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doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] | | doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] | | ||
companions= [[ | companions= [[Ace]] | | ||
enemy= [[Light]], [[Josiah Samuel Smith|Josiah Smith]] | | enemy= [[Light]], [[Josiah Samuel Smith|Josiah Smith]] | | ||
year= [[Perivale]] / [[Earth]], 1883 | | year= [[Perivale]] / [[Earth]], 1883 | | ||
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==Publisher's Cover Blurb== | ==Publisher's Cover Blurb== | ||
[[Perivale]], [[1983]]<br> | [[Perivale]], [[1983]]<br /> A column of smoke rises from the blazing ruins of a forgotten, decaying mansion. Perivale, [[1883]]<br /> In the sleepy, rural parish of [[Greenford Parva]], [[Gabriel Chase]] is by far the most imposing edifice. The villagers shun the grim house, but the owner, the reclusive and controversial naturalist [[Josiah Samuel Smith]], receives occasional visitors. <br /> The Reverend [[Ernest Matthews|Ernest Mathews]], for instance, dean of Mortarhouse College, has travelled from [[Oxford]] to refute Smith’s blasphemous theories of evolution. <br /> And in a deserted upstairs room, [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Ace]] venture from [[Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to explore the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] mansion …<br /> Who – or what – is Josiah Smith? What terrible secrets does his house conceal? And why does Ace find everything so frightening familiar? | ||
A column of smoke rises from the blazing ruins of a forgotten, decaying mansion. | |||
Perivale, [[1883]]<br> | |||
In the sleepy, rural parish of [[Greenford Parva]], [[Gabriel Chase]] is by far the most imposing edifice. The villagers shun the grim house, but the owner, the reclusive and controversial naturalist [[Josiah Samuel Smith]], receives occasional visitors. <br> | |||
The Reverend [[Ernest Matthews|Ernest Mathews]], for instance, dean of Mortarhouse College, has travelled from [[Oxford]] to refute Smith’s blasphemous theories of evolution. <br> | |||
And in a deserted upstairs room, [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] and [[Ace]] venture from [[Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to explore the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] mansion …<br> | |||
Who – or what – is Josiah Smith? What terrible secrets does his house conceal? And why does Ace find everything so frightening familiar? | |||
==Illustrations== | ==Illustrations== | ||
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* '''[[The Target Book]]''' by [[David J Howe]] ([[Telos Publishing]] 2007) | * '''[[The Target Book]]''' by [[David J Howe]] ([[Telos Publishing]] 2007) | ||
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/general/main.htm ''On Target'' a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal] | * [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/general/main.htm ''On Target'' a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal] | ||
[[Category:Target Novelisations]] | [[Category:Target Novelisations]] | ||
[[Category:1990 novels]] | [[Category:1990 novels]] | ||
