Our Mermaids Are Different: In 'Salt Wine', a merman rewards a sailor who rescued him by giving him the recipe for salt wine.

Our Ghosts Are Different: In A Fine and Private Place and Tamsin.

Despite this difference of opinion and other differences, it's a quite close friendship. Odd Friendship: In 'Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros', a professor is friends with what he insists is a talking Indian Rhinoceros.Menstrual Menace: 'Lila the Werewolf' purposely plays with the similarities between menstruation and lycanthropy.Literary Allusion Title: 'The grave's a fine and private place / But none, I think, do there embrace.'.Historical Domain Character: Judge Jeffreys in Tamsin.Hanging Judge: Judge Jeffreys in Tamsin.Lukassa in The Innkeeper's Song is brought back from the dead, but can't remember anything, not even her lover, Tikat.The driving force of the plot is finding out what the so-called Other One had to do with her death - which Tamsin herself has forgotten because she was so terrified of him. Sometimes she remembers herself very well, right down to her crooked teeth other times she has gaping holes in her body because she can barely remember anything. In Tamsin, the eponymous ghost appears to others as she remembers herself.Ghosts in general gradually forget their lives, and become less detailed and less definite in appearance as they forget what they looked like. In A Fine And Private Place, one ghost forgets how he died.Formally-Named Pet: Tamsin features a cat simply named Mister Cat, and another named Miss Sophia Brown.

Follow the White Rabbit: In Tamsin, Mister Cat leads Jenny to the secret room where they find the ghosts of Tamsin and Miss Sophia Brown.Amnesiac Lover: Lukassa in The Innkeeper's Song, caused by her own death.Beagle provides examples of the following tropes:

Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle