The Monster Vault
Our verdict on the latest episodes and products.
ALEX ROMEO
Book
BBC Books RRP £25 Written by Jonathan Morris and Penny CS Andrews
The Raston Warrior robot in The Five Doctors (1983); and Skaldak, the Ice Warrior from Cold War (2013).
Spreads from The Monster Vault showing the Dalek from Resolution (2019) and Krillitanes from School Reunion (2006).
Over the years, there have been many guides to the monsters that inhabit the worlds of Doctor Who. The fi rst of these, Terrance Dicks’ magnifi cent The Doctor Who Monster Book (1975), had entries covering the Doctor’s most notable and photogenic foes. That volume was swiftly followed by a sequel and, over the years, by bigger (but not necessarily better) works attempting to do much the same job. So what’s diff erent about this latest tome?