James Moss Cardwell

This article is about the American writer. For other people with the same name, see James Cardwell (disambiguation).
James Moss Cardwell
Born (1926-01-17)17 January 1926
Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States
Died 11 April 1990(1990-04-11) (aged 64)
Pensacola, Florida, USA
Pen name Adobe James
Occupation Writer, educator
Alma mater Pomona College[1]

James Moss Cardwell (17 January 1926 – 11 April 1990),[1][2][3] who used the pen name Adobe James,[4] was an American writer and educator.[5]

He is best known for his horror stories, such as The Ohio Love Sculpture and The Road to Mictlantecutli, which appeared in anthologies edited by Alfred Hitchcock, Herbert van Thal, and others.[6] He also wrote short stories and articles for men's magazines.[7]

Career

Cardwell was a president of California's Monterey Peninsula College,[8] and a long-standing member of the Diogenes Club,[3] a Sherlock Holmes appreciation society.[9] His unproduced musical play "Mrs. Hudson? Mrs. Hudson!!", a Sherlockian pastiche, was published posthumously in 2000, with illustrations by Jean-Pierre Cagnat.[10][11]

Cardwell was survived by his third wife, Julie.[1][12]

Selected bibliography

Short stories

As Adobe James:[6]

According to one source Cardwell used another pseudonym, James McArdwell, to write The Green Umbilical Cord (1968).[13]

Play

Influences

Cardwell's editor Michael Kean has noted similarities between Cardwell's 1967 story "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" and Michael Winner's 1974 film Death Wish. Cardwell's 1964 story "The Revenge" closely resembles a 1947 story, "Revenge" – attributed to an otherwise unknown writer, Samuel Blas[14] – which was twice adapted for television's Alfred Hitchcock Presents (in 1955 and 1985),[1] and was also used as a plot in a number of horror comics.[15][16] However, as Cardwell is not credited for these adaptations, it remains unclear whether these similarities are coincidental.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Cardwell, James Moss (2000). Kean, Michael H., ed. Mrs. Hudson? ... Mrs. Hudson!! : a conceptual narrative treatment of an original musical. Shelburne, Ontario: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. ISBN 1552462072.
  2. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index". Family Search. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 "James M. Cardwell". The Baker Street Journal. Fordham University Press. 39–40: 174. 1989.
  4. ↑ Ashley, Mike; Contento, William G. (1995). The Supernatural Index: a listing of fantasy, supernatural, occult, weird, and horror anthologies. Greenwood Press. p. 317. ISBN 0313240302.
  5. ↑ Pronzini, Bill; Malzberg, Barry N.; Greenberg, Martin H., eds. (2010). Masters of horror and the supernatural: the great tales. New York: Bristol Park Books. p. 384. ISBN 0884864731.
  6. 1 2 "Adobe James – Summary Bibliography". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "James, Adobe; pseudonym of James Moss Cardwell". The FictionMags Index. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  8. ↑ Taylor, Mary S. (24 January 2014). "Cardwell". CAGenWeb Monterey County Genealogy. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  9. ↑ Nix, Kelly. "Sherlock Holmes Club endures for decades". The Carmel Pine Cone. Archived from the original on 28 January 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  10. ↑ "Mrs Hudson? Mrs Hudson!". The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  11. ↑ Blau, Peter E. (January 2001). "Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press" (PDF). Sherlocktron. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  12. ↑ "Johnny Mains Pops In For a Chat". The Ginger Nuts of Horror. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
  13. ↑ "James McArdwell – Summary Bibliography". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
  14. ↑ Blas, Samuel (11 January 1947). "Revenge". UNZ. Collier's Weekly. pp. 14, 64. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  15. ↑ "Revenge". Scary For Kids. 13 February 2015. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  16. ↑ Ho, Oliver (14 January 2010). "Borderland Speakeasy: Echoes of Vengeance". Pop Matters. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
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