Doctor Who - New Adventures - 08 - Nightshade by Mark Gatiss

Author:Mark Gatiss
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction, General, Doctor Who (Fictitious Character), Fiction
ISBN: 9780426203766
Publisher: Doctor Who Books
Published: 1992-10-14T07:00:00+00:00

‘Smile...’ finished Mrs Holland.

champing in agitation. Jill looked again. There was a man

‘While you’ve a lucifer to light your fag...’

standing in the shadows by the fireplace. Even in the poor

‘Smile boys, that’s the style,’ croaked Mr Bollard, grinning.

light, she could make out his khaki uniform and boots. He began to move swiftly across the room.

186

187

DOCTOR WHO: NIGHTSHADE

DOCTOR WHO: NIGHTSHADE

‘Wilfrid!’ Mrs Holland yelled, her voice trembling.

Then Mrs Holland cried out, her voice choking as A little girl ran across the room and sat on Mr Peel’s knee.

ectoplasmic fluid erupted from her throat. Before her, She was wearing a long, Edwardian dress and carried an Wilfrid’s face began to fall away, flesh dripping from the old spinning top.

awful darkness beneath. His bony arms seared into her

‘Come on, Reuben,’ she trilled. ‘Come and play!’

sides and she vanished into a ball of light.

Mr Peel gawped at her and thrust her from his knee, a The monks who had remained were running for the doors.

look of horrified revulsion on his face. ‘No! No, not you!’

Mr Peel’s sister was creeping remorselessly towards him, Jill looked about desperately. From every corner, dark smiling a chilling smile. The room began to blaze with white figures were emerging, like bas-reliefs coming to life. Light light.

trailed from their eyes and hands.

Jill panicked suddenly, her whole body trembling. She ran

‘Stella?’ said Mr Peel in a disbelieving whisper as the little to the door and threw herself out into the cloisters, girl looked into his eyes. Jill knew about Stella. A little girl slamming the door behind her.

of eight or nine. Mr Peel’s sister. She’d died after eating Ace, who was standing some way off, was by her side in a poisonous berries sometime during the First World War.

moment.

Died.

‘What is it?’

The uniformed man blazed through the room towards Jill gestured towards the door. Ace peered through the Mrs Holland. Someone started screaming hysterically.

dusty window and gasped. All she could see were people

‘Esmé,’ said Wilfrid, his voice rustling like tissue paper. ‘My bathed in light, roaring like columns of fire. She turned darling.’

around, brimming with questions. Jill was gone.

The old woman’s jaw fell open. The figure stopped by her Ace turned back to the window, her eyes widening in chair and opened its arms to embrace her.

shock. Then she saw something which froze her blood. The Jill looked crazily about her. The old people were main doors had opened and Robin had stepped into the stumbling about in blind panic as shapes split off from the room. He was knocked off his feet in an instant as a wave of shadows and moved towards them. There was a thin light tore through the place, crashing shut the doors, which woman in a black dress bearing down on Mr Messingham buckled and expanded. Ace ran inside.

and a tiny baby crawling towards Mr Bollard. The old man’s

‘Robin!’

hoarse scream filled the air. Mrs Holland rose from her chair, The boy was standing stock still, staring at the terrible her bent back straightening determinedly as she stepped beauty of the apparitions before him.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.