The Dead Travel Fast (short story)

The Dead Travel Fast was the second short story published in I Am The Master: Legends of the Renegade Time Lord. It was written by Mark Wright and featured the Decayed Master as played on TV by Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers.

Summary
Holidaying in Whitby, Bram Stoker is plunged into a world of horror when a grandfather clock washes to shore together with the hideous remains of the dying Master – who will do anything to survive.

Plot
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Characters

 * Bram Stoker
 * Decayed Master
 * Emma Veazey
 * Isabel Smith
 * Marjorie Smith
 * Miss Stokes

Worldbuilding

 * Stoker compares the control room of the Master's TARDIS to the burial markers of Highgate Cemetery, and the control console to the works of Mr. Verne.

Continuity

 * The Master is rendered into a decaying state after undergoing a failed regeneration. (PROSE: Meet Missy!, The Doctor vs the Master; COMIC: Doorway to Hell)
 * Low artron energy prevents normal regeneration. (PROSE: The Banquo Legacy)
 * Stoker is shown a glimpse of his own future death. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati)
 * The Master says he is "desperate for revenge" on the person who caused his failed regeneration. (COMIC: Doorway to Hell)