Nightshade (Gatiss novel)

Nightshade

Author	Mark Gatiss
Cover artist	Peter Elson
Series	Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures
Release number	8
Subject	Featuring: Seventh Doctor Ace
Publisher	Virgin Books
Publication date	August 1992
ISBN	0-426-20376-3
Preceded by	Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
Followed by	Love and War

Nightshade is an original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Gatiss, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #190. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Premise

The Doctor and Ace end up in the village of Crook Marsham in 1968. The Doctor contemplates retiring and Ace falls in love with local boy Robin Yeadon. In a nearby retirement home, Edmund Trevithick, who once played the fictional character known as Professor Nightshade in the BBC TV series of the same title, begins to see other fictional characters from the programme as if they were real. The Doctor realizes that Crook Marsham has had many unexplained deaths throughout history. The villagers are then plagued by appearances of lost loved ones.

References

1. Doctor Who Magazine, No. 190, pp. 18–19
2. Parkin, Lance (2007). AHistory: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who universe (2nd ed.). Des Moines, Iowa: Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN   978-0-9759446-6-0.
3. Pearson, Lars (1999). I, Who: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who Novels (1st ed.). Des Moines, Iowa: Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN   0-9673746-0-X.

External links

• Nightshade title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database