The House (audio story)
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The House was the second story in the audio anthology The Doctor and Carnacki, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Georgia Cook and featured Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and both Dan Starkey and Joe Jameson as Thomas Carnacki.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Awoken in the dead of night to assist his distraught friend Arkright, Carnacki finds himself unexpectedly thrust into a long-buried mystery from his childhood, and face-to-face with a man he hasn't seen in years: the Doctor.
But what is 'The House'? Why does everything Arkright touch transform into the same rotting furnishings and wallpaper? Can a man really be haunted by a building?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Part one[[edit] | [edit source]]
Carnacki is summoned to the Cross Keys by a boy paid by the Doctor, whom he has not seen in over fifteen years and who has found Arkright, an old friend of Carnacki's, in some distress. Carnacki and the Doctor help him get home where he tells them how the tent he was in whilst exploring developed the wallpaper of a house that he believes is haunting him and that he immediately returned to London, where he saw the wallpaper out of the corner of his eye wherever he went.
to be completed
Part two[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Carnacki - Dan Starkey
- Arkright / Young Arkright / Boy / Fungi Voice - Harry Hart
- Young Carnacki - Joe Jameson
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Carnacki lives at 427 Cheyne Walk.
- Arkright is a mycologist.
- Carnacki uses garlic and chalk to produce a warding circle against paranormal activity in the TARDIS control room.
- He later produces an electric pentacle.
- The Doctor is incredibly partial to homemade crème brûlée. He visits the TARDIS kitchens to retrieve some garlic cloves.
- On the way, the Doctor mentions, he gets lost between the TARDIS swimming pool and the old bedrooms.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Arkright is a recurring character from the original Carnacki stories, being among the group of friends that Carnacki relays his adventures to.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Carnacki immediately recognises the Doctor from AUDIO: The Haunter of the Shore [+]Loading...["The Haunter of the Shore (audio story)"]. They now regard one another as old acquaintances.
- Carnacki mentions encountering "reptilian detectives". He met Vastra and the Paternoster Gang in AUDIO: The Screaming Ceiling [+]Loading...["The Screaming Ceiling (audio story)"].
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Official The House page at bigfinish.com
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