[Ballantine Adult Fantasy 10] • Land of Unreason

Never has a liking for milk landed a man in so much trouble.

 Fred Barber, a thoughtful man of antic minded humor, having drunk the milk put out for the little people, replaced his borrowing with an offering of Scotch. Never thinking for a moment, of course, that anything would come of it

 What was his surprise then, later in the night, to be assailed and kidnapped by a bunch of drunken elves…

Thus the beginning of this altogether  delightful fancy, long acknowledged as  the best of the collaborations between  two notable writers: