In the icy wastes of the Murgin Pass, the physician and Mike take refuge within a remote lodge alongside Albert Tiermann, storyteller towards the king. But the owner’s hospitality is usually repaid with a grisly assault, and suddenly loss of life is amongst the little party. What is the significance of a reserve of fairy tales, one of which prophesies the Doctor’s encounter with an Glaciers Queen monster? What long-held key is certainly Albert Tiermann holding back again? And what dark physique stalks the snowy mountainside? The answers to these queries add up to a terrifying encounter with a strangely familiar foe. With Tom Baker as the Doctor, Richard Franklin as Mike Yates, Samuel Western world as Tiermann, Carole Boyd as Frau Herz, Jan Francis as the Ice Queen, Tom Lawrence as Hans, and Susan Jameson as Mrs Wibbsey, A Shard of Ice may be the third of five linked stories written by the acclaimed Paul Magrs.