While arguably best known for his works of Southern Gothic horror, McDowell was an accomplished stylist who wrote several series with marked differences in tone, character, and subject matter. McDowell died on Decemin Boston, Massachusetts from an AIDS-related illness. His final, unfinished novel Candles Burning was completed by novelist Tabitha King and published in 2006. One of his final projects, upon which he was working at the time of his death, was a sequel to Beetlejuice. After his diagnosis, McDowell taught screenwriting at Boston University and Tufts University while continuing to write commissioned screenplays. McDowell was diagnosed with AIDS in 1994. After his death, the collection was acquired by Chicago’s Northwestern University, where it went on display in 2013. His extensive and diverse collection, which reportedly filled over seventy-six boxes, included items such as death pins, photographs and plaques from infant caskets.
McDowell specialized in collecting death memorabilia. McDowell and Senelick remained together for thirty years until McDowell’s death. McDowell’s partner was theatre historian and director Laurence Senelick, whom he met in 1969 when McDowell was a cast member of the Senelick-directed play, Bartholomew Fair. McDowell lived in Medford, Massachusetts and maintained a residence in Hollywood with his sister Ann and the filmmaker Peter Lake. from Harvard College, and a Ph.D in English from Brandeis University in 1978, based on a dissertation entitled “American Attitudes Toward Death, 1825–1865”. McDowell was born in 1950 in Enterprise, Alabama, and graduated from T.R. His best-known work is the screenplay for the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice.
Michael McEachern McDowell (J– December 27, 1999) was an American novelist and screenwriter described by author Stephen King as “the finest writer of paperback originals in America today”.
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