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