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"Well, I doubt you'll ever see a bigger [[insect]]." | "Well, I doubt you'll ever see a bigger [[insect]]." | ||
Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. 'Mummy there's a daddy longlegs in my room!' Then the screaming starts... Alan Travers is heading home from the pub when something rushes his face - a [[spider]]'s web. Then something huge and deadly lumbers from the shadows... Kevin Alperton is on his way to school when he is attacked by a [[mosquito]]. A big one. Then things get dangerous. | [[Gabby Nichols]] is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. 'Mummy there's a daddy longlegs in my room!' Then the screaming starts... [[Alan Travers]] is heading home from the pub when something rushes his face - a [[spider]]'s web. Then something huge and deadly lumbers from the shadows... [[Kevin Alperton]] is on his way to school when he is attacked by a [[mosquito]]. A big one. Then things get dangerous. | ||
But it isn't the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries [[Twelfth Doctor|the Doctor]]. It isn't the swarming, mutated | But it isn't the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries [[Twelfth Doctor|the Doctor]]. It isn't the swarming, mutated [[insect]]s that make him nervous. It isn't an old man's garbled memories of past dangers that intrigue him. | ||
With the village cut off from the outside world, and the insects becoming more and more dangerous, the Doctor knows that no one is safe. Not unless he can decode the strange symbols engraved on an ancient [[stone]] | With the village cut off from the outside world, and the insects becoming more and more dangerous, the Doctor knows that no one is safe. Not unless he can decode the strange symbols engraved on an ancient [[stone circle]], and unravel a mystery dating back to the [[Second World War]]. | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* The story introduces a new | * The story introduces a new villain, the Wyrresters, a species of giant scorpion-like aliens. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
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* Clara learned lockpicking from [[Jenny Flint]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') | * Clara learned lockpicking from [[Jenny Flint]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'') | ||
* Clara refers to [[Danny Pink]] as her new boyfriend. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') | * Clara refers to [[Danny Pink]] as her new boyfriend. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'') | ||
* The Doctor asks for [[Charlie Bevan]] to help him take a motorbike back to the TARDIS as he is uncertain how his new body will perform despite his use of a motorbike in his [[Eleventh Doctor|previous incarnation]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]''). | * The Doctor asks for [[Charlie Bevan]] to help him take a [[motorbike]] back to the [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] as he is uncertain how his new body will perform despite his use of a motorbike in his [[Eleventh Doctor|previous incarnation]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]''). | ||
* The entire populace of a town being the hypnotic effects of strange substance has happened before. ([[TV|TV:]] ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'') | * The entire populace of a town being subjected to the hypnotic effects of strange substance has happened before. ([[TV|TV:]] ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'') | ||
* This is not the first time someone has recognized the Doctor from their past. ([[TV]]: [[Love & Monsters (TV story)|''Love & Monsters'']]'', [[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]], ''[[PROSE]]:'' [[Night of the Humans]]'') | * This is not the first time someone has recognized the Doctor from their past. ([[TV]]: [[Love & Monsters (TV story)|''Love & Monsters'']]'', [[The Poison Sky (TV story)|The Poison Sky]], ''[[PROSE]]:'' [[Night of the Humans]]'') | ||
Revision as of 18:33, 18 July 2015
The Crawling Terror is one of three Twelfth Doctor novels published in September 2014.
Publisher's summary
"Well, I doubt you'll ever see a bigger insect."
Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. 'Mummy there's a daddy longlegs in my room!' Then the screaming starts... Alan Travers is heading home from the pub when something rushes his face - a spider's web. Then something huge and deadly lumbers from the shadows... Kevin Alperton is on his way to school when he is attacked by a mosquito. A big one. Then things get dangerous.
But it isn't the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries the Doctor. It isn't the swarming, mutated insects that make him nervous. It isn't an old man's garbled memories of past dangers that intrigue him.
With the village cut off from the outside world, and the insects becoming more and more dangerous, the Doctor knows that no one is safe. Not unless he can decode the strange symbols engraved on an ancient stone circle, and unravel a mystery dating back to the Second World War.
Plot
Characters
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Notes
- The story introduces a new villain, the Wyrresters, a species of giant scorpion-like aliens.
Continuity
- Judson is mentioned as one of the scientists assigned to translate the Wyrrester signal before he was assigned to ULTIMA (TV: The Curse of Fenric).
- Clara learned lockpicking from Jenny Flint. (TV: Deep Breath)
- Clara refers to Danny Pink as her new boyfriend. (TV: Listen)
- The Doctor asks for Charlie Bevan to help him take a motorbike back to the TARDIS as he is uncertain how his new body will perform despite his use of a motorbike in his previous incarnation (TV: The Bells of Saint John).
- The entire populace of a town being subjected to the hypnotic effects of strange substance has happened before. (TV: The Crimson Horror)
- This is not the first time someone has recognized the Doctor from their past. (TV: Love & Monsters, The Poison Sky, PROSE: Night of the Humans)
Audio release
- An audio reading by Neve McIntosh was released by BBC Physical Audio on 29 January 2015.
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