Rocky Wood Rocky Wood i(A118476 works by)
Born: Established: 19 Oct 1959 Wellington, Wellington (Region), North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region, ; Died: Ceased: 1 Dec 2014 Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Male
Heritage: New Zealander
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BiographyHistory

Melbourne-based freelance writer, Rocky Wood has published non-fiction in Australia and overseas. He is recognised as a leading expert on the work of American writer Stephen King. In 2012, Wood became the first Australian to win a Bram Stoker Award, offered by the Horror Writers Association. Wood won for 'superior achievement in non-fiction' for his book Stephen King: A Literary Companion.

Wood's first graphic novel, Horrors! Great Stories of Fear and their Creators, illustrated by American artist Glenn Chadbourne, was published in 2010. It was followed by a second graphic novel, Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times in 2012. (This non-fiction work, which covers witch hunts in Europe and New England (including Salem), is not indexed on AustLit.)

Wood died in late 2014, of complications from motor neurone disease.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Horrors : Great Stories of Fear and their Creators Jefferson : McFarland and Company , 2010 Z1782962 2010 single work graphic novel horror 'The night modern horror was born was notoriously dark and stormy, as were the lives of those who wrote the most fearsome tales in literature, for those so gifted were also cursed. Horrors, a graphic novel, reveals in gruesome detail Mary Wollstonecraft, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and other masters of the genre haunted by their creations.' (Trove record)
2010 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Best Illustrated Book / Graphic Novel
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