Fear of the Dark (Doctor Who)

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Doctor Who book

Fear of the Dark
Series	Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	58
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Tegan and Nyssa
Writer	Trevor Baxendale
Publisher	BBC Books
ISBN	ISBN 0563538651
Set between	After Arc of Infinity
Number of pages	288
Release date	March 2003
Preceded by	'Heritage'
Followed by	'Blue Box'

Fear of the Dark is a BBC Books original novel written by Trevor Baxendale and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa.

Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, the way the plot fits in to the ongoing story of television series is open to interpretation. See Whoniverse#Inclusion and canonicity

[edit] Triva

The Doctor describes the Dark as coming from "the universe before this one". In the Virgin New Adventures, a number of Doctor Who monsters were said to be Great Old Ones from the universe before this one.