Nightshade (Doctor Who)

Doctor Who book
Nightshade
Series	Virgin New Adventures
Release number	8
Featuring	Seventh Doctor Ace
Writer	Mark Gatiss
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-426-20376-3
Release date	August 1992
Preceded by	Cat's Cradle: Witchmark
Followed by	Love and War

Nightshade is an original novel written by Mark Gatiss and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Gatiss, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #190.

As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

Synopsis

The Doctor and Ace end up in the village of Crook Marsham in 1968. The Doctor contemplates retiring and Ace falls in love with local boy Robin Yeadon. In a nearby retirement home, Edmund Trevithick, who once played the fictional character known as Professor Nightshade in the BBC t.v series of the same title, begins to see other fictional characters from the programme as if they were real. The Doctor realizes that Crook Marsham has had many unexplained deaths throughout history. The villagers are then plagued by appearances of lost loved ones.

External links

• Nightshade Prelude
• Nightshade at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Cloister Library - Nightshade
• Nightshade at The TARDIS Library

Reviews

• Nightshade reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• Nightshade reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide