Starring a starfaring clown, their robot navigator and the quadrupedal Whale of Word Wood, The Monsters of Inkwhich Well's ninety-five stanzas tell the science-fantastical tale of Inkwhich City, a forest metropolis in whose mazes librarian Dinward, Boy At Well's Bottom and Father Leermeyer must battle a cast of uncanny creatures in an adventure from which they will not return.