The green child

This Hoffmanesque account of a native's return to his village begins in England in 1830. Oliver leaves England and, through a series of accidents, finds himself Dr Olivero, dictator of Roncador in South America. Olivero then stages his own assassination and returns home. A stream which has mysteriously changed direction leads Olivero to a lonely mill. There he rescues the Green Child, a speechless creature with semi-transparent flesh, from her sadistic husband Kneeshaw. The Green Child leads Olivero to the millstream's source and plunges him into her strange, subterranean world.