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

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

More generative AI harm

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The result I was anticipating has occurred. A Federal California Judge today ruled in favor of AI giant Anthropic, stating that the company’...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

A little piece of Howard Days wends its way home: God's Blade

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One of the cool things you encounter attending Howard Days are many bits of Howard and Howard-adjacent ephemera fans bring to the silent auc...
Friday, June 20, 2025

"Powerslave," Iron Maiden

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Iron Maiden is so damned good and has so many damned good songs that I can't listen to them neutrally. I've lost track of the number...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

I've finally got it: Monster Tales: Vampires, Werewolves & Things

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Pumped for this delivery. When I was a kid I used to regularly check out Monster Tales: Vampires, Werewolves & Things  (1973, Rand McNal...
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Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, a review

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Lady Gaga would appreciate this romance.... I don’t read much romance. But when I do, I read The Romance of Tristan and Iseult . It’s an old...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Robert E. Howard Days and remembering my 2023 trip

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Robert E. Howard Days is here again . The annual gathering to celebrate one of the twin towers of modern fantasy at his home in Cross Plains...
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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Some further thoughts on generative AI art

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We’re getting increasingly embedded into machinery. The future is almost certainly cyborg, flesh and circuitry melded together. It is alread...
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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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