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|title=The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones

|sort=Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones, The

|publisher=Chatto & Windus

|date=January 2013

|summary=A dark, visceral and dangerously compelling new twist on an eighteenth century Gothic novel. Raw bloody enjoyment.

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It doesn’t take long for Jack Wolf’s extraordinary pastiche eighteenth century novel ''The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones'' to show its true stripes. Narrator Tristan Hart’s best friend Nathanial is handsome, charming and athletic, and also prone to ‘snatching blue Tits from the Hedges, and consuming them direct upon the Spot.’ In that phrase you see both the heart-stopping nastiness that pulses through ''Raw Head and Bloody Bones'' and the fascinating attitude to Gothic duality that lies at its core.