In his first-ever Doctor Who novel, Tom Baker’s incredible imagination is given free rein. A tale so epic it had been originally intended for the silver screen, Scratchman is certainly a gripping, white-knuckle thriller almost forty years in the making.

The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith arrive at a remote Scottish island, when their holiday is cut short by the looks of strange creatures – hideous scarecrows, who are preying on the neighborhood population. The islanders are living in dread, and the Doctor about Doctor Who: Scratchman: 4th Doctor Book vows to save them all. Nonetheless it doesn’t head to plan – enough time holidaymakers have fallen into a trap, and Scratchman can be coming on their behalf.

With the fate of the world hanging in the total amount, the physician must battle an ancient push from another sizing, one who claims to be the Devil. Scratchman wants to know what the physician is most scared of. As well as the Doctor’s most severe nightmares are coming out to play…

Tom Baker himself reads this legendary Doctor Who adventure, a spine-chilling thriller forty years in the making.

Duration: 8h 40m

Compiled by Tom Baker with James Goss Storyline by Tom Baker and Ian Marter Additional voices by Nicholas Briggs