Nightshade is an original novel written by Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss

Mark Gatiss is an English actor, screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as a member of the comedy team The League of Gentlemen, and has both written for and acted in the TV series Doctor Who and Sherlock....

 and based on the long-running British

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 science fiction television

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 series Doctor Who

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. It features the Seventh Doctor

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 and Ace

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. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Gatiss, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine

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#190.

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
• The Cloister Library - Nightshade