The Scent of Blood (audio story)

was an audiobook in the Audio Originals series from BBC Audio featuring the Eighth Doctor. It was read by Dan Starkey.
== Publisher's summary ==
It's the late 1890s, and newspaper journalist James MacFarlane is on the trail of a supernatural entity. He's joined in his investigations by a mysterious stranger, who calls himself the Doctor and professes to know a lot about vampires.
As gangs of locals gather zombie-like on the city's streets, James and the Doctor find themselves on a dangerous trail to find the truth. What links the secretive Lord and Lady Elmhurst to local events? What strange force is luring ordinary men and women to a local quarry? The Doctor soon realises that the answers lie in his own past...
== Plot ==
to be added
== Characters ==
* Eighth Doctor
* James MacFarlane
* Muirhead
* Lord Elmhurst
* Lady Elmhurst
== Worldbuilding ==
* Bowships were designed to fire huge lumps of metal through the heart of a Great Vampire.
== Notes ==
* The audio story Damaged Goods similarly shows the Seventh Doctor learning of the Torchwood Institute. In TV: Army of Ghosts, the Tenth Doctor claims that he had never heard of Torchwood.
* The story was reissued in the audio anthology Tales of Time and Space.
== Continuity ==
* Agnes McLaird was found dead in Stockbridge, an area of Edinburgh, not the village of the same name.
* James MacFarlane guesses that Gallifrey is in Ireland. (TV: The Hand of Fear, et al.)
* The Doctor says he became a qualified doctor in Edinburgh around this time. (TV: The Moonbase, Tooth and Claw)
* The Doctor notes that lifeforms were larger during the Dark Times, (PROSE: River of Time) and that during this time his people had not just one war (TV: State of Decay, PROSE: The Pit) but several. (PROSE: Sky Pirates!, et al.)
* The Doctors says that surviving Great Vampires hid beneath planetary surfaces (PROSE: Interference, TV: Inferno) or in "strange little pockets of space". (PROSE: The Pit, The Book of the War)
* The Doctor finds cryptic references to Torchwood in the files at the Edinburgh Herald, intending to look into them in the future. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, Tooth and Claw, et al.)
* The Doctor explains to James the history of Bowships. (TV: State of Decay, et al.)
== External links ==
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Category:Eighth Doctor audio stories
Category:2019 audio stories
Category:Stories set in Edinburgh
Category:Stories set in the 1890s
Category:Great Vampire stories
Category:One part audio stories
Category:Audio Originals audio stories