Enter a world where demons fall in love with deities, the unquiet dead are exorcised with food, and the love story of a shapeshifter and an ordinary man ends in tragedy. Featuring cross-dressing assassins, were-snakes, goddesses and demon kings, this collection of twenty-two short stories retells age-old tales from Indian mythology—with a twist. With footnotes and an afterword to each story explaining the mythology to casual readers, these short stories will delight lovers of the unusual.