This fabulously titled book, The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones, is the story of haunted man. Tristan Hart is haunted by almost everything he comes into contact with. His childhood friend Nathaniel who as a child ate live Blue Tits and took Tristan on adventures for which they ended up in trouble. Then Nathaniel disappears from Tristan's life, he imagines kidnapped or willingly left with gypsies.
He is haunted by his father - who though not actually dead has a ghost-like appearance in Tristan's life; an observer, an interrupter, a closed book.
He is haunted by a childhood boogeyman