The Monsters from Earth ( short story ) The Monsters from Earth was a short story published by World Distributors in September 1965 . It was the fourth short story to be published in the " Doctor Who Annual 1966 " . Synopsis . Two children playing hide and seek use the TARDIS as a hiding place and , while exploring , accidentally become stowaways on the ship . Plot . Amy Barker and her brother , Tony , are playing hide and seek when Amy and their dog , Butch , use the police telephone box as their hiding place . Amy believes that the fantastic box is a some sort of spaceship and begins to explore . Tony is warier , but eventually follows his sister . When his elbow hits the door , it swings shut and the children are locked into the TARDIS . Soon after the First Doctor returns , unhappy that he had landed on Earth in 1966 instead of some faraway world . He dematerialises the TARDIS and leaves for another world and time . When the TARDIS materialises , the Doctor realises that the TARDIS is not on firm ground and he grabs a flashlight to go out into the dark to investigate . After the door opens , the TARDIS lurches and throws the Doctor out . After a short fall , the Doctor switches on his light and sees that the TARDIS has landed upon a giant web which also snagged him , saving him from a great fall . The Doctor surmises from the darkness and the web he is in a great cavern . When he looks toward the TARDIS , the lights shining through the open door illuminates a giant spider , considerably larger than a full grown man . The Doctor finds that the spider cowers when the light from his flashlight is shined upon him . He uses his new found knowledge to make his way from strand to strand and back to the TARDIS . The Doctor prepares a syringe of prussic acid , and when he sprays it at the spider , both it and the TARDIS fall to the floor of the cavern . As he again steps out of the TARDIS , the Doctor notices a perfectly round hole covered by a door . When the door swings open , bright light fills the cavern and the Doctor climbs through . The Doctor finds himself in a cage , viewed by humanoid creatures with grey skin and no clothing known as Sensorite s . When the Doctor demands to be released the Sensorites shrink back , fearful of him because he came out of the spider ' s lair alive . While some wish to destroy him , others are intrigued and reach through the bars to touch him , and he places the syringe safely out of reach . He soon finds that the spiders , known as Zilgan s , are used by the Sensorites to punish their criminals . They take the Doctor prisoner for killing the Zilgan . Tony and Amy wake under a bench where they hid when they found they were locked in the TARDIS . Tony remembers seeing an old man working controls before falling asleep , but doesn ' t know where he has gone . Seeing the door open , they prepare to venture outside just as the ship begins its fall to the cavern floor . Having been shaken during the fall , the children finally exit the TARDIS and see the porthole and giant spider . Tony realises that they must not be on Earth anymore . Exiting through the porthole Tony sees the planet ' s two suns . Amy and Butch soon join him and they set off to explore . The children chance upon a large amphitheatre and see the old man strapped to a circular dais in the middle . Butch scampers to the dais and begins licking the Doctor . Seeing the dog and children , the Doctor at first believes he is hallucinating until Tony explains how they had accidentally travelled with him . The Doctor and the children plan an escape . Knowing the Sensorites fear the dark and cannot handle loud noises , he has the children enter a small underground passage they found and tells them to begin making loud noises as soon as he is unbound . As the Doctor waits , he begins to grow drier from his exposure to the dual suns . After what seems like hours , the Sensorites finally return and the Doctor finds that he is condemned to death for the killing of a sacred Zilgan . However , instead of being sent back into the cavern to be eaten , the Sensorites are determined to find a different method of destroying him . As the bonds are removed so the Doctor can be transported to his execution , he lets out his loudest yell and the children and their dog join in . The Sensorites , fleeing the noise , allow the children to come to the Doctor ' s aid and assist him in escaping . The three make their way back to the porthole and return to the cavern and the TARDIS . References . " to be added "