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The Tiger's Skin

Lord Dunsany

First published 1949
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Per <i>The New Yorker</i>: "Tells about a man who came into a store and ordered a special billiard table to order--seven feet by eleven and half made for him. He said he wanted it to put a tiger skin on it. He went to India, but never came back for the table. A tiger had eaten him. The table was sold to some one that had a large house."

First published in The New Yorker, June 20, 1931.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1949 Cover The Man Who Ate the Phoenix Jarrolds Collection 100