A recently retired historical researcher visits a 900-year-old inn and cannot stop himself from researching its past.
The area was too gloomy for close examination, but surely there should be rope marks.

Variants

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  1. . . . And Three to Go” by Ken Cowley, in Miscellany Macabre: Tales of the Unknown, edited by Ken Cowley (The British Fantasy Society, 1999).
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Ken Cowley