Ghost stories have been told throughout the centuries, and whilst many may not have quite the same impact on a modern audience than on its contemporary one, there are some that can still evoke fear and unease even all this time later. Building on that tradition, now bestselling historian Dan Jones retells this medieval ghost story in crisp and creepy prose. The dog issues the tailor with a warning: he must go to a priest and ask for absolution and return to the road, or else there will be consequences…įirst recorded in the early fifteenth century by an unknown monk, The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings was transcribed from the Latin by the great medievalist M.R. Then, out of nowhere, the tailor is knocked off his horse by a raven, who then transforms into a hideous dog, his mouth writhing with its own innards. It was dank, wet and gloomy he couldn’t wait to get home and sit in front of a blazing fire. One winter, in the dark days of King Richard II, a tailor was riding home on the road from Gilling to Ampleforth.
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