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SYNOPSIS

1977 Target Books edition

Stepping out of the TARDIS into Victorian London, Leela and the Doctor are confronted by menacing, diabolical horrors shrouded within the swirling London fog – a man’s death cry, an attack by Chinese Tong hatchet men, giant rats roaming the sewers, young women mysteriously disappearing…

The hideously deformed Magnus Greel, conducting a desperate search for the lost Time Cabinet, is the instigator of all this evil. Posing as the Chinese god, Weng-Chiang, Greel uses the crafty Li H’sen Chang, and the midget Manikin, Mr Sin, to achieve his terrifying objectives.

The Doctor must use all his skill, energy and intelligence to escape the talons of Weng-Chiang

1994 Target Books edition

‘A CHINESE SECRET SOCIETY, FANATICAL FOLLOWERS OF AN ANCIENT CHINESE GOD CALLED WENG-CHIANG. THEY BELIEVE THAT ONE DAY HE WILL RETURN TO THE WORLD.’

Stepping out of the TARDIS into Victorian London, Leela and the Doctor find themselves fighting of the trained killers of the Tong of the Black Scorpion. Barely escaping alive, they soon discover that the swirling fog hides other, more sinister forces. Giant rats roam the sewers, young women mysteriously disappear, and a magician’s manikin is found, clutching a blood-stained knife. Has an ancient and mysterious Chinese god returned to haunt the streets of London?

This is an adaptation by Terrance Dicks of a screenplay by Robert Holmes, which featured Tom Baker in the role of the Doctor.

NOTES

CHAPTER TITLES

1. Terror in the Fog
   
2. The Horror in the River
   
3. Death of a Prisoner
   
4. The Monster in the Tunnel
   
5. The Quest of Greel
   
6. The Tong Attacks
   
7. The Lair of Weng-Chiang
   
8. The Sacrifice
   
9. In the Jaws of the Rat
   
10. A Plan to Kill The Doctor
    
11. Death on Stage
    
12. The Hunt for Greel
    
13. The House of the Dragon
    
14. The Prisoners of Greel
    
15. The Firebomb

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