not too bad a confinement if you can manipulate a virtual environment around you – but there are always the monsters.

RUSSELL MCGEE: The Cocoon of Despair
We all have things that we regret in life but how much more regret is there for a time traveler? For decades, Bradley Woods has been haunted by the figure of a weeping black lady – a banshee. Sarah Jane Smith soon learns that the legendary Banshee is much more than myth and is, in fact, an alien – a Showery Wraith which feeds on the Empathic energy of its victims. Without the Doctor or anyone else to save her, Sarah is forced to relive her darkest moments – will she be able to free herself from the deadly cocoon of despair?

GRACE HADDON: A Murder of Gulls
One year after the Doctor left Sarah behind, she and Harry are enjoying a much-needed holiday in Blackpool when they are attacked by a flock of red-eyed seagulls. Sarah is convinced that something alien is going on, but can they get to the bottom of the mystery before the seagulls strike again?

MARK GIVENS: A Lack of Imagination
Sarah Jane Smith has been staying with her Aunt Lavinia and her ward Brendan Richards, while trying to get her life and career back on track after a rough holiday season spent thwarting local homicidal cultists. But with her family and friends suffering sudden unexplainable episodes of strange behavior – coupled with her own curiously intense dreams persisting night after night – Sarah must once again put aside the nascent stirrings of the novel she had been working on and, with the help of K-9, Brendon, and company, investigate the latest bizarre affliction to endanger her new home in the tiny English village of Moreton Harwood.

NICK WALTERS: Wings of the Owlman
Sarah Jane Smith goes to Cornwall to investigate sightings of the Owlman, a terrifying apparition which has claimed the sanity of those who have encountered it. Teaming up with famed monster hunter Dr McLeish, Sarah must brave her own fears to get to the bottom of the mystery.

IAN WHEELER: Lost Dog
When Sarah Jane returns home from the Death Zone on Gallifrey, she finds that her greatest fear has come true - K9 is missing. Life without a girl’s best friend just isn’t any fun and she’ll need to use every means at her disposal to find him. The police aren’t much help and even an old friend doesn’t have time to assist her. And then she receives a telephone call from a stranger whose intentions are clearly not honorable.

JOHNSTONE MCGLUCKIAN: The Second Hatch
In 1984 Sarah Jane Smith's relationship with UNIT soured when the mystery of a grizzly murder and an alien hatch in the north of England went unsolved.

In 1993 a new, identical hatch has appeared on a remote southern island and UNIT have called in a hesitant Sarah Jane Smith to help solve the mystery at long last. History is in danger of repeating itself and another murder may just be the start of a terrible series of consequences.

Sarah Jane Smith is about to experience the most terrifying night of her life, facing an enemy she can barely comprehend - her own anger.

KEVIN MASON: Night of the Ravers
Six-year-old psychic Lyric O'Dell has been kidnapped from her parents' home, and signs indicate that the abduction might be alien in nature. Sarah Jane joins forces with illusionist Jimi Ducharme to rescue Lyric, and their search leads them to a nightmarish rave party that is truly out of this world.

SIMON BUCHER-JONES: Sarah Jane Smith and The Cliffside Communion
Journalist Sarah Jane Smith investigates a remote religious community on the Isle of Wight that refuses to evacuate despite deadly landslides threatening their homes. Led by the fanatical Reverend Baxter, the group believes they will be saved by divine intervention, but Sarah uncovers signs of a far more disturbing force at work—possibly alien, possibly ancient. As the cliff collapses and the community vanishes in a mysterious celestial event, the truth is buried for decades—until survivors begin to reappear in modern-day London, sparking questions about time, memory, and what really happened on the cliff's edge.

RICK CROSS: Isle of Dogs
It's a dog's life for Sarah Jane Smith and her friends Rani and Clyde, when they find themselves -- and everyone else in Britain -- transformed into furry, four-legged form. Who or what could have caused this chaos? Can Sarah Jane solve the mystery and reverse the condition before the dogcatchers hunt them down? And will Clyde ever stop smelling things?

MICAH K SPURLING: The Bronze Bishop
At the Synod on Fellowship, churches disfellowshipped in the bloodiest days of the English Reformation will be welcomed back into the arms of Mother Church. But all is not well in Canterbury Cathedral: the noise of the modern world has awakened something far more ancient, and now it’s up to Sarah Jane Smith and her friends to defeat the power of the Three-in-One.

DANIEL TESSIER: Remembrance
Strange things are happening in the village of Limpton-on-Blackwater. Ghosts from the past and visions of the future. In 1984, Sarah Jane Smith investigates these uncanny rumours. In 2024, Luke Smith and his friends do the same. Something has bridged these two times and could have terrible consequences. Past and future must work together to save the day, but how will Luke cope with seeing his mum again?

Plus an all-new original comic strip Widow's Wail written and drawn by Mark Horrocks
Preston, Lancashire, 1984, Sarah Jane accompanies Paranormal Investigator Matt Thorne to Sainsbury Hall where they investigate the escalating activity of an infamous spectre known as "The Widow in White". As the witching hour falls on the manor house they are drawn into a series of dark events that lead to a startling revelation.

Including essays and articles by Mike Loschiavo, Grant Bull, Chris McAuley & Hamish Crawford.

Sarah Jane Smith: Roving Reporter II is edited by Bob Furnell, Hamish Crawford & James Silvester.

Coming Fall 2025
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