The Hollow Men (novel)
The Hollow Men was the tenth BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor and Ace. It was the second Seventh Doctor and Ace novel of the PDA range.
Publisher's summary
The village was cursed centuries ago, but only now is the alien evil beginning to revive...
The children of Hexen Bridge are gifted and clever, but insanity and murder follow in their wake. The Doctor has a special interest in the village, but on his return to England in the early twenty-first century, events seem to be escalating out of control.
Kidnapped and taken to Liverpool, the Seventh Doctor realises that developments in Hexen Bridge have horrifying repercussions for the rest of the country. Ace is left in the village, where small-minded prejudices and unsettled scores are flaring into violence.
As scarecrows fashioned from the bodies of the recent and ancient dead stalk the country lanes around Hexen Bridge, a sinister dark stain is spreading over the surrounding fields. And as the fierce evil grows ever stronger, can the Doctor and Ace prevent it from engulfing the entire world?
Chapter Titles
- First Prologue: The Bloody Assizes
- Second Prologue: Sticks and Stones
Part One -- Jack of All Trades
- Chapter 1: Little England
- Chapter 2: The Butterfly Collector
- Chapter 3: The Village Green Preservation Society
- Chapter 4: I Betray My Friends
Part Two -- Jack in the Box
- Chapter 5: The Promised Land
- Chapter 6: City Sickness
- Chapter 7: Down in the Police Station at Midnight
- Chapter 8: The Sound of Someone You Love Who's Going Away and It Doesn't Matter
Part Three -- Happyjack
- Chapter 9: Twisted Firestarter
- Chapter 10: The St Anthony's Estate Chinese Takeaway Massacre
- Chapter 11: Hatful of Hollow
- Chapter 12: Unfinished Symphony
Part Four -- Mad Jack's Eyes
- Chapter 13: The Vacant Zone
- Chapter 14: Sacrificial Bonfire
- Chapter 15: Ceremony in a Lonely Place
- Chapter 16: Wilder
- First Epilogue: English Settlement
- Second Epilogue: The Angels Keep Turning the Wheels of the Universe
Plot
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Characters
- Seventh Doctor
- Ace
- Jerak
- Steven Chen
- Bob Matson
- Trevor Winstone
- Kenneth Shanks
- Phillip Burridge
- Joanna Matson
- Rebecca Baber
- Matthew Hatch
- Bevan
- Billy Tyley
- Megan Tyley
- Nicola
- Thomas Denman
References
Individuals
- Steven Chen has an affair with Joanna.
- Jerak is created by the Hakolians
Notes
- This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
- This story is related to the television story The Awakening, with the second Hakolian War Machine.
Continuity
- The Doctor first became aware of an alien presence in Hexen Bridge during the aftermath of the Devil's End incident. (TV: The Daemons) After his adventure in Little Hodcombe, the Doctor, with the help of Jane Hampden, acquired a place on the board of governors at Hexen Bridge School so that he could keep an eye on the area. (TV: The Awakening)
External links
- The Hollow Men at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Hollow Men at The Whoniverse
