The Scent of Blood (audio story)

 was an exclusive-to-audio story from BBC Audio featuring the Eighth Doctor. It was read by Dan Starkey.

Publisher's summary
It's the late 1890s, and newspaper journalist James MacFarlane is on the trail of a supernatural entity. He's joined in his investigations by a mysterious stranger, who calls himself the Doctor and professes to know a lot about vampires.

As gangs of locals gather zombie-like on the city's streets, James and the Doctor find themselves on a dangerous trail to find the truth. What links the secretive Lord and Lady Elmhurst to local events? What strange force is luring ordinary men and women to a local quarry? The Doctor soon realises that the answers lie in his own past...

Plot
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Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * James MacFarlane
 * Muirhead
 * Lord Elmhurst
 * Lady Elmhurst

Worldbuilding

 * Bowships were designed to fire huge lumps of metal through the heart of a Great Vampire.

Continuity

 * Agnes Mclare was found dead in Stockbridge. (COMIC: Stars Fell on Stockbridge, AUDIO: Castle of Fear, et al.)
 * James MacFarlane guesses that Gallifrey is in Ireland. (TV: The Hand of Fear, et al.)
 * The Doctor says he became a qualified doctor in Edinburgh around this time. (TV: The Moonbase, Tooth and Claw)
 * The Doctor notes that lifeforms were larger during the Dark Times, (PROSE: River of Time) and that during this time his people had not just one war (TV: State of Decay, PROSE: The Pit) but several. (PROSE: Sky Pirates!, et al.)
 * The Doctors says that surviving Great Vampires hid beneath planetary surfaces (PROSE: Interference, TV: Inferno) or in "strange little pockets of space". (PROSE: The Pit, The Book of the War)
 * The Doctor finds cryptic references to Torchwood in the files at the Edinburgh Herald, intending to look into them in the future. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, Tooth and Claw, et al.)
 * The Doctor explains to James the history of Bowships. (TV: State of Decay, et al.)