Doctor Who: Forever Autumn
It is almost Halloween in the sleepy New England town of Blackwood Falls. Autumn leaves litter lawns and sidewalks, paper skeletons hang in windows and carved pumpkins leer from stoops and front porches. The Doctor and Martha soon discover that something long-dormant has awoken in the town, and...
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It is almost Halloween in the sleepy New England town of Blackwood Falls. Autumn leaves litter lawns and sidewalks, paper skeletons hang in windows and carved pumpkins leer from stoops and front porches. The Doctor and Martha soon discover that something long-dormant has awoken in the town, and this will be no ordinary Halloween. What is the secret of the ancient chestnut tree and the mysterious books discovered tangled in its roots? What rises from the local churchyard in the dead of night, sealing up the lips of the only witness? And why are the harmless trappings of Halloween suddenly taking on a creepy new life of their own? As nightmarish creatures prowl the streets, the Doctor and Martha must battle to prevent both the townspeople and themselves from suffering a grisly fate...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781846072703 (1846072700)
Publish date: September 6th 2007
Publisher: BBC Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Media Tie In,
Culture,
Film,
Time Travel,
Tv,
Doctor Who
Series: Doctor Who: New Series Adventures (#16)
A fun, quick, and quirky, read for Halloween, one of the best, in my opinion, of the new series novels (and the best offering Mark Morris has contributed to the brand period), I read this one every year. Blending the atmosphere of movies like John Carpenter's The Fog with the whimsy of Monster Squad...
Doctor Who: Forever Autumn by Mark Morris (Audiobook) My rating: 4 of 5 stars I listened to this as an audiobook. Forever Autumn, as can be seen by the cover, is a Halloween story. I did wish I had kept it to Halloween, but I'm going through the books in publication order, and this was next. Th...
This was an average Doctor Who book. The author (first time I think writing a Doctor Who book) uses way too many manic tics of the actor into the dialogs. The repetitious words, in this case "very" instead of "new" and the New in New Earth was kinda of a joke. Anyway, the idea for the plot was inter...