Release number 28 ISBN 0-426-20417-4 Followed by Strange England Publisher Virgin Books | Publication date July 1994 Originally published July 1994 Preceded by All-Consuming Fire Genre Speculative fiction | |
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Series Doctor Who book:
Virgin New Adventures Subject Featuring:
Seventh Doctor
Ace, Benny Similar Terrance Dicks books, Virgin New Adventures books, Speculative fiction books | ||
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.
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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 such as he can. Rassilon traps Agonal in his tomb, just as he trapped Borusa in the television story The Five Doctors.