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 Denman
- Thomas Denman
References
Diseases
- Shanks believes the chemical being pumped into the water supply is a cure for CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and BSE (mad cow disease).
Individuals
- Steven Chen has an affair with Joanna.
- The Second Doctor had a holiday with Jamie and Victoria in Grasmere.
- Shanks met Nyssa while Denman met Tegan.
Jerak
- Jerak was created by the Hakolians and is the second War Machine in their invasion.
- Jerak exists in another dimension accessible via a mirror.
Time travel
- The Doctor visits a child Shanks, then a week later from Shanks's perspective he returns after the events of this story.
- Learning he's already made reservations, the Doctor makes a note to remind himself to go back and make the reservations.
Notes
- This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
- While the back cover sets this story between The Curse of Fenric and Survival, the fact Perivale is on the Doctor's list seems to indicate it takes place after the latter story.
- Somewhat of a sequel, this story is related to the television story The Awakening.
- The story seems to date The Daemons to 1971.
- This story takes place in "the early years" of the 21st century, with reference made to Tuesday the 17 June. June 17th was a Tuesday only in 2003 and 2008. Another character refers to the Great Drought of '02, so it could be either year.
- Steven Taylor's name is misspelled as "Stephen."
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)
- Ace says she hates fascists as much as she hates clowns. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
- She tells Stephen the last time she was at a church she was being chased by vampires. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
- The Doctor remembers being in London with Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom at Christmas. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
- He has a 'To Do List' including leaving a settee in Perivale, (TV: Survival) and returning to Planet 14. (TV: The Invasion) According to one account, it was the Sixth Doctor who left the settee in Perivale. (COMIC: Emeror of the Daleks!)
- The Doctor remembers regenerating from a fatal fall. (TV: Logopolis)
- The Doctor has previously encountered alien scarecrows (COMIC: The Night Walkers) and will do so again. (TV: Human Nature/The Family of Blood)
External links
- The Hollow Men at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Hollow Men at The Whoniverse
