Blood Harvest (Dicks novel) explained

Blood Harvest
Cover Artist:Bill Donohoe
Author:Terrance Dicks
Series:Doctor Who book:
Virgin New Adventures
Release Number:28
Subject:Featuring:
Seventh Doctor
Ace, Benny
Release Date:July 1994
Publisher:Virgin Books
Isbn:0-426-20417-4
Preceded By:All-Consuming Fire
Followed By:Strange England

Blood Harvest is an original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features vampires in common with Dicks's 1980 television serial State of Decay and makes reference to that story's events as well as to those of "The Five Doctors". The events of this story are concluded in the first of the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Goth Opera by Paul Cornell. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Dicks, appeared in Doctor Who Magazine #214.

Plot

While the Seventh Doctor and Ace team up with a hard bitten PI in 1929 Chicago, Bernice is stranded on a vampire-infested world with the Doctor's former companion Romana.

The chief monster is a supernaturally powerful creature called Agonal, an elemental who feeds on agony and death and so seeks as much of it as he can. Rassilon traps Agonal in his tomb, just as he trapped Borusa in the television story "The Five Doctors".

Continuity

Notes and References

  1. Frankham-Allen, Andy (2013): Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants. Cardiff: Candy Jar books. P. 89
  2. Sandifer, Elizabeth (2012): TARDIS Eruditorum: An Unauthorized Critical History of Doctor Who Volume 2: Patrick Troughton. Smashwords Edition. P. 100