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This is a list of The Little Mermaid adaptations. It is restricted to direct adaptations of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Little Mermaid". Print Classics Illustrated Junior (1950s), an American comic book series, published a print version in issue #525. Angel's Hill (Angel no Oka, 1960), a manga by Osamu Tezuka. My Love, My Love: Or The Peasant Girl (1985), a novel by Rosa Guy, is based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale and inspired the musical Once on This Island, set in the French Antilles. It follows an orphaned peasant girl who falls in love with a wealthy young man. Sword of Destiny (1992) by Andrzej Sapkowski includes a short story "A Little Sacrifice" loosely based on Andersen's tale. Princess Mermaid (2002), a print adaptation by Japanese artist Junko Mizuno as the third and final part of her "fractured fairy tales". Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale (2001), a novel by Carolyn Turgeon, focuses on the mermaid, Lenia, and the human princess, Margrete, as they both fall for the same prince and seek to marry him. The Mermaid's Madness (2010), a book adaptation by Jim C. Hines, in which the mermaid, Lirea, is on a quest of revenge on the human prince who denied her advances, having been driven insane due to a side effect of her transformation. The Little Android (2014), a short story adaptation by Marissa Meyer as part of The Lunar Chronicles series and appearing in the collection Stars Above. The main character is reinterpreted as an android named Mech6.0. The Mer Chronicles by Tobie Easton (2016-2019), a young adult novel series focusing on a distant relative of the Little Mermaid in modern times and her own romance with a human. The Little Mermaid (2017), a graphic novel adaptation by Metaphrog. The Mermaid's Daughter (2017), a novel by Ann Claycomb, which centers on Kathleen Conarn, an Irish-born Bostonian opera student and descendant of the little mermaid. The plot is told from Kathleen's, her father Robin's, and her girlfriend Harry Evans' switching points of view. Kathleen sings to cope with the pain she has been experiencing in her mouth and feet since her sixteenth birthday. In addition, the majority of Kathleen's matrilineal forbears-including her mother and great-grandmother-drowned themselves in the ocean, while her grandmother sliced her wrists in the bathtub. Hoping to avoid the same fate as her ancestors, Kathleen travels with Harry to her birthplace and learn of her family history. In Ireland, the couple discover that Hans Christian Andersen wrote The Little Mermaid as a fictional account of Kathleen's mermaid ancestor Fand and that her prince was a cruel man who wanted to make her his concubine and was abusive towards his family. Kathleen also learns that Fand cursed her descendants to experience the same pain she felt when she gave her tongue to the sea witches to become human and had to practice walking on two legs; the family curse had also been driving Fand's descendants to drown themselves in the ocean, which had been calling them home. To break the spell, a descendant of Fand's must become a mermaid, which can only be achieved by killing her true love with Fand's knife and spilling their blood on her legs. To help Kathleen lift the curse, Robin and Harry write their own operatic adaption of The Little Mermaid, changing the fairy tale's ending to have the protagonist (played by Kathleen) kill the prince and his wife and turn back into a mermaid. In the scene where Kathleen must stab her co-star, she uses Fand's knife instead of a prop. Kathleen gets so deep into character that instead of blood, it is the magic of the theatre that turns her into a mermaid. With the curse lifted, Kathleen swims back to Ireland and the sea witches annually send Harry and Robin dreams of her to assure them that she is happy and free. To Kill a Kingdom (2018) by Alexandra Christo, a young adult novel in which a siren princess Lira is sent to kill a siren-hunting prince named Elian but ends up falling in love with him. Together, they defeat Lira's mother, the wicked sea queen. Sea Witch (2018) and Sea Witch Rising (2019), by Sarah Henning, are a YA novel duology focused on the character of the sea witch, beginning with her life as a human girl in 19th-century Denmark. She sets out to help a mermaid win a prince’s heart, but is betrayed and transformed into the sea witch of legend. “When Water Sang Fire” (2017), by Leigh Bardugo, is a short story set in the Grishaverse and published in the collection The Language of Thorns. It tells an origin story for the sea witch, Ulla, as an ostracized young mermaid, and recounts how the underwater sildroher race lost their magic. Skin of the Sea (2021), a young adult novel by Natasha Bowen that mixes the tale with West African religious traditions. Kiss of the Selkie (2021), a young adult novel by Tessonja Odette, part of the Entangled with Fae series, retells the story with a runaway selkie princess named Maisie as the lead. She saves a man from drowning, only to learn that he was sentenced to die by the Unseelie Queen of the Sea. Maisie is sent undercover at a bridal competition to assassinate him, but feels conflicted as she gets to know him. The Salt Grows Heavy (2023) by Cassandra Khaw is a horror novella in which, after the destruction of her kingdom and death of her cruel husband, the little mermaid joins a mysterious plague doctor to investigate a cult. Film Hans Christian Andersen (1952) features a ballet segment adaptation within the film. Fantasia 3 (1966), a Spanish anthology film, opens with the adaptation segment "Coralina: La Doncella del Mar" starring Dyanik Zurakowska. In this adaptation of the story the mermaid doesn't give up her voice in exchange to become human. The Daydreamer (1966), a Rankin/Bass film that combines live-action and stop-motion, features a stop-motion segment adaptation in the film. The Little Mermaid (Russian: Русалочка) (1968), a 29-minute Soviet Union animated film by film studio Soyuzmultfilm and directed by Ivan Aksenchuk. Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid (Anderusen Dowa Ningyo Hime) (1975), an anime feature film directed by Tomoharu Katsumata. Rusalochka (Русалочка) (1976), a live-action Russian film that was a joint production by the USSR and Bulgaria; directed by Vladimir Bychkov and starring Vyctoriya Novikova as the mermaid. Malá mořská víla (1976), a live-action Czechoslovak film directed by Karel Kachyňa and starring Miroslava Šafránková as the Little Mermaid, Radovan Lukavský as the King of the Seas, Petr Svojtka as the Prince, Milena Dvorská as the Sea Witch and Miroslava's sister, Libuše Šafránková, as the Princess. It features a score by Zdeněk Liška. Omitting Andersen's ending, the film ends with the Little Mermaid's death as she cannot bring herself to kill the Prince. Interestingly, the film eschews the traditional portrayal of merpeople with fish tails and presents them as water spirits. Splash (1984), it is one of the first films pro.... Discover the Ann Claycomb popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Ann Claycomb books.