Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • The Prevalence of Mermaids • [Adventures in Unhistory] • essay by Avram Davidson
• 29 • Nothing in the Rules • (1939) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 58 • She Sells Sea Shells • (1983) • short story by Paul Darcy Boles
• 72 • The Soul Cages • (1828) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 85 • Sweetly the Waves Call to Me • (1981) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 99 • Driftglass • (1967) • short story by Samuel R. Delany
• 118 • Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well • (1959) • short story by Reginald Bretnor
• 125 • The Nebraskan and the Nereid • (1985) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 134 • The Lady and the Merman • (1976) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 138 • The White Seal Maid • (1977) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 143 • The Fisherman's Wife • (1982) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 150 • Till Human Voices Wake Us • (1984) • short story by Lewis Shiner
• 163 • A Touch of Strange • (1958) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 177 • Something Rich and Strange • (1961) • short story by Avram Davidson and Randall Garrett
• 200 • The Crest of Thirty-Six • (1980) • short story by Davis Grubb
• 212 • The Shannon Merrow • (1982) • short story by Cooper McLaughlin
• 230 • Fish Story • (1953) • short story by Leslie Charteris
• 242 • In the Islands • (1983) • short story by Pat Murphy
• 256 • Recommended Reading List (Mermaids!) • essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois