High above the tiny hamlet of Grockleton stands Beesley Manor home to the ominous Landlord and hisshall we say genetically ambiguentminions including Pooch a crosseyed marksman and Dobbin who likes to drink gasoline The Landlord keeps a watchful eye over his domain brutally dispatching any strangers who enter except for females he needs to involuntarily sire a Beesley heirWhen three unsuspecting travelers arrive the Landlord plans to make two of them his trophies and the other his brideunless they can beat him at his own game