My husband, Tony Williams, who has died aged 80, was a film and literature scholar whose varied interests ranged from Vietnam war movies and Hong Kong martial arts films to the work of Jack London.
His first book was The Italian Western: Opera of Violence (1975), co-authored with Laurence Staig. After moving to the US in the mid-1980s, to take up a position at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, he published many titles, including Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film (1996, updated 2014), The Cinema of George A Romero: Knight of the Living Dead (2003, second edition 2015) and The Gothic Peckinpah (2024). His final book, The Italian Western: Rounding the Circle, will be published later this year.
