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

Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Humor. Show all posts

Saturday, January 31, 2026

Against the Demon World by Dave Ritzlin, a review

( Note: I was given an advance reading copy of this book, which comes out next week.) It was a life of little but feeding, fighting, and for...

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

A heavy metal rant: Stop the Di’Anno v. Dickinson, Ozzy v. Dio forever wars. Forever.

"Never, this is the end" ... of tired internet arguments. So sayeth Dio. Every so often I need to let out a good rant. It gets my ...

Sunday, November 23, 2025

The world is shit; what do we do?

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...

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Top 5 horror movie babes of the 70s and 80s

I'm howling... I was born in 1973 and by the mid-80s developed a taste for horror films. It was a time when werewolves and slashers were...

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Sword-and-sorcery pinball machines are fucking cool

That’s the post. I love the pairing of sword-and-sorcery aesthetic with machines of glass and steel. My idle daydream is to acquire a couple...

Saturday, May 17, 2025

We are called to live: A night with Wildside in Dracut MA

Take a ride on the Wildside. Many/most 50+ year-old men were probably at home watching the Celtics playoff game last night. I was called ba...

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Death Dealer 3: Semi-enjoyable (?) train-wreck

I’m back at it again, with a long-awaited review of Death Dealer 3: Tooth and Claw . Check out my reviews of book 1 and book 2 of this fou...

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Organizing my bookshelves: How I do it (YMMV—no hate)

Tor Conan, ERB, CAS, Moorcock... and more. It’s time to weigh in on a topic so contentious, so divided, so fraught with the potential for in...

Thursday, December 7, 2023

The hellscape of KISS avatars and AI art

KISS (holograms) love you! KISS just wrapped up a 50-year career in typical KISS fashion. Selling product. Not content to leave the stage wi...

Sunday, November 6, 2022

An observation about heavy metal and sword-and-sorcery

Blue Cheer and Deep Purple = Lord Dunsany and James Branch Cabell Black Sabbath = Robert E. Howard Judas Priest and Iron Maiden = Fritz Leib...

Thursday, August 11, 2022

What is best in life?

Look no further.

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Latest Rogues in the House podcast is up: Deathstalker 2, and Flame and Crimson too

The Ultimate Sword-and-Sorcery podcast The latest episode of the Rogues in the House podcast is now available for your listening enjoyment. ...

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Rogues in the House: Deathstalker 2!

You won't find this level of beefcake ... Any fans of this fun podcast, the only program wholly dedicated to sword-and-sorcery? I’m one ...

Friday, September 28, 2012

The Zombie Survival Guide, a review

The next time a Class 2 zombie outbreak occurs in my neighborhood, I’ll be well-prepared to deal with the shambling corpses of hungry un...

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Brak vs. the Sorceress: A really bad read

Ever the optimist, I managed to find a silver lining in the extreme suckiness of John Jakes’ 1977 novel Brak vs. the Sorceress , though ...

Monday, March 19, 2012

25 years of Evil Dead 2? Groovy.

Wow, has it really been 25 years since Evil Dead 2 came out? Guess it's time to break out the VCR (yes, I still own one. And lots of V...

Monday, July 11, 2011

The day I went a-viking

How many people can say they sailed in a viking ship of their own making? So what if the mast was made of PVC pipe, and the planking and...

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Me want

Here's some ultimate nerdity that I would nevertheless gladly wear (look closely/zoom in on thumbnails below): http://www.threadless.com...

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Lansdale and Keene: Two tastes that taste great together

Over the last couple weeks I’ve managed to plow through two of Joe Lansdale’s Hap and Leonard series of novels and Brian Keene’s City of the...

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About Me

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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