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