Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea Folk

Selchies and undine, merrows and mermaids, sea gods and sirens have peopled the imaginations of land folk from time immemorial. Now in these superb stories of the magical denizens of the sea, distinguished poet and storyteller Jane Yolen has taken themes from ancient myth, medieval romance, nineteenth-century fairytale and modern science fiction and woven them into original contemporary fantasies of compelling beauty and fascination.

In one, a loving wife rescues her husband from the deadly enchantment of a sea goddess; in another, a woman encounters Proteus on a New England seacoast; in a third, deep-sea magic lures a tourist from an antique shop in a back alley of London to the bottom of the Indian Ocean and a terrifying confrontation with an evil mer creature.