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

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

A title reveal

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I revealed the title and an important progress update on the heavy metal memoir in this morning's edition of Arcane Arts: Dispatches Fro...
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Friday, July 31, 2026

Revolution Is My Name, Pantera

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Dimebag Darrell was one of those rare one-of-a-kind guitar players with a unique style instantly recognizable as soon as he sets pick to str...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

The Dragon Sickness

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(Warning; contains spoilers for David Drake's "The Barrow Troll") Wealth hoarding. Obsessively clutching your treasure until i...
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Friday, July 10, 2026

"Into the Fire," Dokken

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I've heard it referred to alternatively as hair metal, glam metal, sometimes by the less charitable, butt rock. Whatever.  I've come...
Monday, July 6, 2026

Gazing into The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune

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Can sword-and-sorcery be quiet, thoughtful … philosophical? Not typically … but Robert E. Howard was anything but typical. If you want to kn...
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Saturday, June 27, 2026

The Myth of Progress

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I am a big fan of modern medicine. I like my car, I need electricity, I even (mostly) enjoy the internet. I could do without my television …...
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Thursday, June 25, 2026

Missives from Highland Lake

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I'm up at the family cottage on Highland Lake this week, enjoying some sorely needed PTO. I did get out an issue of Arcane Arts, which y...
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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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