A BOOK OF MONSTERS

By David J. Howe

'YOU WILL BE EX-TER-MIN-ATED!'

What was it that sent children scurrying behind the sofa at tea-time? Why did millions of households tune into BBC1 on Saturday evenings, week after week? What turned the BBC television series Doctor Who from being a partly educational show for children into an internationally acclaimed success? It was the monsters. Daleks... Cybermen... Sea Devils... Sontarans... Sil... The Haemovores... Now you can discover more as A Book of Monsters takes you behind the scenes of Doctor Who to meet the monsters and their makers. Packed with rare pre-production design drawings and photographs and including candid comments and recollections from those people who actually devised, created and played the monsters.

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