the more the doctor dreams the quack said the more real i become he has not yet dreamed me fully but he willwhen the tardis lands in the idyllic gardens of a victorian country house ace knows that something terrible is bound to happen the doctor disagrees sometimes things really are as perfect as they seem then they discover a young girl whose body has been possessed by a beautiful but lethal insect and they meet the people of the house innocents who have never known age pain or death until now now their rural paradise is turning into a world of nightmare a world in which the familiar is being twisted into something evil and strange a world ruled by the quack whose patent medicines are deadly poisons and whose aim is the total destruction of the doctor