Stories Book The Eighth Doctor Adventures [Books] The Taint 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews Statistics Quotes Overview Released February 1999 Written by Michael Collier Pages 280 Story Type New Companion Introduction Time Travel Past Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Occult, Robots Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth Synopsis The TARDIS has finally brought the Doctor and Sam back to Earth — and straight into danger. It is 1963. Six very different people have been gathered together for study by parapsychologist Charles Roley in his stately home outside London. All of them claim to have been possessed by the devil, and all have shared similar delusions — they describe the same bizarre "death cave" riddled with demons. Roley's experiments are having a gradual yet terrifying effect on his subjects, and the Doctor and Sam discover the connections between those tainted with the madness are more disturbing than anyone could guess. For the Doctor, too, has seen the cave they describe — on a dead world, billions of years ago. Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters Eighth Doctor Sam Jones Azoth Fitz Kreiner First Appearance Show All Characters (4) How to read The Taint: Books The Taint Reviews Add Review Edit Review Submit a Review Statistics AVG. Rating30 members 2.67 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating231 votes 3.19 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating15 votes 3.10 / 5 Member Statistics Read 53 Favourited 2 Reviewed 0 Saved 3 Skipped 1 Owned 4 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote