The Feast of Magog is an episode in The Worlds of Big Finish crossover release which featured Dorian Gray, the Graceless twins, Iris, Bernice and Sherlock Holmes.

Dorian is clearly enjoying the Roaring Twenties and has survived the horrors of World War One. He is continuing to hobknob amongst high society and this story sees him attending a party thrown by Evan Morgan.

Morgan is a historical figure, the 2nd Viscount Tredegar. His conversion to Catholicism and subsequent position as Chamberlain to two Popes is mentioned in the story in relation to the return, as has been common in the 19th Century and post-WW1 stories in this marathon, of a spiritual seance. Dorian comments on how popular seances became again in the wake of the Great War and this bring the story back into the shadow of World War One which has continued to cast itself over many of the stories set in the years after 1918 – even this one which is set nine years later.

In real life, Morgan owned a menagerie of exotic animals which is also referenced in the audio, as is his interest in the occult. His sexuality is also referenced with his desire to marry another character, Pamela St John Edwards, for procreation purposes, whilst clearly being attracted to Dorian.

At the party, Dorian meets Alexander Korvo, a character last seen in The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber (the Sherlock Holmes part of this release). He is pursuing a book (central to this series of stories) which in transpires is in the possession of Morgan. He sets up the seance to contact strange beings – Gog and Magog – who initially possess him and then Pamela.

Most of the story threads go unresolved as this is part of a larger whole but this still feels very much like the other Dorian Gray audios. In a way, it’s very similar to the Sherlock Holmes episode as it encapsulates the Dorian Gray range in the same way that one does for the Sherlock Holmes range. It has Dorian socialising with high society and dealing with an undefined supernatural threat. The Worlds of Big Finish release certainly seems to be an in-road into the various non-Doctor Who ranges of the company.