The Web of Fear

[purplecat]

This was one of the first novelisations I ever bought (though I already had The Abominable Snowman - IIRC I bought this one because I recognised the yeti on the cover) and it completely terrified me. I seem to recall setting it aside because I couldn't continue it, and eventually got through it by reading backwards from the end in chunks.

It doesn't seem that scary these days.

Comments

[sir_guinglain]

It's a powerful Achilleos cover, and I'm glad to see it in use again on the present edition. The book has one of Terrance Dicks's more obvious and memorable rewrites, where Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart and the Doctor's meeting occurs as an incident in the book when it wasn't seen on screen. The Yeti and the Intelligence are far more crushing in this book than in Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen, I found.

[liadt]

I used to have this one as it was the only way of finding out what happened in the serial, courtesy of Oxfam where second hand Targets live.

[daniel-saunders.livejournal.com]

How old were you when you read it? I don't think I was ever scared by a Target novel (maybe a little by Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons) but I was scared by some TV episodes.