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The tourist season is over and Inverdee Island is closing down and preparing for the winter. But when the body of Shelia Anderson is discovered, seemingly torn apart by a killer with inhuman strength, the islanders must join together to fight something terrifyingly unknown.
In 1978 David Wiltshire, a dentist with a sideline as a novelist, sold a SF horror novel called Child of Vodyanoi to the publisher Robert Hale Ltd. Then in 1980, BBC producer Ron Craddock was asked to provide a thriller in four half-hour episodes, to be shown at 8.20pm on a weekday evening. He considered several recently published novels and eventually settled on Child of Vodyanoi. The adaptation was handed to Robert Holmes, an obvious choice given his association with Doctor Who at a time when it had been pushing teatime gothic about as far as it could go. Director Douglas Camfield also had strong Doctor Who connections and had built up a reputation for delivering atmospheric, action dramas that belied their modest budgets.
Joining me to walk through the fog are my friends Ian Taylor and John Isles. Ian Taylor is a writer who has contributed to many magazines about cult movies and television and recently published All Sorts of Things Might Happen - The Films of Jenny Agutter. John Isles has written short stories for Big Finish and acted in and directed award winning short films.