The Ultimate Monster Guide (reference book)
Doctor Who: The Ultimate Monster Guide was a compilation of illustrated guides, written by Justin Richards and was published in October 2009. It collected together material previously published in PROSE: Monsters and Villains, PROSE: Aliens and Enemies, PROSE: Creatures and Demons, and to a lesser extent PROSE: Starships and Spacestations; along with additional new material.
It covers the period up to the Easter Special, TV: Planet of the Dead.
Publisher's summary[[edit]]
With The Ultimate Monster Guide, Doctor Who historian Justin Richards has created the most comprehensive guide to the Doctor's enemies ever published. With fully illustrated entries that cover everything from Adipose and Autons to Zarbi and Zygons, this guide tells you everything you need to know about the many dastardly creatures the Doctor has fought since he first appeared on television.
Featuring a wealth of material from the current and classic series, the Guide also includes behind-the-scenes secrets of how the monsters were created, as well as design drawings and images. Find out how the Cybermen were redesigned over the years, and how Davros was resurrected to lead his Daleks once again. Discover the computer magic that made the Beast possible, and the make-up wizardry that created the Weeping Angels. Learn how many incarnations of the Master the Doctor has encountered, and which other misguided Time Lords he has defeated...
Lavishly designed with photos and artwork throughout, The Ultimate Monster Guide is essential reading for all travellers in time and space!
Contents[[edit]]
Alphabetically arranged topics, with featured episode details, glossaries and for the newer stories behind the scenes insights.
- All the Strange, Strange Creatures...
- The Abzorbaloff
- Making Monsters
- The Adipose
- Creating the Adipose
- The Alien Ambassadors
- The Autons
- Colonisation
- Living Plastic
- Resurrecting the Autons
- Resurrecting the Autons
- The Axons
- The Beast
- The Satan Code
- The Carrionites
- A Muse of Fire
- All the World's a Stage
- Cassandra
- Making Up Cassandra
- The Celestial Toymaker
- The Clockwork Robots
- Scripting the Clockwork Robots
- Making the Clockwork Robots
- The Cybermen
- Creating the Cybermen
- John Lumic
- Re-Scripting the Cybermen
- Recreating the Cybermen
- Rebuilding the Cybermen
- The Cyber Controller
- Scripting Army of Ghosts
- Cyber Invasion
- Behind the Scenes
- The Dæmons
- The Daleks
- Creating the Daleks
- Reinventing the Daleks
- Building Daleks
- Scary Stories
- Emperors of the Daleks
- Devising the Emperor
- Epic Elements
- The Final End
- Dalek Military Computer
- Epic Elements
- Bringing Daleks to Life
- Humanising a Dalek
- Two Doctors
- Supreme Design
- Creating Davros
- Davros Lives!
- The Destroyer
- The Empty Child
- Recreating the Blitz
- The Face of Boe
- The Family of Blood
- Bringing the Family to Life
- The Gelth
- Bringing Back the Dead
- Giant Maggots
- The Giant Robot
- Giant Spiders
- Magnus Greel
- The Haemovores
- The Hath
- Scripting the Hath
- The Heavenly Host
- Max Capricorn
- The Ice Warriors
- Creating the Ice Warriors
- The Isolus
- Word Pictures
- Creating the Isolus Child
- The Jagrafess
- The The Judoon
- Making Monsters
- The Shadow Proclamation
- The Krillitanes
- Scripting the Krillitanes
- The Krynoid
- The Land of Fiction
- The Lazarus Creature
- An Old Enemy
- The Macra
- Building New New York
- The Master
- Please Attend Carefully
- Midnight Entity
- Morbius
- New Earth
- Visiting New Earth
- Infecting the Patients
- The Hospital
- Making the Sisters
- Ogri
- Going in Circles
- The Ogrons and Draconians
- Omega
- The Ood
- Bringing the Ood to Life
- The Ood-Sphere
- Becoming an Ood
- Platform One: The Visitors
- Platform One
- Creating the Moxx
- An Invite to the End
- The Pyroviles
- Volcano Day
- Quarks
- The Racnoss
- Creating the Empress
- Follow that Cab!
- The Rani
- The Sandminer Robots
- Santa Robots
- Scaroth
- Sharaz Jek
- Sil and the Mentors
- Silurians and Sea Devils
- The Slitheen
- Infiltration!
- Pigs in Space
- Aliens are Here!
- The Slitheen Take Shape
- Computing Aliens
- The Sontarans
- Making Up Sontarans
- War in the Sky
- Stingrays and Tritivores
- Crime Lady
- Another World in Another Sky
- Sutekh and the Mummies
- The Sycorax
- Invasion!
- Rock Painting
- Creating the Sycorax
- The Terileptils
- The Trickster's Brigade
- Beetling About
- The Vashta Nerada
- Deepening Shadows
- Walking the Dead
- The Vervoids
- The Vespiform
- Whodunit?
- The War Machines
- The Weed Creature
- Creating the Creature
- The Weeping Angels
- Making Angels
- The Werewolf
- Storyboards
- The Host
- Making 'Tooth and Claw'
- The Wire
- The Big Fight
- The Wirrn
- The Yeti
- Making Yeti
- Setting the Scene
- The Zarbi
- Creating Zarbi
- The Zygons
- Monster Making
Fictional material[[edit]]
The book also included the several short stories written by Russell T Davies, Gareth Roberts & Mark Gatiss, which fleshed out the series' world, from PROSE: Monsters and Villains and PROSE: Creatures and Demons.
- Lives of the Rich and Thin
- A Muse of Fire
- A Previously Undiscovered Shakespeare Manuscript
- Legends of the Universe
- From the Platform One Guest List
- Security Procedures[1]
- The Family Slitheen[1]
- Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Notable features[[edit]]
- Additional references include the Quarks in the 1960s comic strip adventures and the Family of Blood from Virgin Books New Adventures novels.
- A number of colour photographs from black and white stories is a bonus attraction in this comprehensive guide.
- There is reference to Yarvelling in the Genesis of the Daleks article.
- The Sarah Jane Adventures is mentioned in the Slitheen and Trickster articles.
- Torchwood is mentioned in the Cyberman and Slitheen articles.
- In the Family of Blood's article, there is a full-page spread about the novel which inspired it.
- Attack of the Graske is mentioned in the Sycorax article.
- There are Making-of segments in the following articles: Abzorbaloff, Adipose, Autons (specifically the Nestene Consciousness), Axons, The Beast, Cassandra, Clockwork Droids, Cybermen, Daleks, Empty Child, Gelth, Heavenly Host (specifically the Titanic), Ice Warriors, Isolus, Jagrafess (specifically Satellite Five), Judoon, Krillitanes, Lazarus, Macra, The Master (specifically Toclafane and the wizened Doctor), New Earth (specifically the Patients and the Sisters of Plenitude), Ogri, Ood, Platform One, Pyroviles, Quarks, Racnoss, Slitheen, Sontarans, Stingrays and Tritovores, Sutekh (specifically the Mummies), Sycorax, Terileptils, Trickster (specifically the Time Beetle), Vashta Nerada, weed creature, Weeping Angels, Werewolf, The Wire, Yeti, Zarbi, Zygons.
- There are special backstories in the following articles: Carrionites (entitled "A Muse of Fire"), Cassandra (entitled "Lives of the Rich and Thin"), Clockwork Droids (Madame de Pompadour specifically, entitled "Scripting the Clockwork Robots"), the Face of Boe (entitled "Legends of the Universe"), New Earth (entitled "The Hospital"), Platform One ("From the Platform One Guest List" for the Forest of Cheem, "Security Procedures" for the Moxx of Balhoon), Slitheen (entitled "The Family Slitheen").
- There is concept art in the following articles: Autons, The Beast, Carrionites, Cassandra, Clockwork Droids, Cybermen, Daleks, Empty Child, The Face of Boe, Heavenly Host (specifically Max Capricorn), Isolus, Judoon, Lazarus, Macra (specifically New New York), The Master (specifically the aged Doctor and Valiant), New Earth (specifically the Sisters of Plenitude), Ood, Platform One, Pyroviles (specifically Pompeii), Quarks, Racnoss, Santa Robots, Slitheen, Sontarans, Sycorax, Vespiform.
- There are script extracts in the following articles: Autons (Rose), Cassandra (The End of the World), Cybermen (The Tenth Planet, Rise of the Cybermen, Army of Ghosts), Daleks (two from The Daleks, one from The Stolen Earth), Hath (The Doctor's Daughter), Krillitanes (School Reunion), New Earth (New Earth), Sontarans (The Sontaran Stratagem), Stingrays (Planet of the Dead), Vespiform (The Unicorn and the Wasp), Weeping Angels (Blink).
- There are storyboards in the following articles: Daleks (Doomsday), Werewolf (Tooth and Claw).
Additional notes[[edit]]
- Curiously, it is missing an entry for the Reapers which was in Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies. This is the only entry not carried over from the three books it collects.
Publication history[[edit]]
- This hardback only title with a printed cover (designed by Lee Binding @ tea-lady.co.uk) and no dust jacket was priced £15.99 (UK).
