When Tom Gaman was 11 years old, he was speared to death by an unhinged pack of tweens, faces covered with mud as they ran around a pyre in loincloths chanting, “Kill the beast!”
Tom, now a 74-year-old Inverness resident, was playing Simon, the pensive towheaded boy written into existence by English author William Golding for his debut and magnum opus, “Lord of the Flies.” When director Peter Brook asked him to star in…