Bhootbilli, the mysterious pigeon-devouring creature sighted in Pune in 2010

Remember that time as a kid, when you were up to some mischief, and the elders would try and terrify you with stories of the 'bogeyman' — how he'd come and take you away if you didn't mend your ways. Then, the stories seemed believable enough to deter us from not becoming the monsters that we most feared. Delhi-based writer and illustrator Anupam Arunachalam's new children's book Tooth and Nail, Fur and Scale (Penguin Random House) will take you back to where these hauntings first began. Fifteen eerie stories and illustrations revisit the fantastic beasts and monsters from ancient Indian myths and legends like never before.