Jack Cady
Jack Cady (March 20, 1932[1] – January 14, 2004[1]) was an American author, born in Kentucky. He is known mostly as an award winning writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He won the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award.[2]
Cady was a conscientious objector during the Korean War, but served in the U.S. Coast Guard in Maine. He later had several jobs, including truck driver, auctioneer, landscaper and finally university instructor. He first taught creative writing at the University of Washington from 1968 until 1973, and he then had a number of brief teaching stints at colleges in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Alaska from 1973 to 1978. During 1985 he began teaching writing at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and he retired from that job in 1998. Cady married fellow writer Carol Orlock in 1977, and they remained married until his death. Cady's collected literary papers were donated to the Mortvedt Library at Pacific Lutheran University during the spring of 2006.
Cady is perhaps known best for the Nebula-winning short story "The Night We Buried Road Dog" (1993). Stories of his were included in the Best American Short Stories anthologies of 1971 and 1972.
His dystopian novel McDowell's Ghost concerns a modern-day Southerner who keeps seeing the ghost of an ancestor killed during the Civil War; the spirit helps McDowell obtain justice for a female friend who was raped.
Another of Cady's books was The American Writer: Shaping a Nation's Mind, a survey of American literature.
Bibliography
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Novels
- The Well (1981)
- Singleton (1981)
- The Jonah Watch (1982)
- Mc Dowell's Ghost (1982)
- The Man Who Could Make Things Vanish (1983)
- Inagehi (1993)
- Street (1994)
- The Off Season (1995)
- The Hauntings of Hood Canal (2001)
- Rules of '48 (2009)
- — (2014) [1981]. The well. Reprint. Introduction by Tom Piccirilli. Valancourt Books.
Under the pseudonym Pat Franklin:
- "Dark Dreaming" (1991)
- "Embrace of the Wolf" (1993)
Short fiction
- Collections
- The Burning and Other Stories (1972)
- Tattoo (1978)
- The Sons of Noah (1992) (World Fantasy Award winner)[3]
- The Night We Buried Road Dog (1998)
- Ghostland (2001; e-publication)
- Ghosts of Yesterday (2003)
- Stories[4]
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jeremiah | 2000 | Cady, Jack (September 2000). "Jeremiah". F&SF. 99 (3): 141–160. | Novelette | |
The night we buried Road Dog | 1993 | F&SF (Jan 1993) | Reprinted in the Feb 2009 issue, along with an introduction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. |
Non-fiction
- The American Writer (1999)
See also
- List of horror fiction authors
- Prime Evil (anthology)
References
- ^ a b "Social Security Death Index". Retrieved June 17, 2010.
- ^ Obituaries in the News; From: AP Online Date: January 17, 2004.
- ^ World Fantasy Convention. "Award Winners and Nominees". Archived from the original on December 1, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2011.
- ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
External links
- Obit from SFWA
- Jack Cady at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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- Worse Things Waiting by Manly Wade Wellman (1975)
- The Enquiries of Doctor Eszterhazy by Avram Davidson (1976)
- Frights by Kirby McCauley (1977)
- Murgunstrumm and Others by Hugh B. Cave (1978)
- Shadows by Charles L. Grant (1979)
- Amazons! by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (1980)
- Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley (1981)
- The Dark Country by Terri Windling and Mark Alan Arnold (1982)
- Nightmare Seasons by Charles L. Grant (1983)
- High Spirits by Robertson Davies (1984)
- Books of Blood, Vols. I-III by Clive Barker (1985)
- Imaginary Lands by Robin McKinley (1986)
- Tales of the Quintana Roo by James Tiptree Jr. (1987)
- The Jaguar Hunter by Lucius Shepard (1988)
- Angry Candy by Harlan Ellison / Storeys from the Old Hotel by Gene Wolfe (1989, tie)
- Richard Matheson: Collected Stories by Richard Matheson (1990)
- The Start of the End of It All and Other Stories by Carol Emshwiller (1991)
- The Ends of the Earth by Lucius Shepard (1992)
- The Sons of Noah & Other Stories by Jack Cady (1993)
- Alone with the Horrors by Ramsey Campbell (1994)
- The Calvin Coolidge Home for Dead Comedians and A Conflagration Artist by Bradley Denton (1995)
- The Grass Princess by Gwyneth Jones (1996)
- The Wall of the Sky, the Wall of the Eye by Jonathan Lethem (1997)
- The Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton (1998)
- Black Glass by Karen Joy Fowler (1999)
- Moonlight and Vines by Charles de Lint / Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson (2000, tie)
- Beluthahatchie and Other Stories by Andy Duncan (2001)
- Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson (2002)
- The Fantasy Writer's Assistant and Other Stories by Jeffrey Ford (2003)
- Bibliomancy by Elizabeth Hand (2004)
- Black Juice by Margo Lanagan (2005)
- The Keyhole Opera by Bruce Holland Rogers (2006)
- Map of Dreams by M. Rickert (2007)
- Tiny Deaths by Robert Shearman (2008)
- The Drowned Life by Jeffrey Ford (2009)
- There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Lyudmila Petrushevskaya / The Best of Gene Wolfe by Gene Wolfe (2010, tie)
- What I Didn't See and Other Stories by Karen Joy Fowler (2011)
- The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers (2012)
- Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane (2013)
- The Ape's Wife and Other Stories by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2014)
- The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings by Angela Slatter / Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall (2015, tie)
- Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney (2016)
- A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford (2017)
- The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen (2018)
- The Tangled Lands by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell (2019)
- Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian Evenson (2020)
- Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (2021)
- Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik (2022)