Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Doctor Who 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 the Doctor, 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 second Doctor 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 Telos Publishing. 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 companion 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.