James Moss Cardwell
James Moss Cardwell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 January 1926 Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA |
| Died | 11 April 1990 (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]
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 fr.[10][11]
Cardwell was survived by his third wife, Julie.[1][12]
Selected bibliography
Short Stories
As Adobe James:[6]
- The Ohio Love Sculpture (1963)
- I'll Love You - Always (1964)
- The Revenge (1964)
- Puppetmaster (1965)
- The Road to Mictlantecutli (1965)
- Tomorrow and ... Tomorrow (1967)
- An Apparition at Noon (1968)
- The Spelling Bee (1989)
According to one source Cardwell used another pseudonym, James McArdwell, to write The Green Umbilical Cord (1968).[13]
Play
- "Mrs. Hudson? ... Mrs. Hudson!!" (2000) (published posthumously as James Moss Cardwell)
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
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ "United States Social Security Death Index". Family Search. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ^ a b "James M. Cardwell". The Baker Street Journal. 39–40. Fordham University Press: 174. 1989.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ "James, Adobe; pseudonym of James Moss Cardwell". The FictionMags Index. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
- ^ Taylor, Mary S. (24 January 2014). "Cardwell". CAGenWeb Monterey County Genealogy. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ^ Nix, Kelly. "Sherlock Holmes Club endures for decades". The Carmel Pine Cone. Archived from the original on 28 January 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ^ "Mrs Hudson? Mrs Hudson!". The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ^ Blau, Peter E. (January 2001). "Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press" (PDF). Sherlocktron. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ^ "Johnny Mains Pops In For a Chat". The Ginger Nuts of Horror. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
- ^ "James McArdwell - Summary Bibliography". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ^ Blas, Samuel (11 January 1947). "Revenge". UNZ. Collier's Weekly. pp. 14, 64. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ "Revenge". Scary For Kids. 13 February 2015. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ Ho, Oliver (14 January 2010). "Borderland Speakeasy: Echoes of Vengeance". Pop Matters. Archived from the original on 29 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.