Eighteen exotic tales of the sea’s most seductive mystery.

“The Prevalence of Mermaids” by Avram Davidson

“Nothing in the Rules” by L. Sprague de Camp

“She Sells Sea Shells” by Paul Darcy Boles

“The Soul Cages” by Thomas Crofton Croker

“Sweetly the Waves Call to Me” by Pat Murphy

“Driftglass” by Samuel R. Delany

“Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well” by Reginald Bretnor

“The Nebraskan and the Nereid” by Gene Wolfe

“The Lady and the Mereman” by Jane Yolen

“The Fisherman’s Wife” by Jane Yolen

“Till Human Voices Wake Us” by Lewis Shiner

“A Touch of Strange” by Randall Garrett and Avram Davidson

“The Crest of Thirty-six” by Davis Grubb

“The Shannon Merrow” by Cooper McLauglin

“Fish Story” by Leslie Charteris

“In the Islands” by Pat Murphy