Bay of the Dead (novel)

Bay of the Dead was the eleventh release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series.
== Publisher's summary ==
When the city sleeps, the dead start to walk…
Something has sealed off Cardiff, and living corpses are stalking the streets, leaving a trail of half-eaten bodies. Animals are butchered. A young couple in their car never reach home. A stolen yacht is brought back to shore, carrying only human remains. And a couple of girls heading back from the pub watch the mysterious drivers of a big black SUV take over a crime scene.
Torchwood have to deal with the intangible barrier surrounding Cardiff, and some unidentified space debris that seems to be regenerating itself. Plus, of course, the all-night zombie horror show.
Not that they really believe in zombies.
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
* Captain Jack Harkness
* Gwen Cooper
* Ianto Jones
* Rhys Williams
* PC Andy Davidson
* Jackie Hargreaves
* Joe Hargreaves
* Toby
* Steffan
* Curtis
* Stan
* Greg
* Sophie Gould
* Kirsty Lane
* Terry
* DS Kathy Swanson
* SOCO Guy Baker
* PC Dawn Stratton
* Hayley
* Martin
* Jace
* Trystan Thomas
* Sarah Thomas
* Rianne Kilkenny
* Nina Rogers
* Sister Felicity Andrews
* Mildred
* Winston
* Old man
* Sarah and Trystan Thomas' son
* Keith Samuels
* Naomi Samuels
* Jasmine Samuels
* Oscar Phillips
* Clare Phillips
* Nobby
* Alexander Martin
* Slug-Face
* Leet
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Individuals ===
* Joe and Jackie have been visiting Mike and Sue Roach.
* Toby has a sister called Jess and a girlfriend called Lauren.
* Curtis' friends call him Audley, after Audley Harrison.
* Steffan has an uncle.
* Gwen has nightmares following the deaths of Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato.
* Betty Prudom lives in the flat below Gwen and Rhys.
* Kathy thinks Myers is a nuisance.
* Sophie has a lodger called Kate.
* Emily Holroyd ran Torchwood in the 1890s.
* Ianto places Mildred in the cell next to Janet.
* Jasmine has a toy rabbit called Sunny.
* Gwen mentions her gran, who bought her a toy monkey called Bonzo.
* Alexander's nurse is called Ben.
=== Species ===
* Leet is a "child of the Dellacoi".
* Rhys at first believes the zombie outside his flat to be a Weevil.
* Leet uses search units based on stereotypical zombies.
=== Geography ===
* Roads and streets in Cardiff include Gabalfa Road, James Street, Greyfriars Road, Bradford Street, Corporation Road, Harrowby Street, Penarth Road, North Road, Bute Street, Railway Street and Madoc Road.
* Districts in Cardiff include Llandaff, Grangetown, Trowbridge, Butetown, Canton and Splott.
* Places in Wales include Cowbridge, Bonvilston, Merthyr and Penarth.
* Students attending Cardiff University come from Leicester, London, Newport, Liverpool and Southport among other places.
=== Businesses ===
* Rhys crashes his Saab.
* Gwen and Rhys take cover behind a Citroën.
* Gwen sarcastically asks Rhys if he is trying to call Rentokil.
=== Sport ===
* Audley Harrison is a boxer.
* Stan has had football trials with QPR and Southport.
=== Popular culture ===
* Steffan mentions Pirates of the Caribbean.
* Rhys compares a man to Jacob Marley.
* Rhys mentions Night of the Living Dead.
* Gwen compares Oscar's falling body to the flying Darling children from Peter Pan.
* Nobby refers to Naomi as Cruella De Vil's more obnoxious sister.
* Nobby's mobile ringtone is the theme tune from The A-Team.
==== Music ====
* Jackie and Joe listen to Elbow on the car radio.
* Andy owns the Only by the Night CD by Kings of Leon.
* Mildred wears a gore-spattered Girls Aloud T-shirt.
* Oscar is played Queen, Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen in his hospital bed.
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Gwen suggest calling UNIT for help.
* Staff and visitors to St Helen's Hospital show a touch of Dunkirk spirit.
== Notes ==
* The title appears to be a reference to Romero's movies, most notably .
* The dense fog which foreshadows the appearances of zombies in the novel appears to reference the cult horror film , in which a glowing fog sweeps over a Californian town, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of mariners killed in a shipwreck 100 years prior.
* Although it remains unnamed in the book, a reference is made to the film . Reference is also made to The Addams Family.
* This book is also available as an ebook from the Amazon Kindle store.
== Continuity ==
* The team is still affected by the deaths of Toshiko Sato and Owen Harper. (TV: Exit Wounds)
* Kathy Swanson appears. (TV: They Keep Killing Suzie, PROSE: Virus)
* Ianto remembers the cannibals from the Brecon Beacons. (TV: Countrycide)
* St Helen's Hospital appears. (TV: Dead Man Walking, TV: Exit Wounds)
* Nina Rogers appears. (PROSE: Into the Silence)
* Gwen and Rhys own a Saab. (PROSE: Border Princes)
* Jack remains distrustful of UNIT. (TV: Dead Man Walking, TV: Journey's End)
* Jack and Ianto use the Bekaran deep-tissue scanner. (PROSE: Another Life, Border Princes, Slow Decay)
* Jack vows to soon pay Alexander Martin a proper visit. (PROSE: The House That Jack Built)
== External links ==
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Category:Torchwood novels
Category:2009 novels
Category:Stories set in Cardiff