A Noiva Bestial - Contos do Povo Animal (2009)?
Esta revisão corresponde a várias histórias que você mencionou.
Uma garota de salamandra de fogo sendo roubada e levada para o inferno, onde seu criador teve que resgatá-la.
Marly Youmans’ “The Salamander Fire” takes us through farmer’s markets, the mysteries of glassblowing, love and hell in an odd blend of the myths of Pygmalion and Orpheus. Youmans may try to cover too much territory in a short story: there’s all the meat of a novel in here: but if so, there are far worse faults.
Um homem-puma (?) Tem um filho com um homem e o deixa.
With the dispassionate eye of a cat eviscerating its mouse, Tanith Lee tells a story of love and disillusionment in “The Puma’s Daughter”. An arranged marriage to a lovely were-cougar takes a very decent young man outside his familiar community — and outside the bounds of his reality — leaving us to judge for ourselves just who (if anyone) has really been wronged. There are two sides to almost every troubled marriage, and Lee very carefully delivers no auctorial verdict to simplify things for us here.
Uma garota moderna conversa com Ganesha e seu rato e talvez faça um passeio numa estrada de Nova York com ele.
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Ford’s odd and delightful “Ganesha” is the only story I’ve ever read of the Hindu deities that treats them with such a blend of whimsy and reverence. His author’s note informs us that a writing student from India told him, “If you write with an open heart, Ganesha will accept it.” And the evidence at hand shows plainly that he took that advice to (open) heart. Gods, demons and the roots of artistic development collide gently and wildly in this off-beat little tale of teen angst.
Eu acredito que havia um puma ou talvez um urso na frente de árvores com um humano ao lado. Arte não realista, mas bem feita.
A capa tem um urso e uma garota na floresta. É bem lindo.
Encontrado com a consulta do Google coleção de contos de fantasia "salamandra" "eram puma" que retornou a revisão acima.