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By:Terrance Dicks
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Description:  Novelisation of the 1968 Doctor Who TV story The Web of Fear. Also available as an audio reading.

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Edition: UK (1st hardback)
Released:  August 1976
Publisher:  Allan Wingate
ISBN:0-85523-073-8
Format: hardback
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Also available in the ‘Doctor Who’ series

DOCTOR WHO AND THE ICE WARRIORS
Brian Hayles
The world is caught in the grip of a second Ice Age when an ancient Ice Warrior is discovered, perfectly preserved in the ice for centuries. Alarm spreads as it turns out to be an alien from Mars, and ruthlessly hostile.

DOCTOR WHO AND THE LOCH NESS MONSTER
Terrance Dicks
At last! The encounter of the fourth Doctor with the dreaded monster — will DOCTOR WHO be able to unravel the legend of Loch Ness, and overcome the power of the terrible ZYGONS?

DOCTOR WHO AND THE GENESIS OF THE DALEKS
Terrance Dicks
At the command of the Time Lords, the Doctor travels back to the time of the birth of the Daleks, in an attempt to totally destroy this terrible menace of the future. But even the Doctor cannot always win...

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The Yeti had been quiet for forty years. A collector’s item in a museum. Then without warning it awoke — and savagely murdered.

At about the same time patches of mist began to appear in Central London. People who lingered anytime in the mist were found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobweb seeped down, penetrating the Underground System. Slowly it spread...

Then the Yeti reappeared, not just one but hordes, roaming the misty streets and cobwebbed tunnels, killing everyone in their path. Central London was gripped tight in a Web of Fear...

Terrance Dicks was born in 1935 and educated at East Ham Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge.

After a spell in advertising the author became a full-time scriptwriter, first for radio, then television where for five years he was Script Editor of the ‘Doctor Who’ series. He is now a freelance author and writes many of the highly successful ‘Doctor Who’ books.

Terrance Dicks lives in Hampstead, London, is married and has three children. He is an obsessive reader, likes ‘messing about in boats’ and is cultivating an interest in mysticism and meditation.

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Edition: UK (1st paperback)
Released:  August 1976
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11084-6
Format: paperback
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Note:  A hardback reprint of this edition (even sharing the same ISBN) was released in late 2018 as part of The Target Book Collection, a test issue for a proposed magazine partwork that would have seen a different Target novelisation released every week along with a 16-page behind-the-scenes magazine. Ultimately the magazine series was not produced, so this remains a one-off — however it is notable as being the only hardback novelisation to bear the Target logo! (all the other hardback novelisations were published under the Allan Wingate or WH Allen imprints) This edition is not listed separately on this site as technically it was a magazine issue rather than a book publication.

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Forty years the Yeti had been quiet — Collector’s item [sic] in a museum. Then without warning it awoke — and savagely murdered.

At about the same time patches of mist began to appear in Central London. People who lingered anytime in the mist were found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobweb seeped down, penetrating the Underground System. Slowly it spread...

Then the Yeti reappeared, not just one but hordes, roaming the misty streets and cobwebbed tunnels, killing everyone in their path. Central London was gripped tight in a Web of Fear...

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Edition: UK (2nd hardback)
Released:  January 1978
Publisher:  WH Allen
ISBN:0-491-02184-4
Format: hardback
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No blurb on back cover. The inside cover flaps read as follows:

The Yeti had been quiet for forty years. A collector’s item in a museum. Then without warning it awoke — and savagely murdered.

At about the same time patches of mist began to appear in Central London. People who lingered anytime in the mist were found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobweb seeped down, penetrating the Underground System. Slowly it spread...

Then the Yeti reappeared, not just one but hordes, roaming the misty streets and cobwebbed tunnels, killing everyone in their path. Central London was gripped tight in a Web of Fear...

Terrance Dicks was born in 1935 and educated at East Ham Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge.

After a spell in advertising the author became a full-time scriptwriter, first for radio, then television where for five years he was Script Editor of the ‘Doctor Who’ series. He is now a freelance author and writes many of the highly successful ‘Doctor Who’ books.

Terrance Dicks lives in Hampstead, London, is married and has three children.

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Edition: UK (2nd paperback)
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ISBN:0-426-11084-6
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Note:  Same ISBN as previous paperback edition; merely an amended cover design, with a blue logo instead of purple.

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Same as previous paperback edition.

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Edition: UK (3rd paperback)
Released:  January 1983
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11084-6
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Note:  Same ISBN as previous paperback edition.

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Forty years the Yeti had been quiet — a collector’s item in a museum. Then without warning it awoke — and savagely murdered.

At about the same time patches of mist began to appear in Central London. People who lingered anytime in the mist were found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobweb seeped down, penetrating the Underground System. Slowly it spread...

Then the Yeti reappeared, not just one but hordes, roaming the misty streets and cobwebbed tunnels, killing everyone in their path. Central London was gripped tight in a Web of Fear...

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Edition: UK (4th paperback)
Title:  The Web of Fear
Released:  December 1993
Publisher:  Target
ISBN:0-426-11084-6
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Note:  Same ISBN as previous paperback editions.

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‘It’s like a nightmare. An enemy we can’t see or touch, who knows our every move.’

For forty years the Yeti has been quiet, a simple museum exhibit. Then without warning it wakes, and savagely murders. Meanwhile, patches of mist began to appear in central London. People who linger in the mist are found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobwebs seep down, penetrating the Underground System, expanding... Then the Yeti reappear, not just one but hordes, roaming the misty streets and cobwebbed tunnels, killing everyone in their path. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria must unite with the young Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart to stop the deadly menace.

This is the first story to feature Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart.

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Edition: UK (5th paperback)
Released:  April 2016
Publisher:  BBC Books
ISBN:978-1-78594-036-1
Format: paperback
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With a sudden, shattering roar the Yeti smashed down its arm in a savage blow...


The TARDIS is engulfed by a mysterious web-like substance in space. Breaking free, the Doctor and his companions Jamie and Victoria land in the London Underground system. But a spreading killer mist has meant that London has been evacuated. The Great Intelligence is back — and its robot Yeti are roaming the streets and the underground tunnels.

The Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria team up with an army unit working with their old friend Professor Travers to combat the menace. They soon realise, however, that someone in the group must be working for the Intelligence. With time running out, the Doctor and his friends realise they can trust no one...


THIS NOVEL IS BASED ON A DOCTOR WHO STORY WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY BROADCAST FROM 3 FEBRUARY-9 MARCH 1968.

Featuring the Second Doctor as played by Patrick Troughton with his companions Jamie and Victoria


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