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* SignatureStyle: Loves taking absurd scenarios and using them to tell surprisingly raw and human stories. A favoured setting of his is a WorldLimitedToThePlot based upon genre cliches, typically going hand-and-hand hand in hand with another of his favourite tropes, the GroundhogDayLoop.
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His style is considered to be rather difficult to define, blending the mundane and absurd such that you’re not sure where one ends and the other begins. What’s weirder than a story about a man who goes to hell and is forced to be roommates with Adolf Hitler’s pet dog? A story with that premise, that actually has the reader emotionally invested in the characters! He also has a propensity for taking anything and everything UpToEleven. What’s more horrific than a story about two year old becoming pregnant through divine conception? [[spoiler:Her foetus also being pregnant!]] His controversial early work, Easy Laughter, a Christmas story, starts off as a fairly BlackComedy, but nomoreso than the average sitcom that runs on CringeComedy, but eventually reveals itself to set in a world with a very, ''very'' [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust twisted spin]] on YouMeanXmas.
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His style is considered to be rather difficult to define, blending the mundane and absurd such that you’re not sure where one ends and the other begins. What’s weirder than a story about a man who goes to hell and is forced to be roommates with Adolf Hitler’s pet dog? A story with that premise, that actually has the reader emotionally invested in the characters! He also has a propensity for taking anything and everything UpToEleven.up to eleven. What’s more horrific than a story about two year old becoming pregnant through divine conception? [[spoiler:Her foetus also being pregnant!]] His controversial early work, Easy Laughter, a Christmas story, starts off as a fairly BlackComedy, but nomoreso than the average sitcom that runs on CringeComedy, but eventually reveals itself to set in a world with a very, ''very'' [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust twisted spin]] on YouMeanXmas.
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* WombHorror: [[spoiler: a [[{{Squick}} two year old]] pregnant with ''[[UpToEleven a pregant foetus]]'']]? ''a pregnant foetus'']]? Yeah, "horror" is putting what happens in ''One More Bloody Miracle After Another'' lightly. Of course, YMMV on whether such a situation CrossesTheLineTwice.
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However, he would consider both of these to be a case of MagnumOpusDissonance (although he is by no means bitter about this fact). Where his passion truly lies is in the medium of short story. He has expressed dismay that short stories are not taken as seriously as novels, and hopes to redefine the format. His collections are often very deliberately stricter so that they tell a subtle thematic story when read in order, somewhat reminiscent of Literature/TheKinginYellow in that they are almost loose novels themselves. His latest work, ''We All Hear Stories in the Dark'', in addition to being a massive multi-volume {{Doorstopper}} that takes after the Literature/ArabianNights, takes this idea to its logical extreme, using a ‘choose your own adventure’ format with countless possible paths whose overarching story changes meaning based on which order you read the individual short stories in the book in.
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However, he would consider both of these to be a case of MagnumOpusDissonance (although he is by no means bitter about this fact). Where his passion truly lies is in the medium of short story. He has expressed dismay that short stories are not taken as seriously as novels, and hopes to redefine the format. His collections are often very deliberately stricter so that they tell a subtle thematic story when read in order, somewhat reminiscent of Literature/TheKinginYellow Literature/TheKingInYellow in that they are almost loose novels themselves. His latest work, ''We All Hear Stories in the Dark'', in addition to being a massive multi-volume {{Doorstopper}} that takes after the Literature/ArabianNights, takes this idea to its logical extreme, using a ‘choose your own adventure’ format with countless possible paths whose overarching story changes meaning based on which order you read the individual short stories in the book in.
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* GiantSpider: Shows up early on in Custard Cream. Things quickly [[FromBadToWorse go pair-shaped after that]].
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* {{Absurdism}}: Occasionally, put generally he prefers to take absurdist tropes and {{Deconstruction}} them by playing them utterly straight, with all that would entail [[RealityEnsues in real life]].
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To the slightly more anorak Doctor Who fan, he is responsible from some of the greatest stories from Creator/BigFinish, including [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho029TheChimesOfMidnight The Chimes of Midnight]], and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee Jubilee]], the latter of which he loosely self-adapted in the aforementioned re-introduction is the Daleks.
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To the slightly more anorak Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' fan, he is responsible from some of the greatest stories from Creator/BigFinish, Creator/BigFinish's ''Doctor Who'' [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audio plays]] (and some even claim serious contentions for greatest ''Who'' stories in general), including [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho029TheChimesOfMidnight Terror]]", "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho029TheChimesOfMidnight The Chimes of Midnight]], Midnight]]", and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee Jubilee]], "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee Jubilee]]", the latter of which he loosely self-adapted in the aforementioned re-introduction is the Daleks.
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* BlackComedy
* BodyHorror: Sometimes.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: An early Doctor Who fan audio he did features a mindwiped Doctor trapped in a cliche crappy sitcom by an EldritchAbomination. When he regains his memories, he immediately starts [[AintTooProudToBeg begging the entity]] to let him return to his travels in time and space. The entity presents him with... and equally cliche and crappy Sci-Fi, complete with arming him with an oversized ray gun. He is NOT happy, to say the least.
* BodyHorror: Sometimes.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: An early Doctor Who fan audio he did features a mindwiped Doctor trapped in a cliche crappy sitcom by an EldritchAbomination. When he regains his memories, he immediately starts [[AintTooProudToBeg begging the entity]] to let him return to his travels in time and space. The entity presents him with... and equally cliche and crappy Sci-Fi, complete with arming him with an oversized ray gun. He is NOT happy, to say the least.
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* AttackOfTheMirror: A cliffhanger in his Doctor Who comic arc ''TheCruelSea''.
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He was, back in the day, a reasonably well-accomplished playwright, with his controversial early work Easy Laughter being staged by Creator:/FrancisFordCoppola himself, as well as netting Shearman the honour of being the youngest person ever to be made Resident Dramatist of the Royal Theatre in Exeter. Despite this, however, he is still probably best known today as the guy who re-introduced [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek the Daleks]] to ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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He was, back in the day, a reasonably well-accomplished playwright, with his controversial early work Easy Laughter being staged by Creator:/FrancisFordCoppola Creator/FrancisFordCoppola himself, as well as netting Shearman the honour of being the youngest person ever to be made Resident Dramatist of the Royal Theatre in Exeter. Despite this, however, he is still probably best known today as the guy who re-introduced [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek the Daleks]] to ''Series/DoctorWho''.
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: An early Doctor Who fan audio he did features a mindwiped Doctor trapped in a cliche crappy sitcom by an EldrichAbomination. When he regains his memories, he immediately starts [[AintTooProudToBeg begging the entity]] to let him return to his travels in time and space. The entity presents him with... and equally cliche and crappy Sci-Fi, complete with arming him with an oversized ray gun. He is NOT happy, to say the least.
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* CompletelyMissingThePoint: An early Doctor Who fan audio he did features a mindwiped Doctor trapped in a cliche crappy sitcom by an EldrichAbomination.EldritchAbomination. When he regains his memories, he immediately starts [[AintTooProudToBeg begging the entity]] to let him return to his travels in time and space. The entity presents him with... and equally cliche and crappy Sci-Fi, complete with arming him with an oversized ray gun. He is NOT happy, to say the least.
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* SecondPersonNarration: Unusually, uses this trope in stories with clearly defined characters obviously not intended to ‘stand in for’ the actual reader. Why is [[TrueArtIsInconprehensible anyone’s guess]]
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* SecondPersonNarration: Unusually, uses this trope in stories with clearly defined characters obviously not intended to ‘stand in for’ the actual reader. Why is [[TrueArtIsInconprehensible [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible anyone’s guess]]
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'''Robert Charles Shearman''' (norm 10 February 1970) is a multiple-award winning writer of short stories, stageplays, radio dramas, and television.
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'''Robert Charles Shearman''' (norm 10 February 1970) is a multiple-award winning writer of short stories, stageplays, radio dramas, and television.
He was, back in the day, a reasonably well-accomplished playwright, with his controversial early work Easy Laughter being staged by Creator:/FrancisFordCoppola himself, as well as netting Shearman the honour of being the youngest person ever to be made Resident Dramatist of the Royal Theatre in Exeter. Despite this, however, he is still probably best known today as the guy who re-introduced [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek the Daleks]] to ''Series/DoctorWho''.
To the slightly more anorak Doctor Who fan, he is responsible from some of the greatest stories from Creator/BigFinish, including [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho029TheChimesOfMidnight The Chimes of Midnight]], and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee Jubilee]], the latter of which he loosely self-adapted in the aforementioned re-introduction is the Daleks.
However, he would consider both of these to be a case of MagnumOpusDissonance (although he is by no means bitter about this fact). Where his passion truly lies is in the medium of short story. He has expressed dismay that short stories are not taken as seriously as novels, and hopes to redefine the format. His collections are often very deliberately stricter so that they tell a subtle thematic story when read in order, somewhat reminiscent of Literature/TheKinginYellow in that they are almost loose novels themselves. His latest work, ''We All Hear Stories in the Dark'', in addition to being a massive multi-volume {{Doorstopper}} that takes after the Literature/ArabianNights, takes this idea to its logical extreme, using a ‘choose your own adventure’ format with countless possible paths whose overarching story changes meaning based on which order you read the individual short stories in the book in.
His style is considered to be rather difficult to define, blending the mundane and absurd such that you’re not sure where one ends and the other begins. What’s weirder than a story about a man who goes to hell and is forced to be roommates with Adolf Hitler’s pet dog? A story with that premise, that actually has the reader emotionally invested in the characters! He also has a propensity for taking anything and everything UpToEleven. What’s more horrific than a story about two year old becoming pregnant through divine conception? [[spoiler:Her foetus also being pregnant!]] His controversial early work, Easy Laughter, a Christmas story, starts off as a fairly BlackComedy, but nomoreso than the average sitcom that runs on CringeComedy, but eventually reveals itself to set in a world with a very, ''very'' [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust twisted spin]] on YouMeanXmas.
!!Tropes
* {{Absurdism}}: Occasionally, put generally he prefers to take absurdist tropes and {{Deconstuct}} them by playing them utterly straight, with all that would entail [[RealityEnsues in real life]].
* AttackOfTheMirror: A cliffhanger in his Doctor Who comic arc ''TheCruelSea''.
*AwfulWeddedLife: Love this trope perhaps a bit ''too'' much for a (theoretically) happily married man. You’d be incredibly hard-pressed to find ''any'' two people in any sort of "romantic" relationship who don’t actively despise each other more than anyone else else in the world.
* BadSanta: Shows up in ''Cold Snap'', just before things start to get... [[MindScrew weird]]...
* BitingTheHandHumor: His Doctor Who audio play ''Jubilee'' is a massive TakeThat at the Daleks as a brand, calling them out for downplaying the very real and very human horror of Fascism. Deadline also presents itself as a rant by a SelfInsertCharacter all about how Doctor Who (sorry, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Juliet Bravo]]) ruined his career as a promising playwright, although that one’s more tongue-in-cheek.
*BlackComedy
* BodyHorror: Sometimes.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: An early Doctor Who fan audio he did features a mindwiped Doctor trapped in a cliche crappy sitcom by an EldrichAbomination. When he regains his memories, he immediately starts [[AintTooProudToBeg begging the entity]] to let him return to his travels in time and space. The entity presents him with... and equally cliche and crappy Sci-Fi, complete with arming him with an oversized ray gun. He is NOT happy, to say the least.
* CreatorsOddball: Despite being probably his most familiar work to general audience, his 2005 Doctor Who episode Dalek is incredibly conventional by his standards, although it contains elements of the BlackComedy and emotional drama for which he is known.
*CrossesTheLineTwice: Twice is not enough. His horror fiction loves to positively ‘’dance on'' the boundaries between dark humour and genuine horror, often switching between the two multiple times in a single sentence.
{{Deconstruction}}:
* EverybodyLives: Does this quite a bit by horror writer standards, but this usually just means they end up suffering a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Well, the ten-foot long spider isn’t on the bedroom ceiling any more, and I’m looking around either side of me and can’t see an- [[RightBehindMe oh God]]
* GiantSpider: Shows up early on in Custard Cream. Things quickly [[FromBadToWorse go pair-shaped after that]].
*FateWorseThanDeath
* GroundhogDayLoop
* LighterAndSofter: ''Madalyn Morgan'' and ''Love Among the Lobelias'' almost feel like bedtime stories, a far cry for the misery and horror he usually takes ghoulish delight in.
*LiteralMetaphor: The couple in ''Pangs'' really ''did'' give their hearts to each other. And they have to swap back when they get divorced.
* MagnumOpusDissonance: He isn’t resentful, but would associate himself more with his short story anthologies than his work on Doctor Who.
*MindScrew
* MoodDissonance: Many of his short horror stories will oftentime describe viscerally horrible events in an evanescent stream-of-consciousness.
*OldShame: A minor example with his playwriting career. He doesn’t ''hate'' them, but acknowledges that his writing style was then still finding its feet.
* SecondPersonNarration: Unusually, uses this trope in stories with clearly defined characters obviously not intended to ‘stand in for’ the actual reader. Why is [[TrueArtIsInconprehensible anyone’s guess]]
* SignatureStyle: Loves taking absurd scenarios and using them to tell surprisingly raw and human stories. A favoured setting of his is a WorldLimitedToThePlot based upon genre cliches, typically going hand-and-hand with another of his favourite tropes, the GroundhogDayLoop.
*{{Squick}}: Shows up from time to time. Granny’s Grinning and Custard Cream should especially never be read on the same day as eating.
* TimeyWimeyBall: His Doctor Who scripts have a fondness for this trope rivalling the TropeNamer.
*TrueArtIsIncomprensible
* UrbanFantasy
*WombHorror: [[spoiler: a [[Squick two year old]] pregnant with ''[[UpToEleven a pregant foetus]]'']]? Yeah, "horror" is putting what happens in ''One More Bloody Miracle After Another'' lightly. Of course, YMMV on whether such a situation [[CrossesTheLineTwice]].
*WorldLimitedToThePlot
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
*YouMeanXmas: ''Easy Laughter'' still just calls it Christmas, but it celebrates [[spoiler: the successful extermination of the Jewish Race]]. Played for dark laughs.
He was, back in the day, a reasonably well-accomplished playwright, with his controversial early work Easy Laughter being staged by Creator:/FrancisFordCoppola himself, as well as netting Shearman the honour of being the youngest person ever to be made Resident Dramatist of the Royal Theatre in Exeter. Despite this, however, he is still probably best known today as the guy who re-introduced [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek the Daleks]] to ''Series/DoctorWho''.
To the slightly more anorak Doctor Who fan, he is responsible from some of the greatest stories from Creator/BigFinish, including [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]], [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho029TheChimesOfMidnight The Chimes of Midnight]], and [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho040Jubilee Jubilee]], the latter of which he loosely self-adapted in the aforementioned re-introduction is the Daleks.
However, he would consider both of these to be a case of MagnumOpusDissonance (although he is by no means bitter about this fact). Where his passion truly lies is in the medium of short story. He has expressed dismay that short stories are not taken as seriously as novels, and hopes to redefine the format. His collections are often very deliberately stricter so that they tell a subtle thematic story when read in order, somewhat reminiscent of Literature/TheKinginYellow in that they are almost loose novels themselves. His latest work, ''We All Hear Stories in the Dark'', in addition to being a massive multi-volume {{Doorstopper}} that takes after the Literature/ArabianNights, takes this idea to its logical extreme, using a ‘choose your own adventure’ format with countless possible paths whose overarching story changes meaning based on which order you read the individual short stories in the book in.
His style is considered to be rather difficult to define, blending the mundane and absurd such that you’re not sure where one ends and the other begins. What’s weirder than a story about a man who goes to hell and is forced to be roommates with Adolf Hitler’s pet dog? A story with that premise, that actually has the reader emotionally invested in the characters! He also has a propensity for taking anything and everything UpToEleven. What’s more horrific than a story about two year old becoming pregnant through divine conception? [[spoiler:Her foetus also being pregnant!]] His controversial early work, Easy Laughter, a Christmas story, starts off as a fairly BlackComedy, but nomoreso than the average sitcom that runs on CringeComedy, but eventually reveals itself to set in a world with a very, ''very'' [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust twisted spin]] on YouMeanXmas.
!!Tropes
* {{Absurdism}}: Occasionally, put generally he prefers to take absurdist tropes and {{Deconstuct}} them by playing them utterly straight, with all that would entail [[RealityEnsues in real life]].
* AttackOfTheMirror: A cliffhanger in his Doctor Who comic arc ''TheCruelSea''.
*AwfulWeddedLife: Love this trope perhaps a bit ''too'' much for a (theoretically) happily married man. You’d be incredibly hard-pressed to find ''any'' two people in any sort of "romantic" relationship who don’t actively despise each other more than anyone else else in the world.
* BadSanta: Shows up in ''Cold Snap'', just before things start to get... [[MindScrew weird]]...
* BitingTheHandHumor: His Doctor Who audio play ''Jubilee'' is a massive TakeThat at the Daleks as a brand, calling them out for downplaying the very real and very human horror of Fascism. Deadline also presents itself as a rant by a SelfInsertCharacter all about how Doctor Who (sorry, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Juliet Bravo]]) ruined his career as a promising playwright, although that one’s more tongue-in-cheek.
*BlackComedy
* BodyHorror: Sometimes.
* CompletelyMissingThePoint: An early Doctor Who fan audio he did features a mindwiped Doctor trapped in a cliche crappy sitcom by an EldrichAbomination. When he regains his memories, he immediately starts [[AintTooProudToBeg begging the entity]] to let him return to his travels in time and space. The entity presents him with... and equally cliche and crappy Sci-Fi, complete with arming him with an oversized ray gun. He is NOT happy, to say the least.
* CreatorsOddball: Despite being probably his most familiar work to general audience, his 2005 Doctor Who episode Dalek is incredibly conventional by his standards, although it contains elements of the BlackComedy and emotional drama for which he is known.
*CrossesTheLineTwice: Twice is not enough. His horror fiction loves to positively ‘’dance on'' the boundaries between dark humour and genuine horror, often switching between the two multiple times in a single sentence.
{{Deconstruction}}:
* EverybodyLives: Does this quite a bit by horror writer standards, but this usually just means they end up suffering a FateWorseThanDeath.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Well, the ten-foot long spider isn’t on the bedroom ceiling any more, and I’m looking around either side of me and can’t see an- [[RightBehindMe oh God]]
* GiantSpider: Shows up early on in Custard Cream. Things quickly [[FromBadToWorse go pair-shaped after that]].
*FateWorseThanDeath
* GroundhogDayLoop
* LighterAndSofter: ''Madalyn Morgan'' and ''Love Among the Lobelias'' almost feel like bedtime stories, a far cry for the misery and horror he usually takes ghoulish delight in.
*LiteralMetaphor: The couple in ''Pangs'' really ''did'' give their hearts to each other. And they have to swap back when they get divorced.
* MagnumOpusDissonance: He isn’t resentful, but would associate himself more with his short story anthologies than his work on Doctor Who.
*MindScrew
* MoodDissonance: Many of his short horror stories will oftentime describe viscerally horrible events in an evanescent stream-of-consciousness.
*OldShame: A minor example with his playwriting career. He doesn’t ''hate'' them, but acknowledges that his writing style was then still finding its feet.
* SecondPersonNarration: Unusually, uses this trope in stories with clearly defined characters obviously not intended to ‘stand in for’ the actual reader. Why is [[TrueArtIsInconprehensible anyone’s guess]]
* SignatureStyle: Loves taking absurd scenarios and using them to tell surprisingly raw and human stories. A favoured setting of his is a WorldLimitedToThePlot based upon genre cliches, typically going hand-and-hand with another of his favourite tropes, the GroundhogDayLoop.
*{{Squick}}: Shows up from time to time. Granny’s Grinning and Custard Cream should especially never be read on the same day as eating.
* TimeyWimeyBall: His Doctor Who scripts have a fondness for this trope rivalling the TropeNamer.
*TrueArtIsIncomprensible
* UrbanFantasy
*WombHorror: [[spoiler: a [[Squick two year old]] pregnant with ''[[UpToEleven a pregant foetus]]'']]? Yeah, "horror" is putting what happens in ''One More Bloody Miracle After Another'' lightly. Of course, YMMV on whether such a situation [[CrossesTheLineTwice]].
*WorldLimitedToThePlot
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
*YouMeanXmas: ''Easy Laughter'' still just calls it Christmas, but it celebrates [[spoiler: the successful extermination of the Jewish Race]]. Played for dark laughs.
