Details for the eighth release in Puffin's e-short series celebrating fifty years of Doctor Who have been released. This month's story, Spore, will be written by Alex Scarrow, author of the TimeRiders series of childrens books.

In a small town in the Nevada desert, an alien pathogen has reduced the entire population to a seething mass of black slime. When the Eighth Doctor arrives, he realises this latest threat to humanity is horrifyingly familiar – it is a virus which almost annihilated his entire race, the Time Lords…

The ebook edition of Spore is released on the 23rd August, priced at £1.99. The ebook will be available on various formats, including Amazon Kindle. A paperback anthology of all eleven stories in the series, titled the Doctor Who Anniversary Anthology, will be released on 23rd November 2013 priced at £7.99.