ÔWhy is it up to you to save us? ThatÕs quite a God complex you have there.Õ
Drawing deftly on sources from the Theseus myth to Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Shining, The God Complex (2011) expands a one-line brief about a shifting, labyrinthine hotel into a tragic commentary on the DoctorÕs fallibility and AmyÕs misplaced faith.
Unsettling, disorientating and frankly terrifying, Toby WhithouseÕs story considers fear, belief and the seriesÕ fundamental question: Who is the Doctor? Is he a hero, or simply Ôa madman in a boxÕ?