1. An Ancient Evil
At the Tabard Inn, Chaucer’s pilgrims agree to exchange tales during their journey to Canterbury, and the Knight begins with a story whose origins reach back to the Norman Conquest. Sir Hugo Mortimer once destroyed a sinister cult in Oxfordshire, but two centuries later a new…
2. A Tapestry of Murders
As Chaucer’s pilgrims travel towards Canterbury, the Man of Law tells a story set in 1358 around the death of Isabella of France, widow of Edward II and mother of Edward III. Her final years at Castle Rising have been shadowed by the memory of Roger…
3. A Tournament of Murders
Sheltering in a friary on the road to Canterbury, Chaucer’s pilgrims hear the Franklin recount a mystery rooted in the aftermath of the Battle of Poitiers. In 1356 the dying knight Gilbert Savage tells his squire, Richard Greenele, that the story he has been given about…
4. Ghostly Murders
As Chaucer’s pilgrims shelter in the ruins of a church on their road to Canterbury, the Poor Priest tells a story set in the troubled parish of Scawsby. Philip Trumpington, the new parish priest, discovers that the church and surrounding marshes are haunted by memories of…
5. The Hangman’s Hymn
During their pilgrimage, Chaucer’s company comes upon an execution whose grim spectacle leaves the carpenter badly shaken. That evening he tells a darker story about a Gloucester hangman drawn into the secret punishment of three women accused of witchcraft, an act followed by a succession of…
6. A Haunt of Murder
As Chaucer’s pilgrims travel through Kent, darkness leaves them lost in a forest reputed to be haunted. Around the fire, with unfamiliar sounds beyond the camp, the Clerk of Oxford answers the company’s unease by telling a tale in which love, death and the supernatural appear…
7. The Midnight Man
As Chaucer's pilgrims shelter for the night, it's the physician's turn to enthral his fellow travellers with a terrifying tale. When Brother Anselm and his novice Stephen are summoned to the Church of St Michael's, Candlewick, to perform an exorcism, the demons that plague the church…