The Burning
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Main enemy:	The Fire Elemental
Main setting:	Middletown, England, 1890
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Justin Richards
Release details
Release number:	37
Release date:	August 2000
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN 0-563-53812-0
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The Burning was the thirty-seventh novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Justin Richards.

Publisher’s Summary Edit

The late nineteenth century -- the age of reason, of enlightenment, of industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the world, the centre of the Empire.

Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches into the depths of Hell itself.

But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the Society for Psychical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artefacts. People are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: a man with no name, no history.

Only one man can unravel the mysteries; only one man can begin to understand the forces that are gathering; only one man can hope to fight against them. And only one man knows that this is just the beginning of the end of the world.

Only one man can stop The Burning.

Characters Edit

• The Eighth Doctor
• Roger Nepath
• Colonel Wilson
• Reverend Stobbold
• Profesor Dobbs
• Lady Urton
• Lord Urton
• Alistair Gaddis
• Betty Stobbold
• Brookes
• Devlin
• Griffiths
• Isaac Dobbs
• Matthew Stobbold
• Patience
• William Grant

References Edit

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Notes Edit

• This is the first story in the "Earth Arc".
• The Doctor has a note left in his pocket by Compassion which reads, "Meet me in St. Louis, February 8, 2001. Fitz."
• The novel plays with the imagery that usually surrounds the Doctor's arrival and description (ie someone looking mournfully at a body, or a wild haired gentleman making unusual conversations at dinner). The Doctor actually arrives paragraphs before the reader realises he's there at dinner.

Continuity Edit

• The Doctor revisits Reverend Stobbold’s daughter Betty in PROSE: Father Time.

External links Edit

• Detailed synopsis of The Burning at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Burning at The Whoniverse