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, July 30, 2008

Ketchum's Hide and Seek proves the worst terrors lurk within

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So what scares horror writers? I imagine something like this: They draw back the curtain to provide the audience with a full look at their h...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Ketchum proves that there is life after King

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Like many other readers, I have a deep, abiding respect and appreciation for the work of Stephen King. For a long time (1974-86, or thereabo...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Pendragon: The holy grail of RPGs remains beyond my grasp

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Question: What is the secret of the Grail? Whom does it serve? Answer: Greg Stafford's Pendragon . My experience with role-playing game...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Quote of the day

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From J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit : As they sang the hobbit felt the love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic m...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Egil's Saga: Mail-clad storytelling from an age gone by

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Now my course is tough: Death, close sister of Odin's enemy, stands on the ness: with resolution and without remorse I will gladly await...
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Friday, July 18, 2008

Frank Mentzer--coming to a Con near me

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As a member of the Bostongamers.com Yahoo group, which caters to Boston-area roleplaying game enthusiasts, I receive a stream of regular mes...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft: A review

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I have seen the dark universe yawning Where the dark planets roll without aim-- Where they roll in their horror unheeded, Without knowledge...
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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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