White Darkness (novel)
"White Darkness" is the fifteenth installment in the series of New Adventure stories published by Virgin Publishing in the 1990s. The story is set in Haiti, 1915 and 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 also the Cthulhu mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft lent his name to one of the principle characters in the story, Dr. Howard Phillips, who at one point presents the Doctor with a copy of the Necronomicon, which was given to him by Aleister Crowley and written in the original Eocene language.
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.
Characters
Leutnant Katze
Henri
Kapitan Weber
Lecomte
Claude
Joseph
Leutnant Klenze
Colonel LV Mortimer
Admiral Caperton
General Charles Oscar Etienne
Major Paul Richmann
Captain Glen
References
- The following years / eras: 15 million BCE, 1744, 1750, 1908, 1913, 1934, 1986, 25th century, 27th century are referred to by various characters.
- The TARDIS HADS can be manually overidden.
- There are various James Bond references including: Q Brnach, Dr. No.
- The Doctor learned hypnotism from The Master.
- The Doctor can read Eocene.
- The following historical figures (and other people of mention) are mentioned: Abraham Lincoln, Aleister Crowley, Allan Quartermain, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Bates, Sherlock * Holmes, Woodrow Wilson, Lee van Cleef.
- These weapons are used by various people throughout the novel: Steyr 1912, Kar 96 rifle, gelignite, Luger.
- Other references:
Alsace, Arawak, argot, bauxite, Bessie, Bizango, bocar, bufus, cacos, Cap-Haitien, Clairin,Coomb's Syndrome, copper, coup poudre, Daleks, datura, Diodon, duppies, Exo, focused neuro-pattern enhancer, Fomalhaut, gold, Gonave Gulf, Great Old Ones, hydrophone, jumbies, Key West, Khul, L'Hotel Royale, Mambo, Necronomicon, obeah, Peter Lorre, Petro Gods, Port au Prince, quinine,Rada Loa, Rambo, Rihanssu, scopalamine, Secte Rouge, silver, Spanish, Sphoeroides, St. Patrick, tarot, tetrodotoxin, The Dark Tower, Toussaint L'Overture, Usurians, Veltroch
Notes
to be added
Continuity
- In "All-Consuming Fire," the Great Old One Mait was trying to release is identified as Cthulhu.
