White Darkness (novel): Difference between revisions

'''''White Darkness''''' is the fifteenth instalment in the series of [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventure]] stories published by [[Virgin Publishing]] in the [[1990s]]. The story is set in [[Haiti]], [[1915]] and features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Ace]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]]. The book was written by [[David A. McIntee]], who derived much of the story's material from [[Wikipedia:Wade Davis|Wade Davis]]' ''The Serpent and the Rainbow'', a research into the practice of [[voodoo]] and zombification in Haiti and the ''Cthulhu Mythos'' created by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. Lovecraft's name was given to one of the principal characters in the story, Dr. [[Howard Phillips]], who at one point presents the Doctor with a copy of the ''[[Necronomicon]]'' was given to him by [[Aleister Crowley]] and written in the original [[Eocene (language)|Eocene]] language.