James Stoddard

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-11-02

James Stoddard is an American fantasy author from Liberal, Kansas who lives in West Texas. His first short story, "The Perfect Day", appeared in Amazing Stories in 1985 under the name James Turpin. He then stepped away from writing for more than a decade to pursue music, earned a sound engineering degree, worked as a school-system business manager and later taught sound recording at South Plains College in Texas before turning to full-time writing. His first novel, The High House (Warner Aspect, 1998), won the Compton Crook Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. He has since written two sequels, a modern retelling of William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land, further novels, and short fiction published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Universe(s)

Books

• The High House (1998) · The Evenmere Chronicles Core Canon
• The False House (1999) · The Evenmere Chronicles Core Canon
• Evenmere (2015) · The Evenmere Chronicles Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 2 (1 won, 1 nomination)

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