num_pages: 260
description: 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
language: English
title: Mermaids!
publisher: Ace Books