Addams would enjoy the Presbyterian Cemetery on Mountain Avenue in Westfield as a child, where – according to author and Addams expert Ron MacCloskey – he would wonder what it was like to be dead.[5] In the cartoons, his ghoulish creations lived on Cemetery Ridge with a dreadful view.
A house on Elm Street and another on Dudley Avenue – into which police once caught him breaking and entering – are said to be the inspiration for the Addams Family mansion in his cartoons. College Hall, the oldest building on the current campus of the University of Pennsylvania, where Addams studied, was also an inspiration for the mansion.[6] One friend said of him: "His sense of humor was a little different from everybody else's." He was also artistically inclined, "drawing with a happy vengeance", according to a biographer.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Addams
Original Morticia from her grave (his first wife):
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/208438556/barbara-jean-hersey
Original model pack by Charles Addams: https://archive.org/details/adamsfamilymodelpack/page/n49/mode/2up
There was a book of his cartoons at my house when I was young (never really thought about who in my family bought it), and I loved it. Probably responsible for some of my personality today.
This one?
Hmm, I think there were more then one. That one might have been included, but there was this one for sure: