Eighth Doctor Adventure written by Justin Richards © 2000
The late nineteenth century - the age of reason, of enlightenment, of
industrialisation. Britain is the workshop of the world, the centre of the
Empire.
Progress has left Middletown behind. The tin mine is worked out, jobs are
scarce, and a crack has opened across the moors that the locals believe reaches
into the depths of Hell itself.
But things are changing: Lord Urton is preparing to reopen the mine; the
Society for Psychical Research is interested in the fissure; Roger Nepath and
his sister are exhibiting their collection of mystic Eastern artefacts. People
are dying. Then a stranger arrives, walking out of the wilderness: a man with
no name, no history.
Only one man can unravel the mysteries; only one man can begin to understand
the forces that are gathering; only one man can hope to fight against them. And
only one man knows that this is just the beginning of the end of the world.
Only one man can stop The Burning.
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