Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1995.). First edition - This book is "a tangle of tales that transports the reader from the Medieval India of magicians, witches, and vampires, through the British colonial period with its culture clashes and simmering unrest, into the chaos and political terror of contemporary India." The author is a "scholar and a story teller, Sanskritist and conjurist" and a professor of religion. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-226-756890.