death_place death_date birth_date article_title name
greensboro , north carolina , usa 02 march 2003 30 april 1913 jane rice
 jane dixon rice
jane rice

jane dixon rice -lrb- april 30 , 1913 -- march 2 , 2003 -rrb- was an american science fiction and horror writer .
her science fiction debut was with `` the dream '' in the july 1940 issue of `` unknown '' , edited by the legendary sf editor john w. campbell .
she published a number of other stories in `` unknown '' .
her werewolf story `` the refugee '' from the october 1943 issue was selected by campbell for his best of anthology `` from unknown worlds '' -lrb- 1946 -rrb- and it was also anthologized in `` rivals of weird tales '' -lrb- 1990 -rrb- and the library of america 's `` american fantastic tales : terror and the uncanny from the 1940s to now '' -lrb- 2009 -rrb- , edited by peter straub .
`` the idol of the flies '' from the june 1942 issue was also frequently anthologized .
it concerns an evil boy named pruitt who has been called `` one of the most monstrous children in literature '' .
rice collaborated with ruth allison on the story `` the loolies are here '' under the name allison rice for the anthology `` orbit 1 '' -lrb- 1966 -rrb- , edited by damon knight .
she also published short fiction in a number of science fiction and non-genre magazines , including `` the magazine of fantasy & science fiction '' -lrb- under the name mary austin -rrb- , `` charm '' , `` alfred hitchcock 's mystery magazine '' , `` cosmopolitan '' , and `` ladies ' home journal '' .
despite this history of publication , rice 's first book was not published until 1995 when necronomicon press published her horror novelette `` the sixth dog '' as a chapbook .
she did not live to see the publication of her second book , a collection of her short fiction called `` the idol of the flies and other stories '' , published by midnight house in 2003 as a limited edition of 500 copies .
