The Ultimate Monster Guide (reference book)

The Ultimate Monster Guide was a release from BBC Books that collected Doctor Who: Monsters and Villains, Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies and Doctor Who: Creatures and Demons together along with additional material.

Subject matter
The Ultimate Guide takes Doctor Who: Monsters and Villains, Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies and Doctor Who: Creatures and Demons, as well as new articles and updated information of various monsters from An Unearthly Child to Planet of the Dead.

Publisher's summary
With THE ULTIMATE MONSTER GUIDE, DOCTOR WHO historian Justin Richards has created the most comprehensive guide to the Doctor’s enemies ever published. With fully illustrated entries that cover everything from Adipose to Zarbi and Zygons, this guide tells you everything you need to know about the many dastardly creatures the Doctor has fought since he first appeared on television.

Featuring a wealth of material from the current and classic series, the Guide also includes behind-the-scenes secrets of how the monsters were created, as well as design drawings and images. Find out how the Cybermen were redesigned over the years, and how Davros was resurrected to lead his Daleks once again. Discover the computer magic that made the Beast possible, and the make-up wizardry that created the Weeping Angels. Learn how many incarnations of the Master the Doctor has encountered, and which other misguided Time Lords he has defeated …

Lavishly designed with photos and artwork throughout, THE ULTIMATE MONSTER GUIDE is essential reading for all travellers in time and space!

Contents
Though there is no contents page, the following are the designated articles:
 * All the Strange, Strange Creatures
 * The Abzorbaloff
 * The Adipose
 * The Alien Ambassadors
 * The Autons
 * The Axons
 * The Beast
 * The Carrionites
 * Cassandra
 * The Celestial Toymaker
 * The Clockwork Robots
 * The Cybermen
 * The Dæmons
 * The Daleks
 * The Destroyer
 * The Empty Child
 * The Face of Boe
 * The Family of Blood
 * The Gelth
 * Giant Maggots
 * The Giant Robot
 * Giant Spiders
 * Magnus Greel
 * The Haemovores
 * The Hath
 * The Heavenly Host
 * The Ice Warriors
 * The Isolus
 * The Jagrafess
 * The Judoon
 * The Krillitanes
 * The Krynoid
 * The Land of Fiction
 * The Lazarus Creature
 * The Macra
 * The Master
 * Midnight Entity
 * Morbius
 * New Earth
 * Ogri
 * The Ogrons and Draconians
 * Omega
 * The Ood
 * Platform One: The Visitors
 * The Pyroviles
 * Quarks
 * The Racnoss
 * The Rani
 * The Sandminer Robots
 * Santa Robots
 * Scaroth
 * Sharaz Jek
 * Sil and The Mentors
 * Silurians and Sea Devils
 * The Slitheen
 * The Sontarans
 * Stingrays and Tritivores
 * Sutekh and The Mummies
 * The Sycorax
 * The Terileptils
 * The Trickster's Brigade
 * The Vashta Nerada
 * The Vervoids
 * The Vespiform
 * The War Machines
 * The Weed Creature
 * The Weeping Angels
 * The Werewolf
 * The Wire
 * The Wirrn
 * The Yeti
 * The Zarbi
 * The Zygons

Notable features

 * Additional references include the Quarks in the 1960s comic strip adventures and the Family of Blood from Virgins New Adventures novels.
 * A number of colour photographs from black and white stories is a bonus attraction in this comprehensive guide.

Additional notes

 * Curiously, it is missing an entry for the Reapers which was in Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies. This is the only entry not carried over from the three books it collects.

Publication history

 * This hardback only title with a printed cover (designed by Lee Binding @ tea-lady.co.uk) and no dust jacket was priced £15.99 (UK).