Dr Who and the Monster of Fang Rock
Obverse Books charity novel
In an Edwardian gentleman’s club, the members gather to hear a new member tell the terrible tale of what befell the keepers of Fang Rock lighthouse...
Several years earlier, Dr Who arrived on Fang Rock at the same time as a shipwrecked yacht... and another visitor from much further afield...
Fang Rock and the club are bound together by more than a simple story....
Notes: After completing The Six Doctors, I thought that was the end for Peter Cushing's Dr Who. But... it's hard to leave the Cushingverse behind. It's a safe place for me, and it may have kept me sane during the Covid lockdowns when I spent almost a year alone, and during an illness, the worst of which lasted eight or nine months. So, I came up with a backstory for why Auntie Beeb would do another radio special around the same time as The Six Doctors, but the real breakthrough came from my mate Dan McGachey who took about two minutes to come up with a really elegant solution of the Edwardian gentleman's club. Dan is a very, very talented man. When I was writing this I was really concerned I was just doing a carbon copy of the TV story so I did a fair bit of changing to the latter two thirds and went back to the opening third for some tweaking. All things considered I think it came out rather well. And while this is categorically Cushing's final broadcast adventure, we can always go back and fill in some gaps like the remaining two Christmas specials and the "lost" movies and radio series. That's wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey for you.
Several years earlier, Dr Who arrived on Fang Rock at the same time as a shipwrecked yacht... and another visitor from much further afield...
Fang Rock and the club are bound together by more than a simple story....
Notes: After completing The Six Doctors, I thought that was the end for Peter Cushing's Dr Who. But... it's hard to leave the Cushingverse behind. It's a safe place for me, and it may have kept me sane during the Covid lockdowns when I spent almost a year alone, and during an illness, the worst of which lasted eight or nine months. So, I came up with a backstory for why Auntie Beeb would do another radio special around the same time as The Six Doctors, but the real breakthrough came from my mate Dan McGachey who took about two minutes to come up with a really elegant solution of the Edwardian gentleman's club. Dan is a very, very talented man. When I was writing this I was really concerned I was just doing a carbon copy of the TV story so I did a fair bit of changing to the latter two thirds and went back to the opening third for some tweaking. All things considered I think it came out rather well. And while this is categorically Cushing's final broadcast adventure, we can always go back and fill in some gaps like the remaining two Christmas specials and the "lost" movies and radio series. That's wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey for you.