Ghost Ship

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Author(s):

Keith Topping

First Pub:

2002

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

2002

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 10

Prologue - The Void

1 - Once Upon a Midnight, Dreary

2 - I'll Sail This Ship Alone

3 - Dead Souls

4 - Cabin 672

5 - Atlantic Ocean Drift

6 - A Warning to the Curious

7 - Behind that Locked Door

8 - Dispossessed

Epilogue - Oh, How the Ghost of You Clings

Internal ID:

394

Series:

Nightdreamers
Foreign Devils

Doctor Who - Telos Novellas*

#4 of 15

Doctor Who - Telos Novellas*

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1) Time and Relative
2) Citadel of Dreams
3) Nightdreamers
4) Ghost Ship
5) Foreign Devils
6) Rip Tide
7) Wonderland
8) Shell Shock
9) The Cabinet of Light
10) Fallen Gods
11) Frayed
12) The Eye of the Tyger
13) Companion Piece
14) Blood and Hope
15) The Dalek Factor

Copyright:

Dedication:

Ghost Ship is dedicated to the very lovely Robert Franks, David Howe, John Molyneux, Jason Tucker and Michelle Wolf. And all of the other lost souls on the good Queen Mary. Past, present and future.

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Extract (may contain spoilers)

The visitations then continued all over the ship wherever I wondered, and my apprehension increased with each successive sighting. Sometimes they were very ill-defined, almost wisps of cotton-wool cloud passing briefly through the periphery of my vision either to left or to right, to become lost in the labyrinth of corridors and rooms. On other occasions there were forms that I could almost recognise as human. With arms and legs, torsos and faces. Still little more that afterthoughts and translucent, but with substance.
With meaning.
And, also, with a curious, disarming smell. A caustic, pungent, sickly sweet aroma that reminded me of burning rope and rotting skin, but also rosemary and oranges and wet autumn leaves. Not unpleasant, exactly, or disgusting in the way that a strange smell in an unusual context can often be.
Whatever the meaning was, I had to know more.

Characters

Doctor 4 - (Doctor)

Added: 21-Feb-2003

Last Updated: 07-Apr-2020

22-Aug-2002

Telos Publishing

Hardback

Date Issued:

22-Aug-2002

Format:

Hardback

Pages*:

104

Read:

Once

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

261

Publisher:

Telos Publishing

ISBN:

1-903-88908-1

ISBN-13:

978-1-903-88908-4

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Dariusz Jasiczak - Illustrator
Hugh Lamb - Foreword

Perhaps sensing the Doctor's deepening mood of introspective melancholy, the TARDIS lands in the most haunted place on Earth, the luxury ocean liner the Queen Mary on its way from Southampton to New York in the year 1963.

But why do ghosts from the past, the present and, perhaps even the future, seek out the Doctor? What appalling secret is hidden in Cabin 672?

And will the Doctor be able to preserve his sanity as he struggles to save the lives of the passengers against mighty forces which even he does not fully understand?

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Notes and Comments:

18-Dec-2003

Telos Publishing

Date Issued:

18-Dec-2003

Internal ID:

1275

Publisher:

Telos Publishing

ISBN:

1-903-88932-4

ISBN-13:

978-1-903-88932-9

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Dariusz Jasiczak - Illustrator
Hugh Lamb - Foreword

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Telos Publishing
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18-Dec-2003
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Keith Topping
Birth: 26 Oct 1963 Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Notes:

From About the Author in the back of the book Ghost Ship:

Bohemian womaniser, revolutionary spirit and general all-round sleazeball, Keith Topping is a journalist and author of over twenty books including two editions of The Guinness Book of Classic British TV, numerous guides to TV series as diverse as The X-Files, Star Trek, The Avengers and Roswell for Virgin Books, four BBC Doctor Who novels (including the award-winning The Hollow Men) and the best-selling Slayer: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Inside Bartlet's White House. He has written for many TV and genre magazines including Starburst and Shivers and is a former Contributing Editor of Dream Watch, specialising in coverage of US series such as Buffy, Angel, Stargate SG-1 and The West Wing.

Keith was born on sunny Tyneside on the same day in 1963 that his beloved Newcastle United lost 3-2 at home to Northampton Town. Things have improved a bit since then. He began his journalistic career whilst he was still working for the civil service (he has since escaped), writing for music, TV and football fanzines. He regularly appears on local radio and also contributed to the BBC television series I Love the 70s. He is currently co-scripting, with Martin Day, a proposed TV series for an independent production company. His hobbies include socialising with friends, foreign travel, very loud pop music, trashy British horror movies, current affairs and military history. His autobiography, I've Had Her, will be published posthumously.

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