Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Foreign Devils by Andrew Cartmel Doctor Who: Foreign Devils by Andrew Cartmel. RECOMMENDED. TELOS DELUXE HARDBACK (ISBN 1- 903889-11-1 ) RELEASED IN NOVEMBER 2002. China, 1800, and , Jamie and ZoE arrive at the English Trade Concession in Canton, WHERE a young man BY THE NAME OF Carnacki, an expert in all things mystical, HELPS THEM TO investigate a series of bizarre murders. I really don�t see what made Foreign Devils such a popular release back in 2002. A paranormal mystery cut from the same cloth as his Big Finish audio drama, Winter for the Adept , the only thing extraordinary about Andrew Cartmel�s contribution to the Telos range is that it features William Hope Hodgson�s supernatural detective, Carnacki - a gimmick that I�d have been blissfully ignorant of, were it not for Mike Ashley�s introduction. Usually a great admirer of Cartmel�s work, I found this little novelette doubly disappointing. Cartmel�s scheming reads like the seventh in a mop wig; a facet of this story that, particularly when fused with some incongruous sexual allusions and the absence of the stalwart Jamie, really knocks Foreign Devils considerably off beam. Which is most probably the point, I suppose. �Her nipples were revealed as perfect pink rose buds sprouting from the inhumanly smooth domes of her milky breasts.� Of course, Cartmel�s story does have its moments � Celandine�s stunning transformation into a plant is a notable highlight, though even this feels a little unbefitting thanks to the number of times her nudity is highlighted. I�m all for a bit of oomph in the New Adventures and the like, but in what purports to be monochrome Who ? It just feels wrong somehow. Brave, and I dare say commendable, but wrong nevertheless. Overall then, I found Foreign Devils to be an extremely unsatisfactory read; so much so, in fact, that I didn�t even bother with Hodgson�s �Whistling Room� that rounds out the book�s page count. Copyright � E.G. Wolverson 2009. E.G. Wolverson has asserted his right under the Copyright, Design. and Patents Act 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Neither this novella�s blurb nor its text offer any firm clues as to its placement. Given the companions used and how they are portrayed, we suspect that this story is set somewhere between the television serials The Invasion and The Krotons. Within this gap, we have placed it between the novels The Indestructible Man, which appears to follow The Invasion quite closely, and The Colony of Lies, which was released later. Unless otherwise stated, all images on this site are copyrighted to the BBC and are used solely for promotional purposes. Doctor Who: Foreign Devils by Andrew Cartmel. A supposedly harmless relic known as the Spirit Gate becomes active and whisks Jamie and Zo� into the future. The Doctor follows in the TARDIS and arrives in England, 1900, where the descendents of an English merchant from 1800 are gathering. Among their number is a young man called Carnacki, an expert in all things mystical, and before long he is helping the Doctor investigate a series of bizarre murders in the house. This is the fifth in the series of hardback novellas by . This adventure features the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zo�. Released: November 2002 ISBN: 1 903 88910 3 (Standard Edition), 1 903 88911 1 (Deluxe Edition), Paperback Edition (1 903 88933 2) The year is 1800, and the Emperor of China has ordered his Chief Astrologer to use all means necessary to put a stop to the opium trade. A British smuggler, Roderick Upcott, is thus in for a nasty shock when he visits a merchant who had promised to purchase Upcott�s supplies of Indian opium; the Astrologer is waiting for him, having roasted the merchant alive for his crimes. On the wall, Upcott sees a tapestry bearing a dragon identical to Upcott�s own tattoo -- but the image changes colour from green to red, becoming the tattoo�s spectral opposite. The Astrologer allows Upcott to flee; his punishment will be longer-lasting. The TARDIS materialises in the British Trade Commission, and the Doctor, Jamie and Zo� emerge to find the courtyard filled with smoke that smells of incense and gunpowder. The Doctor meets Upcott and discusses local politics with him, while Jamie and Zo� investigate a strange stone structure called a �spirit gate� which prevents demons from passing through. Jamie vanishes when he steps through the gate, as does Zo� when she demonstrates what happened for the Doctor. Roderick retreats into an opium daze, unable to deal with what he�s seen. The Doctor, however, concludes that the spirit gate is an alien teleportation unit, and he returns to the TARDIS, analyses the energy fluctuations around the spirit gate, and links the sensors to the TARDIS navigational system, allowing the gate to send him after Jamie and Zo�. The TARDIS thus materialises exactly 100 years later in the grounds of Fair Destine, the Upcott family estate -- near the very same spirit gate, which Roderick had shipped home from China as a souvenir. His great-grandson, the surgeon Pemberton Upcott, is hosting a party for his close relatives and other guests; amongst the guests are the celebrated medium Celandine Gilbert and her Thomas Carnacki, a young student of supernatural phenomena. The Doctor passes himself off as a guest and manages to speak with Zo�, who has avoided questions by disguising herself as a temporary maidservant. She has been unable to locate Jamie, and is disgusted when the head butler, Elder-Main, misinterprets the Doctor�s �interest� in her and offers to arrange for them to slip away together for a fee. After dinner, Carnacki delivers an illustrated talk on the affair of the haunted Cornish spirit lance, and Celandine prepares to channel the spirits for the amusement of the guests. Zo� is sceptical of Carnacki�s story, but it soon becomes clear that Celandine does possess psychic abilities; soon after she enters a trance, the piano begins playing a tune which hasn�t been written yet. The ruddy-faced Colonel Marlowe heckles her demonstration, but falls silent when a heavy cabinet rises on its own and tilts onto its side without a single crystal falling from its shelves. The Colonel goes pale and flees, and moments later, the manor�s arboretum -- where Roderick Upcott and his pet Capuchin monkey are buried -- is struck by lightning. Celandine falls into a trance from which Carnacki is unable to awaken her. The Doctor and Zo� visit the arboretum to investigate, and find that Roderick�s grave has been blasted open and his body has gone, apparently vaporised. The Doctor deduces that Celandine�s performance has set a sequence of events in motion, but before he can theorise further, Carnacki arrives and asks them for help; the Colonel has been found dead in the billiard room, a locked room to which he had the only key. Pemberton�s shrewish wife Millicent takes charge of the situation, much to Pemberton�s quiet rage, and asks Carnacki to investigate; impressed by the Doctor�s intelligence, Carnacki requests his assistance. The Doctor questions Pemberton and learns that the late Colonel had a terrible fear of the supernatural, explaining his rude behaviour during Celandine�s demonstration. The Doctor and Carnacki examine the Colonel�s body and find a red dragon tattoo emblazoned on his forehead; however, it is no ordinary tattoo, as there does not appear to be any ink embedded in the skin. The phone lines are dead, a blizzard is moving in -- and as dawn breaks, Pemberton�s elderly aunt Arabelle is found dead. Carnacki concludes that the late Roderick has been resurrected and is stalking his descendents, which Zo� finds difficult to credit. The Doctor advises her to keep playing the role of the maid in order to learn more, and she thus delivers breakfast to Pemberton�s younger brother Thor, an unrepentant lech who summons her from the billiard room but insists that she serve him breakfast in his bedroom. He also insists that she remain in the room while he eats, and tries to show her a book with some terribly interesting pictures in it. The Doctor shows up before things can go too far, and asks how Thor managed to get into the supposedly locked billiard room. Thor admits that he has a copy of the key, but insists that he is not responsible for the Colonel�s death. He also confirms the Doctor�s suspicions that the Colonel and Arabelle were relatives by blood, not marriage. The Doctor thus advises Thor to be wary; it seems that the killer is targeting the Upcott family line. However, his theory seems disproven when Millicent Upcott is found dead in her bath. As night falls, Pemberton�s house guests panic and try to flee, only to find that the entire estate has been removed from the Earth itself and is floating in the depths of space. As the guests retreat to the house�s great hall in shock, the Doctor and Carnacki examine Millicent�s body and find certain significant discrepancies. Unlike the other two victims, her tattoo was indeed inked in, and a closer examination of the body reveals a tiny bruise and pinprick on the inside of her elbow, indicating that somebody administered an opium overdose to her. Carnacki and the Doctor thus have the furious Pemberton locked up in the wine cellar, near the family�s fireworks store, until the police can be summoned; later, Carnacki searches Pemberton�s study and finds the murder weapon. But while this one murder was entirely natural, other forces are still at work on the estate. In exchange for his temporary freedom, Pemberton confesses to the murder of his wife; he had also realised that the curse was striking down his blood relatives, and couldn�t bear the thought of his shrewish wife surviving him. Thor sends Zo� a five-pound note and an �invitation� to join him in his bedroom. She burns both and sleeps soundly in the servants� quarters, and during the night, Thor is killed like the others. The Doctor studies the scene and determines that the mirror in Thor�s bedroom is a one-way glass. Elder-Main reluctantly admits that Thor sometimes invited him to sit in the alcove behind the mirror and watch as Thor entertained himself with the servants. Elder-Main was there last night, waiting for Zo� to arrive, but instead he saw Thor being killed -- by Celandine Gilbert. Carnacki refuses to believe Elder-Main�s story, and insists that he was drunk, lying, or both. The Doctor suggests that Celandine may not be responsible for her actions if she was possessed by a supernatural force, but Carnacki will hear none of it. With the Doctor�s help, Carnacki constructs a device capable of locating any nearby sources of spiritual energy, and after some fine-tuning by the Doctor, it pinpoints the spirit gate as the source of the disturbances. The Doctor orders Elder-Main to fetch fireworks from the cellars and pile them around the spirit gate; it has already proven to be a matter transporter, and perhaps it is also acting as a conduit for the energies powering the strange events they have witnessed. Elder-Main reports seeing Celandine sleepwalking towards the arboretum, and the Doctor, Zo� and Carnacki investigate -- and find Jamie lying in the arboretum, deep in a laudanum-induced trance and surrounded by poppies growing more quickly than is natural. Celandine enters the arboretum and kisses Jamie on the forehead, but unlike her other kisses, this one brings life, reviving Jamie from his trance. Celandine has been possessed by the spirit of the poppy, an impersonal natural force which can be turned to either good or evil; the Chief Astrologer�s curse is being enacted throughout the plant with which Roderick Upcott caused such suffering in China. Having allowed the Upcotts to profit from their evil, the curse will now strike and take it all away, thus increasing their suffering. The spirit releases Celandine, its work done -- but Pemberton Upcott arrives, still alive, and holds them at gunpoint. He confesses that he drugged Jamie when the young man first arrived, realising that the arrival of a young man from another century meant that the curse Roderick had written about was about to be fulfilled, but unsure whether it would be safer to kill Jamie or let him live. He now forces the others to the edge of the estate, intending to force them into the void so none will know of his own crime. However, the final stage of the curse then manifests itself; as Carnacki had assumed from the start, Roderick Upcott�s cadaver has indeed been animated, and it is he who will kill his own descendent. Foreign Devils. A supposedly harmless relic known as the Spirit Gate becomes active and whisks Jamie and Zoe into the future. The Doctor follows in the TARDIS and arrives in England, 1900, where the descendents of an English merchant from 1800 are gathering. Among their number is a young man called Carnacki, an expert in all things mystical, and before long he is helping the Doctor investigate a series of bizarre murders in the house. The spirits of the past have returned, and when the Doctor discovers that the house and surrounds have literally been taken out of space and time, he realises that their attacker may not be all they seem. Foreign Devils (Doctor Who Novellas) Foreign Devils is another in the series of Doctor Who novellas from Telos. This one focuses on the Second Doctor, as portrayed on television by Patrick Troughton, and his two companions Jamie and Zoe. While at the British Trading Consortium in China in 1800, Jamie and Zoe disappear through a spirit gate. Following them in the TARDIS, the Doctor arrives in the grounds of an English mansion in 1900, where the descendants of the English merchant the TARDIS crew met in 1800 are assembling. But, when a murder occurs, the Doctor teams up with Carnacki, a paranormal investigator, to solve the crime. But is their foe too powerful for the pair of them to defeat? And where is the missing Jamie? Andrew Cartmel is best known for his associations with the and his numerous 'New Adventures' for that range of books. Here, he puts his own handle on the Second Doctor. I think that in terms of the characterisation of the Doctor, Cartmel is hit and miss. Personally, I can imagine the dialogue in this story spoken by Patrick Troughton. When the Doctor teams up with Carnacki, there are clear shades of other partnerships during Troughton's tenure, although this time the Doctor and Carnacki hit off from the start. Cartmel creates a convincing atmosphere, with situations not too dissimilar from those found in Sherlock Holmes and the hit Doctor Who story, "The Talons of Weng-Chiang". His prose is easy to read and not too heavy, unlike some of his other Doctor Who work. However, there are elements to the characterisation of the Doctor I didn't think was in keeping with the tone of both his era and the show. The Doctor's attitude to Zoe becoming a maid and the reaction of the other characters to his frequent and prolonged meetings with her -- or at least the way I read it -- almost made the Doctor look like a dirty old man. The implication is that the Doctor is seeing Zoe for sexual relations, and the problem I have with this is that barely nothing seems to be done about it, in the context of the plot. But it just seems to me that Zoe is a pawn in sex games during this novella, both in her position with the Doctor and in her scenes with Thor Upcott. Perhaps the ethos of Telos is being upheld here, to create something that is Doctor Who, but yet not Doctor Who, but it still feels wrong. Plotwise, without giving too much away, the prologue initially appears to have little to do with the unfolding murder mystery plot. With no obvious discernible plot holes, this is an enjoyable romp, which you should allow yourself to be swept up into and enjoy the ride presented. The pairing up of the Doctor and Carnacki makes the story enjoyable. However, the plotline seems to lose its way at times, and the ending is somewhat rushed and unsatisfactory, though seemingly like so many of Patrick Troughton's stories where the Doctor and his companions disappear without a proper ending. Overall, Foreign Devils is another decent read from Telos, and will be enjoyed by supernatural, Carnacki and Doctor Who fans alike. This story feels in keeping with the feel of the Troughton era, while keeping to the ethos of the Telos novellas by advancing Doctor Who and tackling different views of the series through these new stories. Bonus marks must goto Telos for the inclusion of an added short story by William Hope Hodgson, "The Whistling Room", which is one of the original Carnacki stories. Foreign Devils by Andrew Cartmel. Doctor Who Novellas: Foreign Devils (Doctor Who Series) Andrew Cartmel. Published by Telos Publishing Ltd, 2003. Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good-Near Fine. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good-Near Fine. 1st Edition. A clean unmarked copy that presents as unread. Bump to top outside corner. Doctor Who: Foreign Devils. Cartmel, Andrew. Published by Telos Pub Ltd, United Kingdom, 2002. Used - Hardcover Condition: As New. Hard Cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Mike Collins (illustrator). Limited/Numbered. Doctor Who Novellas 5: featuring The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe in 1800 China, with an appearance by William Hope Hodgson's ghost finder Carnacki. Foreword by Mike Ashley. Color plate of dragon by Mike Collins. Ribbon bookmark. Copy 798 of 800, signed by Cartmel, Collins, and Ashley. New copy drawn from store stock. Signed By Authors and Illustrator. DOCTOR WHO: FOREIGN DEVILS. Cartmel, Andrew. Published by Telos, Surrey, 2002. First Edition Signed. 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