The Night After Hallowe ' en ( short story ) The Night After Hallowe ' en was a special short story written by Mark B . Oliver for Halloween 2010 . Summary . What happens to all the monster masks , scary spiders , broomsticks and plastic skeletons that don ' t get sold before October 31st ? The Doctor is about to find out as he faces a nightmarish threat to humanity . Plot . Prologue . A young man named Justin is hiking alone and is lost on the cold night . He can find his way in the forest by the bright moonlight . He should have been back home several hours earlier , but had wandered off the trail and has had trouble getting out of the trees . He cannot see his compass well enough to use it . The wind picks up , but Justin realises it is not wind — it is a dark object flying above the trees , about to crash . Justin runs ahead to see if the pilot and passengers will need help . He reaches the clearing it landed in , but see no wreckage nor hears anything . He sits by a lake to call his mother on his mobile phone . A bony hand reaches from the water and grabs his ankle , dragging him into the lake . On the other end of the phone , his mother believes it a Hallowe ' en prank . Part one . Best friends and cousins Louie Rollins and Millie Peterson are leaving school , laughing and talking about the Hallowe ' en party the night before . Riding home Louie ' s bike tyre goes flat . He enters a warehouse to see if anyone has a phone to call his mother . No one is there , just a lot of Hallowe ' en paraphernalia made of authentic materials . He hears a scuffling noise , which then repeats itself , closer . A man crouches on a box . Louie asks him for help , but the man does not acknowledge him . The man has peeling grey skin and blank eyes . Louie is tapped on the shoulder by the Eleventh Doctor , who motions for him to be quiet and follow him . When they are a safe distance from the man , the Doctor introduces himself . He has come to help Louie and " mankind in general " . He gives Louie a mobile phone he got from Amy and Louie calls his mother . As the Doctor tries to walk Louie out of the warehouse to get him home , the grandfather clock began to tick loudly and the door shuts . The Doctor and Louie did not make it out the door in time . The Doctor tells Louie the man they saw had been dead for a few days and been animated like a puppet . Something runs over Louie ' s foot and they find the warehouse is infested with large spiders , which Louie had thought were just toys . One of the spiders had climbed the wall behind them , bared its fangs and jumped . Part two . Out of the corner of his eye , the Doctor saw the spider behind them and pulls Louie to the ground as it jumps over them . He tells Louie to do exactly what he says , and then clears a path by emitting a high - pitched sound from his sonic screwdriver , which causes them to cower back . Free from the spiders , Louie wishes to see the man they had seen earlier . As they walk over to that spot , they fail to see a pair of glowing red eyes watching them . Louie sees that the man is no longer sitting on the box and rushes to open it , against the Doctor ' s warnings . He finds some kind of machinery inside . Behind them , the man pushes up in a wooden wheelchair . The creature that possesses him talks to the Doctor , revealing that he murdered Justin and is reanimating his corpse . Louie then catches the red eyes and notifies the Doctor . They see a crystal skull around the eyes , and the eyes shoot red beams at them , which they duck from . Louie then realises that the skull throbs with the beat of his heart . The creature is feeding off fear . After Louie calms down and slows his heart rate , the skull sends another burst of energy , which Louie deflects with the machinery . The skull shatters to the floor but the explosion had caused a fire , and the Doctor and Louie manage to escape , but the alien is engulfed by the flames . The warehouse explodes , and the Doctor decides to take Louie home . Louie ' s mother had already met the Doctor earlier in the week . Outside at a Bonfire Night , the Doctor , Louie , and Millie witness an effigy of Guy Fawkes , as well as several others , come to life and advance towards the crowd . Part three . The Doctor , Louie , and Millie run to the edge of the park . The Doctor rushes to his TARDIS , which was next to some trees , unlocks it , and ushers the cousins into the TARDIS . The Doctor , needing to know how widespread the problem is , tunes into a news report on the TARDIS scanner . The reporter says that Guy Fawkes dummies around the United Kingdom have been " seemingly coming alive " , and that the Prime Minister is expected to make a statement . After unplugging a small device from the console , the Doctor lands the TARDIS opposite the burned warehouse , realising that he has been stupid all along and the alien has not died ; it has only meant for them to believe so . As they look more closely at the warehouse , they are able to see through the perception filter to find that the warehouse is not damaged at all . Louie and Millie refuse to take refuge in the TARDIS , saying that the Doctor will need them if things become dangerous . They enter the warehouse , which holds a spherical craft , and meet the rejuvenated alien disguised as a healthy Justin . He is using fear to power his ship and its fusion engines , which if activated will atomise everything within a 20 - mile radius . The Doctor gives the alien a chance , but it knocks his sonic screwdriver out of the way and jolts him with electricity . Louie dives at the alien ' s equipment with the Doctor ' s device and the figure begins to rapidly age and withers away . As Louie leads Millie into the TARDIS , the Doctor destroys the machinery . He tells Louie and Millie that the Guy Fawkes will not be animated due to the death of their animator , and the trio decide to return home to enjoy toffee apple s . Story notes . " to be added "