A Book of Monsters: Meet the Monster & Their Makers

by David J. Howe

They lumbered through space, lurched from the sea, slimed along ventilator shafts and even visited St Paul's Cathedral. They were the scourge of the Doctor's many lives: they were the monsters.Sending... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0563405627
• ISBN13: 9780563405627
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: BBC Books
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Not as good as other David J. Howe books

I agree with the previous reviewer who states that this is the most inferior of the David J. Howe series of reference books. The selection of photos are less than inspiring and much smaller than the ones in the previous books, and provide less visual enjoyment. It's not as easy a read either because the print is finer too. The breakdown of chapters is as follows: The more popular monsters and ones which overlap the classic series decades, such as the Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, and Ice Warriors, get their own chapter, while all the other monsters get categorized into three different chapters titled The Sixties, The Seventies, and The Eighties. Howe describes each monster as to the context of their respective stories, interviews creators and actors, and adds his own two-cents worth, a practice he avoids in his other two books. Due to "time and space constraints", as he puts it not every monster is featured in the main part of the book. He claims to have omitted from the main chapters "humanoid" type monsters like the Primords from Inferno, but curiously includes the Draconians, the Voords, etc. However, perhaps the saving grace of this book is an index of every monster in the classic series (even the "humanoid" ones) and characters you normally would not think of as monsters. The index is why I bumped this up to 4 stars. Without it, the book would be a 3 star effort. It includes a small picture of the monster in question with a brief description of the story in which it appears. Leafing through it, it seems like this index encompasses all the relevant monsters of the series. At least Howe was able to include everyone this way.