The City of the Dead (novel)

The City of the Dead was the forty-ninth novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Lloyd Rose. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher’s summary
“Nothing can get into the TARDIS,” the Doctor whispered.

Then he realised that Nothing had.

New Orleans, the early 21st century. A dealer in morbid artefacts has been murdered. A charm carved from human bone is missing. An old plantation, miles from any water, has been destroyed by a tidal wave.

Anji goes dancing. Fitz goes grave-robbing. The Doctor attracts the interest of a homicide detective and the enmity of a would-be magician. He wants to find out the secret of the redneck thief and his blind wife. He’d like to help the crippled curator of a museum of magic. He’s trying to refuse politely the request of a crazy young artist that he pose naked with the man’s wife.

Most of all, he needs to figure out what all of them have to do with the Void that is hunting him down.

Before it catches him.

Chapter Titles
Part One: Dream Place Part Two: Memory Lane Part Three: Dead End
 * Prologue
 * 1: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
 * 2: Whited Sepulchres
 * 3: The City of the Dead
 * 4: The Magical Mystery Tour
 * 5: Seeing Flood Plain
 * 6: Gods and Monsters
 * 7: This Party's Dead
 * 8: The Starling's Lament
 * 9: Who's Who
 * 10: The Fall of the House of Delesormes
 * 11: Flood Tide
 * 12: Dork Ride
 * 13: Graveyard Dust
 * 14: Rough Magic
 * 15: Sin and Sensibility
 * 16: Rust Never Sleeps
 * 17: The Men Behind the Curtain
 * 18: In Search of Lost Time
 * 19: The Magician's House
 * 20: It Has Light When I Come to Journey's End
 * 21: Well Met By Moonlight
 * 22: Only a Motion Onion
 * Epilogue

Characters

 * The Eighth Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Anji Kapoor
 * Jonas Rust
 * Vernon Flood
 * Teddy Acree
 * Jack Dupre
 * Alan August
 * Flood
 * Laura Redpath
 * Maurice Chickley
 * Pierre Bal
 * Swan Acree
 * Thales

Continuity

 * There are a variety of images and half remembered dreams that the amnesiac Doctor experiences, which are references to previous novels / adventures:
 * PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation
 * PROSE: All-Consuming Fire
 * PROSE: Set Piece
 * PROSE: Sky Pirates!
 * PROSE: The Also People
 * PROSE: Lungbarrow


 * Anji sees the Doctor's model train set in the TARDIS. (PROSE: Model Train Set)
 * When he sees the Seventh Doctor in his nightmares, the Doctor vaguely recalls having seen him at a funfair. (PROSE: Endgame)
 * The Doctor mentions Graham Greene. (PROSE: The Turing Test)