This is a collection of short stories based on Doctor Who, the long running British science-fiction television show.  This continues a short story collection originally introduced by Virgin Publishing's Doctor Who series and then continued in the BBC Books Short Trips collection.

The creature came for Dr Donald Morton in the small hours of the next morning.  It was heralded by an almighty tremor, and by an awful sense of loss.  Nyssa knew that Morton had gone, and grieves although she had never met him.  She sound herself slipping on her shoes and wandering to the top of the main staircase, where she discovered the Doctor, Patricia and Jean.
    'I take it we all felt the same thing?' said the Doctor.
    'Everybody felt it,' said Jean, in a dulled voice.  'Morton has been taken.  You responded because you are still new.  In time you will rest more easily through relief that the creature did not take you.  I alone maintain a vigil for those who have passed beyond.'
    The Doctor stared at her, and seemed lost for words.  At last, without speaking, he turned and hared down the stairs.  Nyssa called to him, but he ignored her.  She followed him instinctively.