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, 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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Sunday, November 23, 2025

The world is shit; what do we do?

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If we are to take everything we read at face value, with the deadly seriousness the news makers tell us we should, we should never get out o...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Some further thoughts on Carl Jung

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I spent most of my life walking around in a fog, consuming music, books, games, social media, whatever. Never turning inward; never attempti...
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Thursday, November 13, 2025

I am too busy to blog right now but here's three things to know...

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I’m a busy dude. I imagine most men and women with adult commitments are too, so no excuses. But this past 10 days has seen me fly to Texas ...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Stephen King's Cujo, a review

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I believe that, whenever he pens his last novel and his complete literary corpus can be properly appraised, Stephen King will go down as mor...
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Sunday, November 2, 2025

Opening up to the Weird

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Despite my lifelong interest in all things fantastic I’ve always been extraordinarily skeptical of the supernatural. I scoff at ghost storie...
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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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