{"id":3622,"date":"2014-12-02T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2014-12-02T14:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:03:21","slug":"rest-in-peace-rocky-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/rest-in-peace-rocky-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace, Rocky Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rockywoodauthor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Rocky-Wood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"253\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0Rocky Wood, president of the Horror Writers&#8217; Association, Stephen King expert, and Stoker-award winning author, passed away December 1 \u00a0at the age of 55, after complications related to ALS. While I didn&#8217;t ever meet him, I know from others that he was a dedicated, determined, and kind person, as well as a talented author and researcher. We reviewed two of his books: <em>Stephen King: A Literary Companion<\/em> (reviewed<a href=\"http:\/\/monsterlibrarian.com\/nonfiction.htm#Stephen_King:_A_Literary_Companion_by_Rocky_Wood\"> here<\/a>), which won the Stoker Award for nonfiction, and <em>Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Witching Times<\/em> (reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterlibrarian.com\/graphicnovel.htm#Witch_Hunts:_A_Graphic_History_of_the_Burning_Times\">here<\/a>), the Stoker Award-winning graphic novel he co-authored with Lisa Morton. Rocky also believed in promoting scholarship in the horror genre&#8211; he contacted us some time ago, offering to write a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/guest-review-by-rocky-wood-the-dark-tower-companion-a-guide-to-stephen-kings-epic-fantasy-by-bev-vincent\/\">detailed review<\/a> of Bev Vincent&#8217;s reference work <em>The Dark Tower Companion,\u00a0<\/em>which we published here on the blog.<\/p>\n<p>The Horror Writers Association has announced the establishment of a scholarship focused on nonfiction writing in the horror genre in his memory.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about him, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockywoodauthor.com\/\">his official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Having gone through a similar loss here this year, I have the deepest sympathies for his family.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0Rocky Wood, president of the Horror Writers&#8217; Association, Stephen King expert, and Stoker-award winning author, passed away December 1 \u00a0at the age of 55, after complications related to ALS. While I didn&#8217;t ever meet him, I know from others that he was a dedicated, determined, and kind person, as well as a talented author<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/rest-in-peace-rocky-wood\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[503,1423],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-obituary","tag-rocky-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}