The Almost Complete Speculative Short Fiction of Jane Rice

✍ Scribed by Jane Rice

• Book ID: 115336307
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 7 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Jane Rice (April 30, 1913 – March 2, 2003) was an American science fiction and horror writer. Her fiction debut was with "The Dream" in the July 1940 issue of Unknown, edited by the legendary sf editor John W. Campbell. During the war she published 10 stories in Unknown.
Her stories in Unknown were well received. Her slyly sensual werewolf story "The Refugee" from the October 1943 issue was selected by Campbell for his best of anthology From Unknown Worlds (1946) and it was also anthologized in Rivals of Weird Tales (1990) and the Library of America's American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940s to Now (2009), edited by Peter Straub. "The Idol of the Flies" from the June 1942 issue has also been frequently anthologized; it concerns an evil boy named Pruitt who has been called "one of the most monstrous children in literature".

Contents:

The Willow Tree,
A Difficult Subject,
Great-Aunt Ella and the Stanley Steamer,
The Golden Bridle,
The Idol of the Flies,
The Loolies Are Here,
The Misfits,
The Rainbow Gold,
The Refugee,
The Saga of Lizzie Borden,
The Sixth Dog,
The White Pony,
The Sorcerer's Mate,
Magician's Dinner,
Pobby,
The Crest of the Wave,
The Crossroads,
The Dream,
The Elixir,
The Forbidden Trail,
The House,
The Last Straw,
The Mystery of the Lion Window.