The Sleep of Reason (novel)

The Sleep of Reason was the seventieth release in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Martin Day. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Trix MacMillan.

Publisher's summary
The near future: a man in a psychiatric hospital claims to be an alien time-traveller called "the Doctor". He once adventured across countless galaxies, fighting evil.

The past: an asylum struggles to change Victorian attitudes to the mentally ill. It catches fire in mysterious circumstances.

Now: a young woman takes an overdose and slips into a coma. She dreams of Death falling like a shroud over a benighted gothic building.

Caroline "Laska" Darnell is admitted to the Retreat after her latest suicide attempt. To her horror, she recognises the medical centre from recent nightmares of an old building haunted by a ghostly dog with glowing eyes. She knows that something is very wrong with the institute. Something, revelling in madness, is growing ever stronger. The mysterious Dr Smith is fascinated by Laska's waking dreams and prophetic nightmares. But if Laska is unable to trust her own perceptions, can she trust Dr Smith?

And, all the while, the long-dead hound draws near...

Chapter Titles

 * Prologue: Dreams Never End (The Secret of Patient No. 1759)
 * 1) Do You Remember the First Time? (A Brief History of Self-Harm)
 * 2) Suicide Isn't Painless (In Fact It Hurts Like Hell)
 * 3) Architecture and Morality (Angel of Death)
 * 4) There's a Ghost in My House (Frontier Psychiatrists)
 * 5) Caroline Says (I've Got My TV and My Pills)
 * 6) Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity (Communion)
 * 7) I’ll Be Your Mirror (Reflect What You Are)
 * 8) Cellar Door (The Place You Fear the Most)
 * 9) The Stolen Child (World Full of Weeping)
 * 10) Mad World (The Start of the Breakdown)
 * 11) Spy vs Spy (Life’s a Riot)
 * 12) A Million Manias (Torment)
 * 13) My Life in a Bell Jar (Where is My Mind?)
 * 14) Basket Case (Where’s Your Head At?)
 * 15) A Hideous Strength (Dominion)
 * 16) The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum (Kill Your Sons)
 * 17) Matters of Life and Death (Chiaroscuro)
 * 18) The World, the Flesh and the Devil (O King of Chaos)
 * 19) No Alarms (No Surprises)
 * 20) No One Here Gets Out Alive (A Person Isn’t Safe Anywhere These Days)
 * 21) The Sweet Unknown (Mausoleum)
 * 22) Time’s Tides (The Sleep of Reason)
 * 23) There by the Grace of God (The Dream of Reason)
 * 24) This is the Way the World Ends (The Tooth)
 * 25) Soldier Girl (She’s Leaving)
 * 26) Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
 * 27) Epilogue: P.S. Goodbye (Cuckoo’s Nest)

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Trix
 * Bernard Watson
 * Caroline Darnell
 * Also known as Laska.
 * Caroline Haward
 * Charles Torby
 * Craig
 * Elizabeth Bartholomew
 * Fern
 * James Abel
 * Joe Bartholomew
 * Joseph Sands
 * Mary Jones
 * Mike Farrell
 * Mike Thomson
 * Oldfield
 * Samuel Sands
 * Susannah Harvey
 * Thomas Christie
 * Thorne
 * Tracy Wade
 * William Butler
 * William Macksey

Continuity
to be added