1. Christina Rossetti "The Lowest Room"
2. Elizabeth Gaskell, "The Old Nurse's Story."
3. Hans Christian Andersen , "The Little Mermaid."
For a demonic inversion of Andersen's sad story and that of other watery maidens, see the story of Lilith from the Jewish Apocrapha.
4. Sheridan Le Fanu, "Green Tea."
5. Oliver Onions , "The Beckoning Fair One."
6. Joyce Carol Oates , "Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly."