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* Uglosi tells the Doctor that a "[[The Monk|strange little man]]" was brought before his court on a vagrancy charge twenty years earlier. | * Uglosi tells the Doctor that a "[[The Monk|strange little man]]" was brought before his court on a vagrancy charge twenty years earlier. | ||
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* After the black cat appears in the TARDIS console room, Tamsin refers to ''[[Bagpuss]]'' and ''[[Animals Do the Funniest Things]]''. | * After the black cat appears in the TARDIS console room, Tamsin refers to ''[[Bagpuss]]'' and ''[[Animals Do the Funniest Things]]''. | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* The story has numerous influences from Poe's canon of work. 'Nevermore' is also the word the Raven caws in ''[[The Raven]]'', whilst the robotic ravens derive from the same story; a black cat is the focus of | * The story has numerous influences from Poe's canon of work. 'Nevermore' is also the word the Raven caws in ''[[The Raven]]'', whilst the robotic ravens derive from the same story; a black cat is the focus of {{wi|The Black Cat (short story)|The Black Cat}}; the mist of the Red Death is a reference to the titular plague of {{wi|The Masque of the Red Death}}. | ||
* The story was broadcast on | * The story was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4 Extra]] on [[9 January (releases)|9]] [[7 January (releases)|January]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]]. | ||
* The Doctor mentions being called to attend Poe, three days before his death in 1849. He died of an unknown illness on October 7th of that year, after being found delirious on a [[Baltimore]] street on October 3rd. | * The Doctor mentions being called to attend Poe, three days before his death in 1849. He died of an unknown illness on October 7th of that year, after being found delirious on a [[Baltimore]] street on October 3rd. | ||
