Armes with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men 0- a clan of fierce, sheep-stealing, sword-fighting, seord-wielding, six-inch-high blue men. Together they must face headless horsemen, ferocious grimhounds, terrifying fdreams come true, and ultimately the sinister Queen of the Elves herself.