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Forty years the Yeti had been quiet.

A collector’s item in a museum.

Then without warning it awoke – and savagely murdered.

At about the same time patches of mist began to appear in Central London.

People who lingered anytime in the mist were found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobweb seeped down,

penetrating the Underground System.

Slowly it spread . . .

Then the Yeti reappeared, roaming the misty streets and cobwebbed tunnels, killing everyone in their path. Central London was gripped tight in a Web of Fear . . .

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DOCTOR WHO

AND THE

WEB OF FEAR

Based on the BBC television serial Doctor Who and the Web of Fear by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln by arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corporation TERRANCE DICKS

published by

The Paperback Division of

W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd

A Target Book

Published in 1976

by the Paperback Division of W. H. Allen & Co. Ltd.

A Howard & Wyndham Company

44 Hill Street, London WIX 8LB

Text of book copyright © 1976 by Terrance Dicks, Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln

‘Doctor Who’ series copyright © 1976 by the British Broadcasting Corporation

Printed in Great Britain by

Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd, Aylesbury, Bucks.

ISBN 0 426 11084 6

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

CONTENTS

1 Return of Evil

2 The Web in Space

3 The Monster in the Tunnels

4 Danger for the Doctor

5 Battle with the Yeti

6 The Terror of the Web

7 Escape from the Web

8 Return of the Yeti

9 Kidnapped!

10 Danger Above Ground

11 ‘I want your mind’

12 The Fall of the Fortress

13 Captives of the Intelligence

14 The Final Duel

1

Return of Evil

The huge, furry monster reared up, as if to strike. Well over seven feet tall, its immensely broad body made it seem squat and lumpy. It had the huge hands of a gorilla, the savage yellow fangs and fierce red eyes of a grizzly bear.

There was no fear in the face of the white-bearded old man who stood looking up at it, just a yearning curiosity.

He knew the monster wouldn’t move. It had stood like this, in the private museum, for over forty years, ever since he had brought it back from Tibet. He reached up and opened a flap in the monster’s chest. Beneath was an empty space, just large enough to hold a small sphere.

The door opened and two people walked in. One was a tall, elegant white-haired old man, the other an attractive young girl. The man pointed to the brooding figure at the end of the hall. ‘There he is, Miss Travers. Now, please, you take him away!’ Although his voice was cultured, it held traces of a middle-European accent.

Anne Travers was used to apologising for the eccentricities of her father. ‘I’ll do my best, Mr Julius. ’ She smiled and crossed over to her father. ‘Hello, Father. ’