L Wright + R G Sheehan - These Will Chill You

[allthingshorror]

These Will Chill You - ed. by Lee Wright and Richard G Sheehan (Bantam Feb 1967)



CONTENTS:

Somebody on the Phone - Cornell Woolrich
The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Copper Bowl - George Fielding Eliot
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe
The Calamnder Chest - Joseph Payne Brennan
The Question - Stanley Ellin
Couching at the Dooor - D K Broster
The Idol of the Flies - Jane Rice
The Small World of Lewis Stillman - W F Nolan
The Haunted Woodshed - Harold R Daniels
The Other Celia - Theodore Sturgeon
Philco Baby - Irvin Faust

Ms. Lee Wright (once editor of the mystery dept. of Random House) and Richard Sheehan (nothing on him apart from he used to be a story editor for 20th Cent. Fox and he used to translate captured Japanese documents and took part in interrogations during WW2) bring a rather pleasant and welcome anthology. Sure, it has the stories you've read time and time again - but it really does have the feel of an early Pan volume - disregarding of course, the Eliot and Nolan contribution...

Does anyone know anything on Jane Rice? Good little story, that one. Originally featured in a collection/ magazine (?) called Unknown Worlds (1942).

[dem bones]

Jan 24, 2009 9:36:06 GMT @allthingshorror said:

Does anyone know anything on Jane Rice? Good little story, that one. Originally featured in a collection/ magazine (?) called Unknown Worlds (1942).

She had ten stories in Unknown Worlds from 1940-43, making her something of a regular as there were only 39 issues in all. After the much-anthologised The Idol Of The Flies - that little bastard Pruitt is among my favourite abominable infants in horror fiction - she's maybe best known for werewolf yarn The Refugee (October 1943). I'm not sure what happened to her when Unknown went under - I think she was probably more active in fantasy than all out macabre stuff - but Jane Rice was still around in the 'nineties when Stephen Jones used her The Sixth Sense in Years Best New Horror 7.

There's at least one more Wright/ Sheehan anthology, very similar in style: Wake Up Screaming (Bantam, 1967). We got good mileage out of it on old board so i'll likely copy it across later on.

[allthingshorror]

Talking to Steve today - he said that Rice died a few years ago. After a little bit more digging - found this:

www.horror-mall.com/THE-IDOL-OF-THE-FLIES-AND-OTHER-STORIES-by-Jane-Rice-p-16275.html

Might have to get a copy when I get some cash together.

[Craig Herbertson]

Interesting to see Bob Geldof posing for the cover in drag