The Horror (audio story)

The Horror was the third and final story in the audio anthology He Who Fights With Monsters, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Robert Valentine and featured Jonathon Carley as the War Doctor, Ken Bones as The General and Nicholas Le Prevost as the Barber-Surgeon.

Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor is missing in action. As Gallifrey and Skaro face total destruction, Time Lord and Dalek forces converge on the realm of the Barber-Surgeon. From his junkyard fortress in a lost dimension, the renegade warmonger is about to create his ultimate weapon...Who or what can possibly stop him?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The War Doctor - Jonathon Carley
• The General - Ken Bones
• The Barber-Surgeon - Nicholas Le Prevost
• Dalek Hunter-Killer - Jason Merrells
• The Constable / Comms Officer - Richie Daysh
• The Companion / Time Lord Navigator - Paksie Vernon
• The Daleks / D9 - Nicholas Briggs

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Doctor calls out to Susan, Sarah, Leela, Romana and Ace.
• The Constable sings "Here we go round the prickly pear at five o’clock in the morning" which is a quotation from The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot, the same poem which the Barber-Surgeon referenced in The Mission.
• The Constable uses matches that don't go out, and claims that 'the Foreman' invented them.
• The Constable refers to the Barber-Surgeon as 'the Foreman'.
• The Hunter-Killer orders Daleks to consult the Pathweb.
• The Dalek Emperor sends Special Weapons Daleks to destroy the Dalek Time Strategist.
• The Barber-Surgeon's ultimate weapon is a temporal obliterator called 'the Unforgiving Minute' which he described as a 'trap for fools' that the Doctor must flee with 'sixty seconds' worth of distance run'; all quotes from the poem If— by Rudyard Kipling.
• The Barber-Surgeon provides the War Doctor with a Time Ring to escape from his domain.
• The Doctor reasons that, now that the Barber-Surgeon has been wiped from history, his campaign and the deaths he brought about have been averted as well.

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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Barber-Surgeon has set up base in Totter's Yard. (TV: An Unearthly Child et al.)
• The Barber-Surgeon has previously met a version of the Doctor who met Ian and Barbara at Barnes Common after a car crash, rather than Totter's Lane. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks)
• The Doctor and the Barber-Surgeon discuss the Surgeon's killing of the War Master. (AUDIO: The Abyss)
• The Barber-Surgeon mentions the Doctor and the Master's battles during his "UNIT days". (TV: Terror of the Autons)
• The Dalek Emperor considers itself a god. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)
• As he dies the Barber-Surgeon notes that "the moment has been prepared for", (TV: Logopolis) which the Doctor later ponders if it was a hint towards the end of the War. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Official The Horror page at bigfinish.com