Astercote

Goacher is a throwback to a past time. From the moment that the children catch sight of him, with his long, matted hair and old ragged clothes, it's clear that this is definitely not the Twentieth-Century Burton man. Could it be, as the children's village of Astercote was wiped out by the Black Death in the fourteenth century, that there is some mysterious connection between Goacher and this past? The story develops along this spooky hypothesis with the scent of plague in the air, and the supernatural never far away. Or is it that, sophisticated as we think we are, we are just as superstitious as the folks were in these pre-media, medieval times?