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In this tale, one of Chaucer's pilgrims, the carpenter, tells of the evil that overcame one Simon Cotter, a man so poor he was forced to become a hangman. The nightmares induced by his job spill over into his days as he walks the streets of Gloucester.
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Paul Doherty was born in Middlesbrough. He studied History at Liverpool and Oxford Universities and obtained a doctorate for his thesis on Edward II and Queen Isabella. He is now headmaster of a school in north-east London and lives with his family in Essex.
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