The Last Canterbury Tales

Translated, with an afterword, by Scott Nicolay / February 2026 / 5.375 x 8, 168 pp. / 978-1-962728-09-6 A window in the night is a terror. I have known people who went crazy just waiting for the nightmare being to emerge from the darkness and press its mortal face to the panes. After 600 years, Geoffrey Chaucer and his fourteenth-century pilgrims overcome space and time to return to the Tabard Inn in Southwark, freshly cleansed of their sins, to resume the literary work left unfinished so long before. This time it is a new cast of storytellers picking up where the others had left off—a motley crew that includes a Prioress with a taste for executions, a sailor scarred by a filthy pinkness, a man named Mayeux who is also Uriah Chickenhead, and a madman who once made the mistake of asking after the Uhu. Among them is also a new listener: Tobias Weep, secretary of the Upper Thames Book Club, who has stumbled onto their impossible gathering, pinned to his chair by the impossible weight of