01201cam a2200313 4500 306334840 TxAuBib 20141205120000.0 111007s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011031668 9780374373665 $17.99 0374373663 $17.99 (OCoLC)756767595 DLC DLC DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib Fama, Elizabeth. Monstrous Beauty / Elizabeth Fama. 1st ed. New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012. 295 p. ; 22 cm. In alternating chapters, tells of the mermaid Syrenka's love for Ezra in 1872 that leads to a series of horrific murders, and present-day Hester's encounter with a ghost that reveals her connection to the murders and to Syrenka. 20130617. Mermaids and mermen Fiction. Ghosts stories. Homicide Fiction. Supernatural Fiction. Massachusetts Fiction. Massachusetts History 19th century Fiction. TXMAR