Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42438 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-06
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Synopsis
It is almost Halloween in the sleepy New England town of Blackwood Falls. Autumn leaves litter lawns and sidewalks, paper skeletons hang in windows, and carved pumpkins leer from stoops and front porches. The Doctor and Martha soon discover that something long-dormant has awoken in the town, and this will be no ordinary Halloween. What is the secret of the ancient chestnut tree and the mysterious book discovered tangled in its roots? What rises from the local churchyard in the dead of night, sealing up the lips of the only witness? And why are the harmless trappings of Halloween suddenly taking on a creepy new life of their own? As nightmarish creatures prowl the streets, the Doctor and Martha must battle to prevent both the townspeople and themselves from suffering a grisly fate...Featuring the Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit series from BBC Television.

About the Author
Mark Morris is the author of fourteen novels, including two previous Doctor Who books, and numerous novellas, short stories, articles and reviews, which have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and magazines. He was born the year that Doctor Who began, but his earliest Who memory, from 1967, is of the Yeti ambling down the mountainside to attack the Det-Sen monastery in The Abominable Snowmen.

Customer Reviews

Doctor Who-Forever Autumn
Good plot, excellent prose, funny and scarey. I have read most of the Docter Who books and this is one of the best for portraying the Doctor an Martha as they are on TV. The Doctor is jokey & genuinely funny, at the same time thoughtful & eccentric as ever. Martha is nice & sincere. This book is definately One of our favourites.Mark Morris is one of the best Doctor Who writers to date.

Very Good Story to read
This is a Really good book to read. It one of them books you can not put down and you have to read the next chapter!

And it all starts from a book which they find under a tree whats happens you will have to get the book and read it!

Forever Autumn
In this 16th new series novel the 10th Doctor and Martha land in modern-day America, and find that the horrors of Halloween are being turned into reality by the uncovery of an alien book by three children.

Halloween is an appropriately spooky festival for Doctor Who to play with, and this novel features some pleasantly outlandish monsters, but at it's heart this is a rather generic storyline featuring another group of aliens and their crashed space-ship, and the denoument is similarly standard fare that long-term fans will recognise from numerous adventures in the past.

Younger readers (who, let's face it, are the novels target audience) will find this a pleasantly spooky read, but older readers may well find that beyond a few surface scares 'Forever Autumn' doesn't really have anything new to offer beyond being a variation on old ideas.

As a television episode this story would succeed or fail on the strength of the monster special effects, as a novel 'Forever Autumn' is professional but slightly bland fare.