Free “Doctor Who” Novel: Nightshade

Free novel from The New Doctor Who Adventures series: “Nightshade” by Mark Gatiss. Download it in pdf format or read it online.

All around the cluttered cloisters, musty rooms and high, vaulted halls there was a deep and tangible hush. The only light in the virtually impenetrable gloom was of a peculiarly pellucid green, spilling out feebly from every heavy wooden door and misaligned stone. Everywhere, there was a terrible sense of stagnancy, imbuing the whole place with a fetid, neglected atmosphere, as though some great cathedral had been flooded by a brackish lagoon.

From out of the cobwebbed shadows emerged a little group of very old men, resplendent in their ornately decorated robes.

The least ancient of the group, a white-haired individual with piercing eyes and a down-turned, haughty mouth, lifted the hem of his robes as he detached himself from the others, sending little flurries of dust over the flagstones. He murmured a few words of apology to his comrades and melted away into the shadows.

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