Doctor Who And The Daemons, Barry Letts
Doctor Who And The Daemons, Barry Letts
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Doctor Who And The Daemons

Author: Barry Letts

Narrator: Barry Letts, Barry Letts

Unabridged: 5 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2008

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Barry Letts reads his own gripping novelisation of a classic ‘Doctor Who’ adventure, another entry in our range of unabridged readings, first published by Target Books in the 1970s & 1980s. Doctor Who is strangely concerned about Professor Horner's plan to cut open an ancient barrow near the peaceful English village of Devil's End; equally worried is Miss Hawthorne, the local white witch, who foretells a terrible disaster if he goes ahead. Determined that the Professor should is Mr Magister, the new vicar (in truth the MASTER) whose secret ceremonies are designed to conjure up from out of the barrow a horribly powerful being from a far-off planet... The Brigadier and Jo Grant assist Doctor Who in this exciting confrontation with the forces of black magic!

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ken on July 02, 2019

One of the best Third Doctor stories gets an equally great novelisations by one of the stories original writers, it’s a shame that this is Letts only novel for the Target range. The story plays with themes of magic and the occult can be explained by scientific reasoning, especially as one of the thre......more

Goodreads review by Craig on August 17, 2021

This is one of my very favorite Doctor Who novelizations. The episode was first broadcast in May and June of 1971, and was the fifth and final serial of the show's eighth season. It starred the third version of The Doctor, who was accompanied by the fierce and feisty Jo Grant. The UNIT team played a......more

Goodreads review by Ivana on July 28, 2022

A really close adaptation of the televised story with few emellishments, other than Sam. Illustrations by Alan Willow this time.......more

Goodreads review by stormhawk on March 08, 2012

The Doctor's adventures don't get much more exciting than this ... a quaint village in the English countryside, magickal ceremonies straight out of the Aleister Crowley playbook, Daemons, the Master, and (shudder) Morris Dancing. Possibly the most sinister Morris Dancing in the history of English le......more

Goodreads review by Nicholas on October 23, 2022

[URL not allowed] This was one of those books which, on rereading, very much lived up to my fond childhood memories. It is funny, witty, adds bags of backstory to both minor and major characters (the account of the Doctor and the Master growing up together on Gallifrey o......more