Unlike volume 1 of Other Dimensions, this volume does not centre on science fictional tales. Instead, there is a mixture of the supernatural, including some fairly standard ghost stories, and stories which have no unworldly content. A number are set in India, but I would be surprised if the author actually visited there - one had two mentions of cacti being part of the local vegetation which surprised me and since finishing the collection I checked and as I thought, most cacti originate in the Americas with only one species being found in Africa and Sri Lanka, not India. Others take place in a sort of Arabian Nights setting.

Quite a few are really non stories: everything is mapped out and the protagonist comes to the long foreseen grisly end as in the tale of the man who has been having an affair with one of a rich man's wives and has been caught. Two of the Indian stories centre around the same idea of an elephant being the means of striking back at a rich man at his wedding: only the reason underlying the sought for revenge is different. None of them was really memorable or striking, unlike some of the stories in other Smith collections, so I can only rate this at an OK 2 stars. ( )