The Silver Key

"Wonder had gone away, and he had forgotten that all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other." --H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

Friday, December 19, 2025

Stonehenge, Spinal Tap

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Fuck... 2025 has been brutal. Rob Reiner deserved a much longer life. Horrible, tragic. In honor of the man who brought us the finest rockum...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Why I believe The Snow Women is a great story (and you might not)

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First appearance of this fantastic story? Fantastic . It feels hyperbolic to describe any sword-and-sorcery story as divisive. So few read t...
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Friday, December 12, 2025

The Sentinel, Judas Priest

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If I were commanded by an extraterrestrial visitor to planet Earth, "Give me one song that best exemplifies this thing you call heavy m...
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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Create for the sake of creating, algorithm be damned; plus 3 cool things

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Some of the YouTube creators I follow have all voiced a similar lament in the past few weeks. Views are plunging. Old video types they used ...
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Thursday, December 4, 2025

The Merman’s Children by Poul Anderson: A review

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Anderson must have been pissed at the spelling of "Faery" Did magic exist, once upon a time? Did the creatures of Faerie roam the ...
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Friday, November 28, 2025

Of Blind Guardian and The Quest for Tanelorn

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The City of Rest... Tanelorn. Michael Moorcock’s stories are populated with characters ill-fitted to their world, outsiders in lands where b...
Monday, November 24, 2025

Blind Guardian on Wednesday

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Blind Guardian loves playing at the Worcester Palladium in the fall and once again I’m here for it, along with my buddy Dana. Typically Guar...
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Brian Murphy
Marketing professional by day; skald in the Hall of Fire by night; and member of the S.H.I.E.L.D.W.A.L.L. Author of Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery (2020, Pulp Hero Press). Essayist and reviewer for numerous web and print-based fantasy and sword-and-sorcery publications, including The Cimmerian, Black Gate, Tales from the Magician's Skull, Mythprint, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Dark Man, DMR Blog, Skelos, and SFFaudio.com. Two-time Robert E. Howard Foundation award winner: The Atlantean (Outstanding Achievement/Book for Flame and Crimson) and The Venarium (emerging scholar in REH studies).
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