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novel name= The Nightmare of Black Island|
{{Infobox Story SMW
series= [[BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures]]|
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number= 4|
|series = [[BBC New Series Adventures]]
doctor= [[Tenth Doctor]]|
|number = 10
companions= [[Rose Tyler]]|
|doctor = Tenth Doctor
setting= Wales|
|companions = [[Rose Tyler|Rose]]
enemy= [[Balor]]|
|enemy = [[Cynrog]], [[Nathaniel Morton]], [[Balor]]
year= |
|setting = [[Ynys Du]], [[Wales]], [[2007]]
writer= [[Mike Tucker]]|
|writer = Mike Tucker
publisher= [[BBC Books]]|
|read by = [[Anthony Head]]
release date= [[September]] [[2006]]|
|publisher = BBC Books
format= Hardcover, 252 pages|
|release date = 21 September 2006
isbn= ISBN 0-56348-650-3|
|format = Hardcover, 252 pages
previous story= [[The Resurrection Casket]]|
|isbn = ISBN 0-563-48650-3
next story= [[The Art of Destruction]]
|prev = The Resurrection Casket (novel)
|}}
|next = The Art of Destruction (novel)
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|cover = [[Henry Steadman]]
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'''''The Nightmare of Black Island''''' was the tenth novel in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Mike Tucker]] and featured the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]].


==Publisher’s Summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters.
On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters.


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As the children's nightmares get worse, The Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...
As the children's nightmares get worse, The Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...


==Characters==
== Plot ==
*[[Tenth Doctor]]
[[Carl Jenkins]] was fishing off the coast of the small Welsh fishing village of [[Ynys Du]] as a thunderstorm hit. He started to head home when he noticed a green light coming from the supposedly disused lighthouse. Feeling around in his canvas fishing bag, he spiked his finger on the barb of one of his fishing hooks. But as he started cleaning up the blood, he heard a child's laughter, and something pulled hard at his fishing line. The source of the laughter was a young boy in pyjamas, who was pointing behind Carl at the thing which had pulled on his fishing line. The thing pulling on the fishing line was a brightly coloured monster covered in spines and barnacles with red eyes and barbed claws. The thing swiped its barbed claws at Carl, leaving behind only a pool of blood.
*[[Rose Tyler]]
*[[Balor]]


==Summary==
[[The Doctor's TARDIS]] tumbled through space as the [[Tenth Doctor]] fiddled with her wiring while [[Rose Tyler]] slept on the chair in the control room. Rose started stirring as her dreams took her to a beach in Britain where she saw a laughing child and a fisherman. Then, the thing came out of the water and attacked the fisherman with its barbed claws, killing him with one swoop of its arm. She woke with a start, and a quick conversation with the Doctor established that the TARDIS had experienced a similar dream. The Doctor managed to trace the origin of the dream, materialising on the stretch of coastline which Rose had been experiencing moments earlier.
Rose has a nightmare in the TARDIS about a fisherman being killed by a hideous monster. The Doctor traces the source of her nightmare to present-day, on a Welsh island called Ynys Du (literally 'Black Island'). There, they find a dead fisherman, the same one that died in Rose's nightmare.


The Ynys Du Village has been haunted by monsters each night, and all the children are plagued by nightmares. While the Doctor discovers a massive psychic transmitter in Black Island's lighthouse, Rose joins a gang of kids, who persuade her and a little girl, Ali, to do the ultimate dare - to venture down a dark tunnel. The tunnel opens up into a court
The two travellers explored the coastline, noticing a figure in a white coat had gotten to where the fisherman used to be before them. By the time the Doctor and Rose had made it to the fisherman's spot, all that were left of him were puddles of blood; no body, no fishing equipment. As they left the bloody scene, the Doctor noticed a glimmer of light coming from the abandoned lighthouse, but it was off again before he could investigate. They headed on back to the village to talk to the locals and find some answers.
yard to an old house. While exploring the cellar, Rose is dragged off by alien Cynrogs, leaving Ali hiding in the shadows.


Rose is strapped down to her back on a bed, and conected to machinery. The Cynrog send her to sleep and using her mind, collect information on what she knows. Some time lator, after the Cynrogs have left, Ali comes along and, waking Rose, frees her from the bed. The two girls escape. 
To get to the village, they had to go through a wood where they were attacked by creatures similar to and including the thing which attacked the fisherman in Rose's dream. The creatures seemed to not conform to any normal evolutionary process but were rather "thrown together". They managed to escape the creatures due to their relative smallness making it easier for them to pass through the woods until they reached a cul-de-sac as the wood opened up onto the village. The Doctor managed to prevent the monsters from following them further into the village by setting off all the car alarms in the estate with his screwdriver, the cacophony scaring the creatures away.
 
The psychic transmitter is causing the children in the village to have nightmares, then it extracts the monsters from their nightmares and manifests them in physical form (which explains why the monsters only appear at night). However, the Cynrog are using the children's monsters to create a suitable body for their reincarnated war god, Balor.


Balor's spaceship crash-landed on the Ynys Du coastline in the 1930s, and Balor died in the explosion. However, eight children witnessed Balor's dead, and a segment of Balor's mind each passed into their own. The Cynrog have been gathering the children (who are now old) to restore Balor's consciousness (one of them is Nathanial Morton, who owns the nearby rectory).
In the village pub, the [[Red Lion (Ynys Du)|Red Lion]], many of the locals huddled over their drinks while a village meeting fell into the grip of old arguments. [[Ali Hardy]], daughter of pub owners [[Beth Hardy|Beth]] and [[Mervyn Hardy]], sobbed in her room as she tried to stay awake, to delay the onset of the nightly nightmares. Suddenly, the door to the outside opened and the Doctor and Rose stepped through it. Silence fell on the pub as the patrons spied the strangers, but Beth was hopeful when she heard that one of them was a doctor. Mervyn was less easily pacified, suspicious of the strangers who had managed to walk through the town unharmed. When questioned by the Doctor, he denied the existence of the monsters and told them to leave when he mentioned the fisherman's death. Luckily, Ali came down the stairs to see what the commotion was, bringing down a drawing of the monster that Rose saw. This was enough to break the tension in the room and let the villagers talk to the Doctor about what had been happening. It was revealed that the phone lines went dead whenever the monsters appeared, so the villagers couldn't call for help, and they scoffed at the thought that the authorities would believe them anyway. So they had managed to fit their lives around the monsters, coming inside at nightfall where the monsters couldn't get them. [[Bronwyn Ceredig]] then interrupted the conversation, accusing [[Nathaniel Morton]] of being behind it all as the monsters only started appearing after he had returned to Ynys Du and taken up residency in the rectory. This accusation was met with anger from the rest of the villagers who called her mad and told her to go away. Apparently she had been feuding with Morton for a while. Eventually, the patrons of the pub returned home, leaving in groups and walking as quickly as they could to avoid being in the open as much as possible. Deciding to visit the rectory and the light house once day had dawned, the Doctor and Rose spent the night in the pub, Rose in a guest room and the Doctor not sleeping as usual.


However, the Cynrog attempt to restore Balor using only seven of the eight fragments, and so Balor becomes wildly unstable and kills most of the Cynrog. However, it is revealled that Morton has turned into Balor, and now intends to rule the world. However, Rose reverses the psychic transmitter's polarity, so instead of using the children's nightmares, it locks on to the psychospore of the adults of the village, and since they don't dream about monsters (instead, things like interest rates, parking spaces, etc), Morton-Balor loses his physical form and dies.
''To be expanded''


==Timeline==
== Characters ==
*The Nightmare of Black Island occurs after: [[The Resurrection Casket]]
* [[Tenth Doctor]]
*The Nightmare of Black Island occurs before: [[The Art of Destruction]]
* [[Rose Tyler]]
* [[Balor]]
* [[Nathaniel Morton]]
* [[Beth Hardy]]
* [[Mervyn Hardy]]
* [[Ali Hardy]]
* [[Peyne]]
* [[Billy Palmer]]
* [[Bronwyn Ceredig]]
* [[Jimmy (The Nightmare of Black Island)|Jimmy]]


*This story is set during [[Series 2 (Doctor Who)]]
== Worldbuilding ==
* The [[everlasting matches]] are mentioned.
* The apple grass from [[New Earth (New Earth)|New Earth]] is mentioned.
* It is said that [[Time Lord]]s are meant to be extinct, due the [[Last Great Time War]].
* The Doctor quotes "[[Jabberwocky]] "while walking through the woods for the first time.


==References==
=== TARDIS ===


*The Doctor quotes '[[Jabberwocky]]' while walking through the woods for the first time.
* TARDIS's telepathic circuits pick up signals from the Cynrog behaviour inhibitor's telepathic aerials, which affected Rose's dreams whilst she asleep inside it.


*The [[Nestene Consciousness]], a [[Raxacoricofallapatorian]] and a [[Dalek]] all make cameo appearances.
=== Food and Beverages ===
* The Doctor eats a "gargantuan" [[breakfast]] in the pub and then moves onto [[toast]].
* Rose drinks hot chocolate and [[coffee]] in the pub.


==Notes==
=== Science & Technology ===
''to be added''


==Continuity==
* The form of Balor is being reconstructed with a machine using psychomorphic radiation.
''to be added''
* The Cynrog ship is an interstellar hopper with dual plasma-injected engines and a toughened duralinium hull with built-in force-shield deflectors. It has a cloaking-shield generator.
* A behaviorial inhibitor is installed on top of the Ynys Du lighthouse


==External Links==
== Notes ==
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/whobb910.htm The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of '''The Nightmare of Black Island''']
* This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.
* [http://www.whoniverse.org/discontinuity/NS11.php The Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for '''The Nightmare of Black Island''']
* Balor is similar to [[Scaroth]], in that both have pieces of themselves scatter into different parts.


{{TDA}}
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor sees apparitions (generated from Rose's memory) of the [[Nestene Consciousness]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') a [[Raxacoricofallapatorian]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'') and a [[Dalek]] . ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'')
* The Doctor jokes about "monsters in Assembly in Cardiff". ([[TV]]: ''[[Boom Town (TV story)|Boom Town]]'')


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== Additional cover images ==
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== Audiobook ==
[[Category:2006 novels|Nightmare of Black Island, The]]
* This novel was released as an audiobook on [[2 October (releases)|2 October]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]] by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Anthony Head]].
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* {{whoniverse|ns10|The Nightmare of Black Island}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/blackisland.htm The Cloister Library: '''The Nightmare of Black Island''']
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The Nightmare of Black Island was the tenth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Mike Tucker and featured the Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters.

The villagers suspect that ancient industrialist Nathanial Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own.

Who are the ancient figures that sleep in the old priory? What are the monsters that prowl the woods after sunset? What is the light that glows in the disused lighthouse on Black Island?

As the children's nightmares get worse, The Doctor and Rose discover an alien plot to resurrect an ancient evil...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Carl Jenkins was fishing off the coast of the small Welsh fishing village of Ynys Du as a thunderstorm hit. He started to head home when he noticed a green light coming from the supposedly disused lighthouse. Feeling around in his canvas fishing bag, he spiked his finger on the barb of one of his fishing hooks. But as he started cleaning up the blood, he heard a child's laughter, and something pulled hard at his fishing line. The source of the laughter was a young boy in pyjamas, who was pointing behind Carl at the thing which had pulled on his fishing line. The thing pulling on the fishing line was a brightly coloured monster covered in spines and barnacles with red eyes and barbed claws. The thing swiped its barbed claws at Carl, leaving behind only a pool of blood.

The Doctor's TARDIS tumbled through space as the Tenth Doctor fiddled with her wiring while Rose Tyler slept on the chair in the control room. Rose started stirring as her dreams took her to a beach in Britain where she saw a laughing child and a fisherman. Then, the thing came out of the water and attacked the fisherman with its barbed claws, killing him with one swoop of its arm. She woke with a start, and a quick conversation with the Doctor established that the TARDIS had experienced a similar dream. The Doctor managed to trace the origin of the dream, materialising on the stretch of coastline which Rose had been experiencing moments earlier.

The two travellers explored the coastline, noticing a figure in a white coat had gotten to where the fisherman used to be before them. By the time the Doctor and Rose had made it to the fisherman's spot, all that were left of him were puddles of blood; no body, no fishing equipment. As they left the bloody scene, the Doctor noticed a glimmer of light coming from the abandoned lighthouse, but it was off again before he could investigate. They headed on back to the village to talk to the locals and find some answers.

To get to the village, they had to go through a wood where they were attacked by creatures similar to and including the thing which attacked the fisherman in Rose's dream. The creatures seemed to not conform to any normal evolutionary process but were rather "thrown together". They managed to escape the creatures due to their relative smallness making it easier for them to pass through the woods until they reached a cul-de-sac as the wood opened up onto the village. The Doctor managed to prevent the monsters from following them further into the village by setting off all the car alarms in the estate with his screwdriver, the cacophony scaring the creatures away.

In the village pub, the Red Lion, many of the locals huddled over their drinks while a village meeting fell into the grip of old arguments. Ali Hardy, daughter of pub owners Beth and Mervyn Hardy, sobbed in her room as she tried to stay awake, to delay the onset of the nightly nightmares. Suddenly, the door to the outside opened and the Doctor and Rose stepped through it. Silence fell on the pub as the patrons spied the strangers, but Beth was hopeful when she heard that one of them was a doctor. Mervyn was less easily pacified, suspicious of the strangers who had managed to walk through the town unharmed. When questioned by the Doctor, he denied the existence of the monsters and told them to leave when he mentioned the fisherman's death. Luckily, Ali came down the stairs to see what the commotion was, bringing down a drawing of the monster that Rose saw. This was enough to break the tension in the room and let the villagers talk to the Doctor about what had been happening. It was revealed that the phone lines went dead whenever the monsters appeared, so the villagers couldn't call for help, and they scoffed at the thought that the authorities would believe them anyway. So they had managed to fit their lives around the monsters, coming inside at nightfall where the monsters couldn't get them. Bronwyn Ceredig then interrupted the conversation, accusing Nathaniel Morton of being behind it all as the monsters only started appearing after he had returned to Ynys Du and taken up residency in the rectory. This accusation was met with anger from the rest of the villagers who called her mad and told her to go away. Apparently she had been feuding with Morton for a while. Eventually, the patrons of the pub returned home, leaving in groups and walking as quickly as they could to avoid being in the open as much as possible. Deciding to visit the rectory and the light house once day had dawned, the Doctor and Rose spent the night in the pub, Rose in a guest room and the Doctor not sleeping as usual.

To be expanded

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

TARDIS[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • TARDIS's telepathic circuits pick up signals from the Cynrog behaviour inhibitor's telepathic aerials, which affected Rose's dreams whilst she asleep inside it.

Food and Beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Doctor eats a "gargantuan" breakfast in the pub and then moves onto toast.
  • Rose drinks hot chocolate and coffee in the pub.

Science & Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The form of Balor is being reconstructed with a machine using psychomorphic radiation.
  • The Cynrog ship is an interstellar hopper with dual plasma-injected engines and a toughened duralinium hull with built-in force-shield deflectors. It has a cloaking-shield generator.
  • A behaviorial inhibitor is installed on top of the Ynys Du lighthouse

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.
  • Balor is similar to Scaroth, in that both have pieces of themselves scatter into different parts.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Additional cover images[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Nightmare of Black Island paperback.jpg

    Alternate cover without Rose

Audiobook[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Audiobook cover

    Audiobook cover

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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