Pen name Adobe James Role Writer Occupation Writer, educator Died April 11, 1990 | Education Pomona College Name James Cardwell | |
Born 17 January 1926Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA ( 1926-01-17 ) Books Mrs. Hudson? Mrs. Hudson!!: A Conceptual Narrative Treatment of an Original Musical | ||
James Moss Cardwell (17 January 1926 – 11 April 1990), who used the pen name Adobe James, was an American writer and educator.
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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. He also wrote short stories and articles for men's magazines.
Career
Cardwell was a president of California's Monterey Peninsula College, and a long-standing member of the Diogenes Club, a Sherlock Holmes appreciation society. His unproduced musical play "Mrs. Hudson? Mrs. Hudson!!", a Sherlockian pastiche, was published posthumously in 2000, with illustrations by Jean-Pierre Cagnat.
Cardwell was survived by his third wife, Julie.
Influences
Cardwell's editor, Michael Kean, has discussed 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 – which was twice adapted for television's Alfred Hitchcock Presents (in 1955 and 1985), and was also used as a plot in a number of horror comics. However, as Cardwell is not credited for these adaptations, it remains unclear whether these similarities are coincidental.