Mermaids!

Short stories about mermaids.1 The Prevalence of Mermaids [Adventures in Unhistory] (1986) essay by Avram Davidson29 Nothing in the Rules (1939) novelette by L. Sprague de Camp58 She Sells Sea Shells (1983) shortstory by Paul Darcy Boles72 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 Murphy99 Driftglass (1967) shortstory by Samuel R. Delany118 Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well (1959) shortstory by Reginald Bretnor125 The Nebraskan and the Nereid (1985) shortstory by Gene Wolfe134 The Lady and the Merman (1976) shortstory by Jane Yolen138 The White Seal Maid (1977) shortstory by Jane Yolen143 The Fisherman's Wife (1982) shortstory by Jane Yolen150 Till Human Voices Wake Us (1984) shortstory by Lewis Shiner163 A Touch of Strange (1958) shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon177 Something Rich and Strange (1961) shortstory by Randall Garrett and Avram Davidson200 The Crest of Thirty-six (1980) shortstory by Davis Grubb212 The Shannon Merrow (1982) shortstory by Cooper McLaughlin230 Fish Story (1953) shortstory by Leslie Charteris242 In the Islands (1983) shortstory by Pat Murphy256 Recommended Reading List (Mermaids!) (1986) essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois