Career
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. His unproduced musical play Hudson?, a Sherlockian pastiche, was published posthumously in 2000, with illustrations by Jean-Pierre Cagnat.
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.
