Perivale, 1983. A column of smoke rises from the blazing ruins of the ignored, decaying mansion. Perivale, 1883. In the sleepy community of Greenford Parva, Gabriel Run after is by far the most imposing edifice. The villagers shun the grim home, however the owner, the reclusive and controversial naturalist Josiah Samuel Smith, gets occasional guests. The Reverend Ernest Matthews, for instance, Dean of Mortarhouse University, provides travelled from Oxford to refute Smith’s blasphemous ideas of progression. And in a deserted area upstairs, the Doctor and Ace business from your TARDIS to explore the decaying mansion… Who – or what – is usually Josiah Smith? What awful secret does his house conceal? And why will Ace find everything so frighteningly familiar? Ian Hogg, who played Josiah Smith in the initial Doctor Who Television serial, reads Marc Platt’s complete and unabridged novelisation, initial published by Focus on Books in 1990.