![]() ![]() ![]() The News in Verse: Dreadful Crimes: A Set of Six Nineteenth-century Broadside Ballads of Appalling Murders and Other Wretched Crimes. (Ed), Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology: The World of Paranormal Phenomena. ![]() (Ed), Encyclopedia of Occultism and Psychical Research. Seascape: A Pattern of Sounds for Reading Aloud. The History of the Horn: A Bibliographical Essay. The Broadside Ballad: A Study in Origins and Meaning. In collaboration with Albert Power, Shepard publicized and organized the Bram Stoker Society collecting, cataloging, and archiving numerous writings about both Stoker and the mythical Vampire, which the novelist used as the basis for the title character and antagonist ' Count Dracula' in his novel. In addition, Leslie Shepard was cited as an expert on the writings of Bram Stoker, Irish author of the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. Sheppard also curated and either published or archived hundreds of documents and audio recordings including Irish ballad sheets and original examples of street literature, a subject on which he was considered an authority. Shepard was instrumental in documenting the work of the Alfred Wolfsohn Voice Research Centre and collaborated with Paul Newham to formulate an extended vocal technique based on the analysis of speaking and singing voices from diverse cultures and oral traditions. Leslie Shepard (21 June 1917 – 20 August 2004) was a British author, archivist, and curator who wrote books on a range of subjects including street literature, early film, and the paranormal. ![]()
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