White Darkness (novel)

White Darkness

Key crew

Publisher:

[[publisher::Virgin Books]]

Writer:

David A. McIntee

Release details

Release number:

15

Release date:

June 1993

Format:

Paperback Book, 244 Pages

ISBN:

ISBN 0-426-20395-X

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White Darkness is the fifteenth New Adventure novel published by Virgin Publishing in the 1990s. The story is set in Haiti 1915. It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield. The book was written by David A. McIntee, who derived much of the story's material from Wade Davis' The Serpent and the Rainbow, a research into the practice of voodoo and zombification in Haiti and the Cthulhu Mythos created by H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft's name was given to one of the principal characters in the story, Dr. Howard Phillips, who at one point presents the Doctor with a copy of the Necronomiconin the original Eocene, given to him by Aleister Crowley.

Publisher's summary

'We believe that death should always be part of life. '

The Doctor’s last three visits to the scattered human colonies of the third millennium have not been entirely successful. And now that Ace has rejoined him and Bernice, life on board the TARDIS is getting pretty stressful. The Doctor yearns for a simpler time and place: Earth, the tropics, the early twentieth century.

The TARDIS lands in Haiti in the early years of the First World War. And the Doctor, Bernice and Ace land in a murderous plot involving voodoo, violent death, Zombies and German spies. And perhaps something else -- something far, far worse.

Plot

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Characters

References

Books

Howard Phillips has a copy of an Eocene Necronomicon, which was given to him by Aleister Crowley.
Nkome/Mait possessed a copy of The Beginner's Guide to the Necronomicon and other related tomes.

Cultural references

There are James Bond references, including Q Branch and Dr. No.
Given the Lovecraftian flavour of the story, the presence of a character called "Howard Phillips" is a homage to Howard Phillips Lovecraft himself.
The Doctor is compared to "our man in Havana" because of his linen suit, which makes its debut in this story.