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Classic Doctors, New Monsters #2.03
Doctor Who: The Carrionite Curse
Katy Bell returns to her Midlands home to find strange goings-on at the buskers fair. A witch trial in the 1980s. A bonfire ready to be lit...
Luckily, a colourful visitor is already investigating, and the local vicar, Katy's dad, is versed in tales of the macabre. Terrifying forces are on the loose, and the town hall holds a secret. There is black magic in the Black Country, and the Doctor has the name of his enemy on the tip of his tongue...
Something wicked this way comes.
Luckily, a colourful visitor is already investigating, and the local vicar, Katy's dad, is versed in tales of the macabre. Terrifying forces are on the loose, and the town hall holds a secret. There is black magic in the Black Country, and the Doctor has the name of his enemy on the tip of his tongue...
Something wicked this way comes.
- GenresDoctor Who
Audio CD
First published July 27, 2017
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About the author
Simon Guerrier
168 books61 followersSimon Guerrier is a British science fiction author and dramatist, closely associated with the fictional universe of Doctor Who and its spinoffs. Although he has written three Doctor Who novels, for the BBC Books range, his work has mostly been for Big Finish Productions' audio drama and book ranges.
Guerrier's earliest published fiction appeared in Zodiac, the first of Big Finish's Short Trips range of Doctor Who short story anthologies. To date, his work has appeared in the majority of the Short Trips collections. He has also edited three volumes in the series, The History of Christmas, Time Signature and How The Doctor Changed My Life. The second of these takes as its starting-point Guerrier's short story An Overture Too Early in The Muses. The third anthology featured stories entirely by previously unpublished writers.
After contributing two stories to the anthology Life During Wartime in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of books and audio dramas, Guerrier was invited to edit the subsequent year's short story collection, A Life Worth Living, and the novella collection Parallel Lives. After contributing two audio dramas to the series, Guerrier became the producer of the Bernice Summerfield range of plays and books, a post he held between January 2006 and June 2007.
His other Doctor Who work includes the audio dramas, The Settling and The Judgement of Isskar, in Big Finish's Doctor Who audio range, three Companion Chronicles and a contribution to the UNIT spinoff series. He has also written a play in Big Finish's Sapphire and Steel range.
Guerrier's work is characterised by character-driven humour and by an interest in unifying the continuity of the various Big Finish ranges through multiple references and reappearances of characters. As editor he has been a strong promoter of the work of various script writers from the Seventh Doctor era of the Doctor Who television series
Guerrier's earliest published fiction appeared in Zodiac, the first of Big Finish's Short Trips range of Doctor Who short story anthologies. To date, his work has appeared in the majority of the Short Trips collections. He has also edited three volumes in the series, The History of Christmas, Time Signature and How The Doctor Changed My Life. The second of these takes as its starting-point Guerrier's short story An Overture Too Early in The Muses. The third anthology featured stories entirely by previously unpublished writers.
After contributing two stories to the anthology Life During Wartime in Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield range of books and audio dramas, Guerrier was invited to edit the subsequent year's short story collection, A Life Worth Living, and the novella collection Parallel Lives. After contributing two audio dramas to the series, Guerrier became the producer of the Bernice Summerfield range of plays and books, a post he held between January 2006 and June 2007.
His other Doctor Who work includes the audio dramas, The Settling and The Judgement of Isskar, in Big Finish's Doctor Who audio range, three Companion Chronicles and a contribution to the UNIT spinoff series. He has also written a play in Big Finish's Sapphire and Steel range.
Guerrier's work is characterised by character-driven humour and by an interest in unifying the continuity of the various Big Finish ranges through multiple references and reappearances of characters. As editor he has been a strong promoter of the work of various script writers from the Seventh Doctor era of the Doctor Who television series
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November 5, 2025
The sixth Doctor lands in the 1980's and enjoys the villages' fair where hé is taken for a clown to add to the entertainment. When the main events comes to pass namely the burning of witches he is flabbergasted and stops the nights entertainment. However these creatures of fairytales do not take no for an answer.
What is even more worrying is that these witches know of him and draw power from the paradox.
These lasses did meet the tenth Doctor and doctor Martha Jones when they met earths' most famous worthsmith Shakespeare.
The 6th Doctor being a great pompous character might be somewhat younger but hé is up for a fight with the Carrionites.
Another grand adventure of the Doctor which is linked to tv series starring the 10th Doctor. An excellent audio adventure which does not fail to deliver.
What is even more worrying is that these witches know of him and draw power from the paradox.
These lasses did meet the tenth Doctor and doctor Martha Jones when they met earths' most famous worthsmith Shakespeare.
The 6th Doctor being a great pompous character might be somewhat younger but hé is up for a fight with the Carrionites.
Another grand adventure of the Doctor which is linked to tv series starring the 10th Doctor. An excellent audio adventure which does not fail to deliver.
July 6, 2024
Enemies and monsters from the new series with Doctors from the classic series? Sounds like a perfect combination.
And yet another (Sixth) Doctor adventure that deals with some aspect of trials and legality. Is it just The Trial of a Time Lord that makes everyone think Colin Baker has to be depicted as a lawyer, or is there something else I’m missing? At what point does this become a cliché? Nothing really wrong with this one, and I liked how the writers tied it back to The Shakespeare Code, but some of it just left me flat.
And yet another (Sixth) Doctor adventure that deals with some aspect of trials and legality. Is it just The Trial of a Time Lord that makes everyone think Colin Baker has to be depicted as a lawyer, or is there something else I’m missing? At what point does this become a cliché? Nothing really wrong with this one, and I liked how the writers tied it back to The Shakespeare Code, but some of it just left me flat.
January 1, 2025
Colin Baker 👍
October 12, 2025
Enjoyed this installment of Classic Doctors, New Monsters, but then, I have enjoyed all of Simon Guerrier's other Big Finish work so far, so I suppose this is not a surprise!
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