Book description
The year is 1750.
Tristan Hart, precociously talented student of medicine practising
under the legendary Dr William Hunter. His obsession is the nature of
pain and preventing it; the relationship between mind and matter and
the existence of God. A product of the Age of Enlightenment, he is a
rational man on a quest to cut through darkness and superstition with
the brilliant blade of science.
Tristan Hart, madman and deviant. His obsession is the nature of
pain, and causing it. A product of an age of faeries and goblins,
gnomes and shape-shifting gypsies, he is on a quest to arouse the
perfect scream and slay the daemon Raw Head who torments his dark days
and long nights.
Troubled visionary, twisted genius, loving sadist. What is real and
what imagined in Tristan Hart's brutal, beautiful, complex world?
Jack Wolf was born in Bath, and has spent most of his life in rural
Somerset. He wanted to be a singer until his interests in faerie tales
and in social history led to a writing career.
The Tale of Raw Head
and Bloody Bones
is his first novel. He is currently studying for a PhD and working on
his second novel.
