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There’s no escape from Nevermore, whose raven-like robot jailers serve to demonstrate Uglosi’s macabre obsession with the works of the [[19th century]] horror writer [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. An obsession that might yet lead to the premature burial of everyone on the planet’s surface – wreathed in the mist they call the Red Death!

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== References ==

* Nevermore was previously called Corinth Minor located in [[Cassopeia]], which contained [[volcano]]es that showered semi-precious gemstones instead of lava. It became a playground for the rich and famous including General Verdagast. The general was involved in what the Doctor describes as a "particularly nasty factional war" against one of the rival Cassopeian colonies. His rival, General Morella Wendigo, detonated a biological weapon in Corinth Minor's troposphere. Faced with the outbreak of a previously unknown flesh-eating plague, the Galactic Authority sought the help of the [[Time Lord]]s. The Time Lords passed the planet through a belt of ultraviolet radiation, killing almost the entire population of the planet through the [[Red Death]]. The authorities renamed it "Nevermore" as a reminder of the folly of war. Wendigo was sentenced by a war crimes tribunal to a lifetime of exile to Nevermore so that she could contemplate her crimes.

* During her childhood, Uglosi read Poe's works to Berenice every night including ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'', ''The Tell-Tale Heart'', ''The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'' and ''The Mystery of Marie Rogêt''.

* Protocol Roderick is a reference to Poe's short story ''The Fall of the House of Usher''.

* The Doctor quotes extensively from ''The Raven'' by [[Edgar Allan Poe]].

* The Doctor met Poe in the autumn of [[1849]] in [[Baltimore]] where his title was mistaken for a medical qualification. He was asked to attend to Poe who was in a bar sitting among a crowd of drunks but was completely sober.

* The pilot of the ship which flew Senior Prosecutor Uglosi and Dr. Berenice Ward to Nevermore lost his eyes by looking into a sunburst several years earlier. He was then fitted with bionic eyes.

* Tamsin did a module on escapology in drama school.

* Berenice was a survivor of the Red Death, whom Uglosi adopted due to his guilt. She is a mutant who leeches psychic energy from those around her, feeding a shadow entity which the Doctor believes to be composed of supraviolet radiation.

*The robot-like ravens are modelled after the relevant bird because of Senior Prosecutor Uglosi's obsession with Poe's works. Uglosi later quotes from Poe's ''The Black Cat'' and ''The Pit and the Pendulum'' whereas Berenice Ward quotes from ''The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket''.

* The TARDIS has a mile of [[Margate]] beach with [[seagull]]s, a laundry, a greenhouse and a sauna.

* After the black cat appears in the console room, Tamsin refers to ''[[Bagpuss]]'' and ''Animals Do the Funniest Things''.

* The black cat is a messenger from the Time Lords and is far more intelligent than she appears. She tells the Doctor that he must apprehend the renegade Time Lord who told Uglosi of the Corinth Compact twenty years earlier.