The Crawling Terror (novel): Difference between revisions

Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. 'Mummy there's a daddy longlegs in my room!' Then the screaming starts... Alan Travers is heading home from the pub when something rushes his face - a [[spider]]'s web. Then something huge and deadly lumbers from the shadows... Kevin Alperton is on his way to school when he is attacked by a [[mosquito]]. A big one. Then things get dangerous.

But it isn't the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries [[Twelfth Doctor|the Doctor]]. It isn't the swarming, mutated insects that make him nervous. It isn't an old man's garbled memories of past dangers that intrigue him.   

With the village cut off from the outside world, and the insects becoming more and more dangerous, the Doctor knows that no one is safe. Not unless he can decode the strange symbols engraved on an ancient [[stone]] circle, and unravel a mystery dating back to the [[Second World War]].

* The story introduces a new villan, the Wyrresters, a species of giant scorpion-like aliens.

* The Doctor asks for [[Charlie Bevan]] to help him take a motorbike back to the TARDIS as he is uncertain how his new body will perform despite his use of a motorbike in his [[Eleventh Doctor|previous incarnation]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'').

* The entire populace of a town being the hypnotic effects of strange substance has happened before. ([[TV|TV:]] ''[[The Crimson Horror (TV story)|The Crimson Horror]]'')