Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)

Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)

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	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
	Ace
	Nuada
	Earth, Wales, Llanfer Ceiriog, Tír na n-Óg
	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
	Andrew Hunt
	7
	June 1992
	Paperback Book, 256 Pages
	ISBN 0426203682

Publisher's summary

'Spare no sympathy for those creatures. They were witches, they deserved to die.'

A coach crashes on the M40. All the passengers are killed. The bodies carry no identification; they are wearing similar new clothes. And each has a suitcase full of banknotes.

A country vet delivers a foal. The mare has a deep wound in her forehead. In the straw, the vet finds a tapered horn.

In the darkening and doomed world known to its inhabitants as Tír na n-Óg, the besieged humans defend the walls of their citadel Dinorben against mythical beasts and demons.

The TARDIS's link with the Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.

Characters

• The Seventh Doctor
  • Is still afraid of fire.
• Ace
  • Isn't very religious.
• Lynx
  • The silver cat which has been popping up, which is generated by the TARDIS.
• Herne
• Goibhnie
• Bathsheba
• Inspector Stevens
• Hugh
• Janet
• Rhys -
• Constable Hughes
• Stuart Taylor - Local Vet

References

• A speck of demonic protoplasm infects the TARDIS.
• New Scotland Yard has a one-man Paranormal Investigations Team.
• The Book of Rassilon starts with "In the beginning...".
• Earth is widely recognised as one of the causal nexus points of the galaxy.
• Ace mentions that she used to be waitress and remembers the time when she met the Cheetah People. She also remembers the time she went to 1963. References to Dragonfire, Remembrance of the Daleks and Survival.
• The Doctor refers to the time he took his past companiom Mel to a Welsh holiday camp in the 1950's. This is a reference to Delta and the Bannermen.
• There is an indirect refernce to Battlefield, when King Arthur is mentioned.
• When the Demons are fought of using faith Ace thinks of the Heomovorses. Aliens which were fought of using faith. They appeared in The Curse of Fenric.

Foods and Beverages

• The Doctor and Ace eat potato and leek soup.
• The Doctor fries up bacon for everyone.

Notes

• This is the final novel in the Cat's Cradle Trilogy.

Continuity

• Clones of the Doctor and Ace appear in NA: Return of the Living Dad.
• In NA: Deceit it's revealed the effects of the protoplasm on the Doctor.

Timeline

• This story takes place after DWM: Ravens
• This story takes place before NA: Nightshade

External links

• Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark at The Whoniverse
• Bewildering Reference Guide entry to Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark, with notes by the author