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, October 17, 2007

Celebrating Halloween: My top 10 scariest films

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In honor of Halloween, my favorite holiday of the year, I'm offering my top 10 scariest movies of all time. These aren't necessarily...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Book review: All hail The Once and Future King

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There's only a handful of books that I've deemed worthy of a five-star rating, and this is one of them. Maybe it just means that I h...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

This pulp is high art: Why Pulp Fiction rules

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Part 3 of a 10-part series in which I examine my favorite films, and the reasons why I love them so. Pulp Fiction is a near-perfect film. I...
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Friday, September 28, 2007

Why Tolkien is the man

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"Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and...
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Thursday, September 27, 2007

I found the holy grail--and it is Excalibur

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Part 2 of a 10-part series in which I examine my favorite films, and the reasons why I love them so. Excalibur is, by most standards, an od...
Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Behind the DM screen again, part 2

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Part 2 of a 2-part series about my experience dungeon mastering a game of Dungeons & Dragons after a long, long absence. As I stated in ...
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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Behind the DM screen again

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Part 1 of a 2-part series about my experience dungeon mastering a game of Dungeons & Dragons after a long, long absence. About a month a...
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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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