Dust jacket by Allen Koszowski

Limited Edition Hardcover - $55.00
Fine in fine dj.

ISBN 0-9740589-8-X

Midnight House; limited to 500 copies

As many readers know, we lost of one our greats when Jane Rice passed away in early March. For the last two years, Ms. Rice had been working with editors Stefan Dziemianowicz and Jim Rockhill on the preparation of a volume that would collect all of her weird and macabre tales in one massive tome. While we are bitterly disappointed that Ms. Rice was unable to see the finished book, we believe it is one that she would have been well pleased with.

The Idol of the Flies is a massive retrospective of Jane Rice's sixty-year career in weird fiction. From her earliest stories for John Campbell's Unknown Worlds, through the 1950's tales written for Charm and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science-Fiction, to the recent novelette "The Sixth Dog", all of Ms. Rice's macabre fiction is collected in this book. Editors Stefan Dziemianowicz and Jim Rockhill have done a splendid job of tracking down stories from a wide variety of sources. Ms. Rice herself did revisions on several pieces to restore previously excised supernatural elements.

Rumor has long been rampant of "missing" Jane Rice stories written for Campell's Unknown Worlds. We're pleased to report that those stories have been found and while not restored exactly to their original form, they now represent the author's preferred version.

Professionally and personally, we shall miss Jane Rice and mourn her passing. We shall also treasure this wonderful literary legacy that she left for us all to enjoy.