Spinster's Prison
The Spinster's Prison, (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death [+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death (audio story)"]) also known as Egortiye, (PROSE: The World of Lies [+]Loading...["The World of Lies (novel)"]) was a mysterious realm which acted as a prison divided into four seasonal zones.
It was exactly 1000 square feet in area. It was created to imprison the Queen of Spring, although there were other seasonal prisons for the Duke of Autumn, King of Summer, and the Matriarch of Winter.
Adrian Wall and Bernice Summerfield visited, but neither of them knew how they came there. Benny eventually realized she'd came to the Prison while in a coma in the real world induced by reading a play which had a "complex virus" in its text. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death [+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death (audio story)"])
Behind the scenes
- This location originated in the story It's Raining Again by Stewart Sheargold and Paul Magrs in Perfect Timing II, which showed the Fifth Doctor visiting this realm.
- Reflecting It's Raining Again, the Tremas Master appears in a forest prison in PROSE: The Velvet Dark [+]Loading...["The Velvet Dark (short story)"] which resembles the autumnal prison of the Duke of Autumn.
- The winter realm of this prison appeared in the short story "The Eyes of the Day" in the Obverse Books anthology The Blue Landscape and other stories, which collected various works by Stewart Sheargold.
- The threshold between life and death in AUDIO: The Darkening Eye [+]Loading...["The Darkening Eye (audio story)"] is shown to be an autumnal forest, possibly being connected to the prison realm which is also shown to exist in a liminal place between life and death.
