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Does anybody know of any good horror-related novels, short stories, novellas, essays, colletions with a particular story, related to
mermaids?
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Hope this helps!
The monster in Rich Ristow's Into the Cruel Sea is somewhat related, but more like the Creature from the Black Lagoon than a mermaid. It should also be available for Kindle soon. There is an excerpt on the web page.
Also, in Tabloid Terrors 2: Nessie Tried to Pimp My Wife, there is a story involving a mermaid plus one about sirens.
Here's a little excerpt from "Golden Mermaid has Shitty Midget Fetish!" He laid on his belly, unconcerned about how wet his front side got, and scooted down to the red-haired beauty. The stench of the sewer hit his nose hard, but her rosy lips were too inviting for that to detour him. But she didn't kiss him. Instead, her mouth stretched wide open, exposing two long rows of translucent, razor-sharp teeth. She turned her head sideways and bit into his cheeks. His screams were muffled in her throat. With a loud crunch and a slurp, the lower half of his face was gone. Blood sprayed across the pavement and into the gutter as she pulled the rest of the convulsing body in to eat. Dave knelt to pull his friend away from her, and a separate set of clawed hands reached out to grab him. Both arms were pulled into the dark slit leading under the sidewalk. His head smacked the curb and he was pinned while the other creature gnawed his arms to the bone. After their juicy meal, Urethea and her silver-haired father, Niptoon, dropped the remains and swam down the sewer, four feet deep in fecal matter and run-off from the streets. From waist up, they looked human again; blood and other fluids were smeared on their skin. The rest of them resembled a fish with one large tail and a few strong fins on the sides to balance them upright when necessary. They looked content; satisfied from the first fresh meal they'd had since the last rain. Niptoon belched and Urethea stifled a giggle, more at the way his nipples jiggled than the gas release. His one birth defect, the one that kept his upper half from appearing completely human, was his nipples. They were eight inches long and always flopped around like soft rubber. He was sensitive about it, however, and since he was the king of his people, no one dared ridicule him about it, even his daughter. |
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The Copulating Mermaid of Venice by Charles Bukowski is my favourite mermaid story. :-)
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Brian Keene's Conqueror Worms. I also think that it is a combination of 2 shorter works which I haven't read, only one of which featured mermaids.
I'm sure someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
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There's a series of comics about people who've become immortal by eating mermaids' flesh by Rumiko Takashi. Those aren't bad at all.
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There's always that great film called (something like) "Night Tide." (Anybody remember that one?) And if you can shift the definition to include
something like sirens, you'll arrive at amazing works like Delany's "Driftglass" and Gifune's "Blood in Electric Blue."
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Carnaby's Fish. The name of the author escapes me right now -- it might have been Carl Jacobi (?).
I'm a "she."
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It's a good topic actually. I've always found these myths distubingly erotic (in the most deliciously Freudian way). Fuck Disney for sanitizing them.
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yes, weren't they originally supposed to lure sailors to their deaths, and now we mostly think of them as cute and helpful?
But whether good or ill, isn't their thing always that they're stuck between two worlds, and if they come to ours, they die, and if they drag us into theirs, we die - sort of the whole problem of falling in love, in general: if you bend the beloved to your will, s/he's not him/herself anymore and you've violated him/her; if you surrender completely to him/her, you lose yourself. Random: The mermaids in the one Harry Potter were quite harrowing, I thought. It's not a story, but for people who play WoW, the Naga are a race of very nasty merpeople. Kierkegaard uses a legend of a merman falling in love with a human lady in Fear and Trembling, III.2. Your own painting above looks like someone's interpreted the sirens as mermaids. Don't people who try to rationalize myths think that sailors really saw manatees?
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Besides Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid, which is fairly horrific on its own (forget the Disney version, although it had some nice horror
moments as well), I believe Charlie Grant had a novel out years ago that had a mermaid or siren as its monster. Maybe it was another writer -- I just can't
remember. I feel as if I was in my 20s when it hit the stores, so it would've been during the 1980s. I didn't pick it up, but I remember the cover art,
which was nice.
I wrote a short story called, not coincidentally, "The Little Mermaid," about a woman who encounters an old man on the beach and then this turns her life into a strange, beautiful, horrifying nightmare. And in my novel, The Priest of Blood, I have lamprey-mermaids in the milky waters that surround the buried city of Alkemara. I think mermaids are excellent subjects for horror, if done right. |
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There's a cyberpunk/horror/sci-fi story in my antho Traps by Cody Goodfellow which has a "mermaid legend" in it...
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If we're having SF as well, I trust everybody's familiar with Lewis Shiner's 'Til HUman Voices Wake Us?
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There's a story in CERN ZOO called 'The Last Mermaid'.
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My novel "The Sirens" concerns mermaids and fisher cults on the isle of Skye in Scotland
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Dear Ron --
Yeah, NIGHT TIDE was Curtis Harrington's first feature film, giving a very young Dennis Hopper his first starring role as the sailor who falls in love with...well, you figure it out. You can really feel Curtis busting out of his experimental short film roots, trying to wrap his hands around narrative. So the film is arty and dreamlike, wonderfully shot in black and white, but grounded in working-class Santa Monica, CA, and the palpable influence of Val Lewton (whose CAT PEOPLE this movie clearly riffs on). I have very warm feelings about this film. Also a big fan of the glorious SHE CREATURE by Sebastian Gutierrez, starring Rufus Sewell and Rya Kihlstedt as the most scary/gorgeous mermaid I've ever seen. Sorry about the film geek break. Back to the stories! Yer pal, Skipp
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Rob Dunbar |
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That's it! Very CAT PEOPLE, only with fins instead of whiskers. Lots of shadows under the boardwalk, moonlight on the surf. Wonderful atmosphere.
(Who the fuck is "Ron"?) |
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John Skipp |
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Dear Rob --
"Ron" is you with a typo, as rendered by Ricky Retardo (also known as ME!). Yer pal, Skipp |
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The very first story in "Traps" is a very interesting take on mermaids.
If memory serves, it's by Dan Foley. (Unless Dan did NOT write that story, in which case, whoever DID write it will be equally as pissed at me!) And of course, the most amazing story in the thing... truly brilliant...worthy of the Albert Einstein Award for literature...with a fan base numbering in the millions... was written by that humble and modest (but incredibly talented) author.... Damn! Now, WHAT was his name? Oh yeah. ME! |
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Rob Dunbar |
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Sorry, Skipp. There's this batty old broad who posts here who's been addressing me as "Ron" for years. Drives me up the freaking wall.
(She's famous for sending me private messages like: "Ron, where are those manuscript pages you were typing for me?" Of course, I'll write
back, "My name is Rob, and I don't know that the fuck you're talking about. Please, stop sending me email." A few days later, I'll
inevitably get, "Ron, I'm still waiting for those pages.") Come to think of it, I haven't seen her around lately. She must be
"away."
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Rob Dunbar |
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Or possibly using the name "Hal."
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"I Hear the Mermaids Singing" by Nancy Holder from Hottest Blood is not just awesome it's a Stoker winner.
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