Book Description Clive, a shy young taxman and keen cyclist, sets off on holiday to Germany. He follows the Rhine on his bicycle, branches off into a hilly, forested area and caught by darkness and mist decides to camp in the forest. He gets lost and stumbles across an old, decayed house. A very old and forbidding woman and a lot of dwarfs inhabit it and all seem hostile. Clive camps nearby and presses on in the morning, still unsure of his direction. He discovers that the dwarfs breed quantities of large and powerful goats, and that they ride these as well as sucking their blood for...