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, April 17, 2026

Don't Break My Heart Again, Whitesnake

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This is a great fucking song.  Let's get that out of the way first. If you only know Whitesnake from "Still of the Night" or ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Latest issue of Arcane Arts is out

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Issue no. 10 of Arcane Arts hit inboxes this AM. I've been nailing this every week, like clockwork on Wednesday morning, though as noted...
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Saturday, April 11, 2026

The great quest continues: Joseph Campbell's Romance of the Grail

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I’m probably not going to find the holy grail—the cup Joseph of Arimathea used to gather the blood of Christ, and later brought to Glastonbu...
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Friday, April 10, 2026

Darkside of Aquarius, Bruce Dickinson

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Intelligence has become fetishized. CEOs of major tech companies with a very high IQ… and zero sense, and zero empathy.  Sam Altman defendin...
Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Arcane Arts #9

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Imagine if there was a free, weekly, zero-spam newsletter that covered all the fun, weird, interesting, and quirky bits of popular culture y...
Sunday, April 5, 2026

Ten things I’ve learned after 1000 blog posts

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I said this was coming after The Super, Super-Secret History of Sword-and-Sorcery. And here it is. This isn’t a summarization of everything ...
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Friday, April 3, 2026

Defender, Manowar

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"More emphasis on 'ride' here, Ross? This morning while working out under heavy-ish iron I found myself able to recite every li...
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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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