Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark

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Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
Series:	Doctor Who - Virgin New Adventures
Release Number:	7
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companions:	Ace
Enemy:	Nuada
Setting:	Earth, Wales, Llanfer Ceiriog, Tír na n-Óg
Author:	Andrew Hunt
Publisher:	Virgin Books
Publication:	June 1992
Format:	Paperback Book, 256 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0426203682
Previous Story:	Cat's Cradle: Warhead
Following Story:	Nightshade

Contents 1 Publisher's Summary 2 Characters 3 References 3.1 Food and Beverages 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 External Links

[edit] Publisher's Summary

'Spare no sympathy for those creatures. They were witches, they deserved to die.'

A coach crashes on the M40. All the passengers are killed. The bodies carry no identification; they are wearing similar new clothes. And each has a suitcase full of banknotes.

A country vet delivers a foal. The mare has a deep wound in her forehead. In the straw, the vet finds a tapered horn.

In the darkening and doomed world known to its inhabitants as Tír na n-Óg, the besieged humans defend the walls of their citadel Dinorben against mythical beasts and demons.

The TARDIS's link with the Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.

[edit] Characters

• The Doctor
  • Is still afraid of fire.
• Ace
  • Isn't very religious.
• Lynx
  • The silver cat which has been popping up, which is generated by the TARDIS.
• Herne
• Goibhnie

[edit] References

• A speck of demonic protoplasm infects the TARDIS.
• New Scotland Yard has a one-man Paranormal Investigations Team.
• The Book of Rassilon starts with "In the beginning...".
• Earth is widely recognised as one of the causal nexus points of the galaxy.

[edit] Food and Beverages

• The Doctor and Ace eat potato and leek soup.
• The Doctor fries up bacon for everyone.

[edit] Notes

• This is the final novel in the Cat's Cradle Trilogy.

[edit] Continuity

• Clones of the Doctor and Ace appear in NA: Return of the Living Dad.
• In NA: Deceit it's revealed the effects of the protoplasm on the Doctor.

[edit] External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
• Bewildering Reference Guide entry to Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark, with notes by the author.

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