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Elegant Nightmares: The English Ghost Story From Le Fanu To Blackwood, Ohio University Press, 1978. examines the works of several recognized masters of the ghostly tale, including
E. F. Benson,
H. Russell Wakefield,
Oliver Onions, and
Walter de la Mare; separate chapters are devoted to full, in-depth studies of
Sheridan Le Fanu,
M. R. James, and
Algernon Blackwood. •
Lost Souls: A Collection of English Ghost Stories, Ohio University Press, 1983. is a collection of English ghost stories with stories from practitioners of
supernatural fiction, such as
L.P. Hartley,
Arthur Machen,
Robert Aickman, and
Ramsey Campbell. •
The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, Viking, 1986. (editor); Reprinted in 1989 by Random House Value Publishing, contains hundreds of entries and literary essays are provided on a variety of subjects, topics and writers, contributed by such genre luminaries as
Ramsey Campbell,
Kim Newman,
T. E. D. Klein,
John Crowley,
Colin Wilson,
Thomas M. Disch,
Ron Goulart,
Whitley Strieber,
Jacques Barzun and many others. It was immediately recognized as one of the definitive reference works on the subject. •
Words on Music, Ohio University Press, 1990. a collection of essays on music chosen for their literary quality and appeal to a large audience, including
George Bernard Shaw on
Beethoven,
George Eliot on
Richard Wagner,
G. K. Chesterton on
Gilbert and Sullivan, and
Jacques Barzun on opera. •
New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music, Yale University Press, 1999. analyzes the influence of American literature, music, and
mythology on European music. It covers the impact of spirituals, jazz, Broadway, Hollywood, American landscape, and authors such as
Poe and
Whitman. • ''Hitchcock's Music'', Yale University Press, 2006. discusses the importance of music in Hitchcock's films, detailing his collaborations with composers such as
Franz Waxman,
Bernard Herrmann and
John Williams, and singers such as
Marlene Dietrich and
Doris Day. It was cited by
The Observer as best film book of the year and won the "2007 ASCAP Deems Taylor Award". •
New Orleans Remix, University Press of Mississippi, 2017, examines a vibrant musical renaissance that has been rocking the Big Easy since the early 1990s and shows how the city has held fiercely to the old even as it invents the new, a secret of its dynamic success. Based on dozens of interview and archives, the book shines the light on superb artists little known to the general public — Aurora Nealand, Shamarr Allen, Tom McDermott, Kermit Ruffins — as well as artists who have broken into the national spotlight such as the Rebirth Brass Band and Jon Batiste. Covering genres ranging from opera and jazz to brass band and funk, it was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Association of Recorded Sound Collections. Sullivan's 2013 script for "New York Philharmonic's Hitchcock!", a presentation of Hitchcock's film music at
Lincoln Center, was narrated by
Alec Baldwin and
Sam Waterston. ==References==