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• 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 byT. 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