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Somewhere in a very ordinary house, a little girl has schizophrenic visions of a library: huge and beautiful
The Doctor's psychic paper has brought him to the biggest library in the universe, the size of a planet, and it's unsettlingly empty. Also, there's a little -x- kiss in the psychic message. But bio-scans claim that the library is [[Nightmare Fuel|not actually empty at all,]] so where ''is'' everyone? And where's the little girl? And why is a robot with a human face telling them to count the shadows?
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No time to dwell on that, though, as the library is infested with flesh-eating shadows. Vashta Nerada. They're not every shadow... [[Primal Fear|but they're any shadow]]. They live on any planet that provides meat. Yes, [[Paranoia Fuel|including Earth]].
River Song turns out to have a sonic
The shadows kill one archaeologist, Evangelista, stripping her flesh and leaving only a skeleton. The sound system in her protective suit is linked to her neural pathways and echoes her voice long after she's died, which is appropriately terrifying. Another is killed, with the Vashta Nerada animating his suit and chasing everyone else through the blacked-out hallways.
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{{quote|"The real world is a lie, and your nightmares are '''real'''."}}
The Doctor tries to teleport Donna back to the TARDIS, using the teleporter in the library's [[Running Gag|little shop]]. But she is yanked out of
== Tropes ==
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* [[Continuity Nod]]: "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E09 The Empty Child|Squareness]] [[Doctor Who/Recap/S27/E10 The Doctor Dances|gun]]!"
** [[Steven Moffat]] has confirmed that it's Jack's gun, left in the TARDIS at the end of Series 2.
* [[Conversational Troping]]: The Doctor and Donna discuss how [[Time Travel]] can lead to [[Spoiler
* [[Creepy Monotone]]: "[[Apocalyptic Log|Run. For god's sake, run. The library has sealed itself. We can't. Oh. They're here. Agh. Slaugh. Snik. Message ends.]] [[Dissonant Serenity|Please switch off your mobile comm units for the comfort of other readers.]]"
* [[Cutting the Knot]]: The Doctor is trying to figure out how to get a door open with his sonic screwdriver ("It doesn't ''do'' wood!"). Donna just slams into it, knocking it open.
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* [[San Dimas Time]]: Notably subverted, unusually enough for ''[[Doctor Who]].'' You could usually count on everyone the Doctor meets remembering events in the same order; this is one of the first episodes to play with that.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: Scaring viewers into hiding behind the sofa was no longer enough. This is the episode that decides to ''scare them out''.
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]]
* [[Spooky Silent Library]]: Yet another trope that was [[Trope Namer|inspired by this episode]].
* [[Time Travel Tense Trouble]]: River has a bit of this talking about her history with the Doctor.
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