Goth Opera

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Goth Opera
Doctor Who book

Series	Virgin Missing Adventures
Release number	1
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Tegan, Nyssa, Romana II
Writer	Paul Cornell
Publisher	Virgin Books
ISBN	ISBN 0-426-20418-2
Set between	Snakedance and Mawdryn Undead
No. of pages	238
Release date	July 1994
Followed by	Evolution

Goth Opera is an original Doctor Who novel, published by Virgin Publishing in their Missing Adventures range of Doctor Who novels. It was the first book in that series and a sequel to the New Adventure book Blood Harvest, but it can be read separately. Like all spin-off media, its canonicity in relation to the television series is unclear.

1 Plot
2 Notes
3 External links
- 3.1 Reviews

[edit] Plot

As the Fifth Doctor and his companions rest and recuperate from their last adventure in Tasmania they get caught up in a scheme by the Time Lord Ruath to resurrect the vampire Yarven (from Blood Harvest). Nyssa is attacked by vampiric infant and survives, but is left two small holes in her neck.

[edit] Notes

The novel's cover was originally to feature a far more graphic image of Nyssa's shirt covered in blood. The artwork had to be adjusted and the blood airbrushed out when retailers insisted that they would not stock the book in that form.
Like Blood Harvest, the novel is both a sequel to and directly inspired by the 1980 television story State of Decay which first mentioned the war between the Time Lords and the Vampires.
The novel makes continuity references to the events of various stories in the classic series including The Five Doctors, Arc of Infinity, The Trial of a Time Lord, The Invasion of Time, The Two Doctors, Dragonfire, Warriors' Gate and The Curse of Fenric.