The Nightmare of Black Island
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| Author | Mike Tucker |
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Doctor Who book: New Series Adventures |
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Release number
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10 |
| Subject | Featuring: Tenth Doctor Rose |
| Set in | Period between "The Age of Steel" and "Army of Ghosts" |
| Publisher | BBC Books |
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Publication date
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21 September 2006 |
| Pages | 256 |
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| Preceded by | I am a Dalek |
| Followed by | The Art of Destruction |
The Nightmare of Black Island is a BBC Books original novel written by Mike Tucker and based on the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was published on 21 September 2006, alongside The Art of Destruction and The Price of Paradise. It features the Tenth Doctor and Rose.
On a lonely stretch of Welsh coastline, a fisherman is killed by a hideous creature from beneath the waves. When the Doctor and Rose arrive, they discover a village where the children are plagued by nightmares, and the nights are ruled by monsters. Bronwyn Ceredig, the old woman of the village, suspects that ailing industrialist Nathaniel Morton is to blame, but the Doctor has suspicions of his own.
While in flight, the TARDIS and Rose dream of a fisherman who is attacked by a creature from the sea. Also appearing in the dream is an 'observer': a young boy. Tracing the source, the Doctor takes them to Ynys Du, a small village on the Welsh coast. They discover that the villagers are terrorised by fantastical monsters which roam the streets and woods at night; the adults are anxious and the children all have nightmares.
The trouble seems to have begun when an elderly Nathaniel Morton returned to the village after many years away and established a 'nursing home' in the old rectory. Here, six ancient figures sleep, attached to machines and attended by masked technicians.
The Doctor knows something is wrong, as the monsters do not appear to be the product of a normal evolutionary process. He traces an interference signal to the abandoned lighthouse on Black Island. Exploring the island with an eccentric local woman, Bronwyn, the Doctor finds an 'interstellar space-hopper' and, in the lamp room of the lighthouse, a psychic transmitter/receiver. Understanding that this is causing the children's nightmares, in turn realising the monsters they dream about, the Doctor is reluctant to dismantle the machine and risk damaging the children. He cannot reach the controls of the telepathic circuits as they are underneath the machine.
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