Millennial Rites is a novel written by Craig Hinton. Released in 1995, it is the fifteenth novel in Virgin Publishing's Missing Doctor Adventures series and tells of reality breaking as a new millennium begins.
Characters[]
- Sixth Doctor
- Mel Bush
- The Valeyard
- Melaphyre - an alternate version of Mel
- Yog-Sothoth (or the Great Intelligence)
- Saraquazel - the Great Old One who created the Millennium Codex
- Ashley Chapel - the designer of the micromonolithic circuit, who summons Saraquazel
- Anne Travers
- The Archimage Magnus Ashmael - an alternate version of Ashley Chapel
- Anastasia - an alternate version of Anne Travers
- Barry Brown - one of Ashley Chapel's workers, who steals the Millennium Codex
- Bartholomew - an alternate version of Barry
- Derek Peartree - one of Ashley Chapel's workers, made into a cybrid by Chapel
- Julia Prince - one of Mel's ex-classmates
- David Harker - Ashley Chapel's head of security
- Louise Mason - one of Ashley Chapel's workers
- Cassie - the daughter of Barry and Louise
- James Campling - one of Ashley Chapel's workers
Publisher's summary[]
- "The Millennium, Mel: the last New Year's Eve of the Twentieth century. But it's definitely not party time."
England, 1999: the Sixth Doctor and Mel have come to London to celebrate the new year with old friends — and to heal old wounds. But others are making more sinister preparations to usher in the new millennium. A software house is about to run a program that will change the fabric of reality. And an entity older than the universe is soon to be reborn.
When Anne Travers' fear of the Great Intelligence and millionaire philanthropist Ashley Chapel's secret researches combine, London is transformed into a dark and twisted mirror image populated by demons and sorcerers. Only the Doctor can put things right, but his friends have also been shockingly changed and he cannot trust anybody — least of all himself.