Mermaids!

Short stories about mermaids.

1 The Prevalence of Mermaids [Adventures in Unhistory] (1986) essay by Avram Davidson 29 Nothing in the Rules (1939) novelette by L. Sprague de Camp 58 She Sells Sea Shells (1983) shortstory by Paul Darcy Boles 72 The Soul Cages (1825) shortstory by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker ] 85 Sweetly the Waves Call to Me (1981) shortstory by Pat Murphy 99 Driftglass (1967) shortstory by Samuel R. Delany 118 Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well (1959) shortstory by Reginald Bretnor 125 The Nebraskan and the Nereid (1985) shortstory by Gene Wolfe 134 The Lady and the Merman (1976) shortstory by Jane Yolen 138 The White Seal Maid (1977) shortstory by Jane Yolen 143 The Fisherman's Wife (1982) shortstory by Jane Yolen 150 Till Human Voices Wake Us (1984) shortstory by Lewis Shiner 163 A Touch of Strange (1958) shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon 177 Something Rich and Strange (1961) shortstory by Randall Garrett and Avram Davidson 200 The Crest of Thirty-six (1980) shortstory by Davis Grubb 212 The Shannon Merrow (1982) shortstory by Cooper McLaughlin 230 Fish Story (1953) shortstory by Leslie Charteris 242 In the Islands (1983) shortstory by Pat Murphy 256 Recommended Reading List (Mermaids!) (1986) essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois