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

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Elric of Melnibone--a review

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It’s a testament to the imaginative might of author Michael Moorcock that his most famous creation, Elric of Melnibone, has become a permane...
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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Are fast or slow zombies scarier?

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The recent remake of Dawn of the Dead (2004) surprised many fans of the horror genre—myself included—by tweaking one of its oldest conventi...
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Friday, February 20, 2009

Taking another Tolkien-basher to task

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Novelist Richard Morgan recently wrote a critical piece on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in which he argues that the book suffers ...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Cimmerian sightings: London calling

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"I have carefully gone over, in my mind, the most powerful men – that is, in my opinion – in all of the world’s literature and here is...
Sunday, February 15, 2009

Top 10 fantasy fiction battles: The Iliad

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7. The Iliad, Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald Book V—A Hero Strives with Gods Many fantasy fans avoid Homer’s ancient heroic epic T...
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Friday, February 13, 2009

The Grail? I've already got one

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Joseph of Arimathea used it to collect Christ's blood. King Arthur's knights spent decades questing for it, scouring Britain from en...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Cimmerian sightings: A line drawn in blood

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In anticipation of the release of the remake of Friday the 13th , which hits the theatres tomorrow (on Friday the 13th—imagine that!), the ...
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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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