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

Friday, March 27, 2009

More Battle of Five Armies goodness

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While writing my recent post on J.R.R. Tolkien's Battle of Five Armies I spent some time googling for a few accompanying photos. In so ...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Howard and Hemingway

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Read enough Robert E. Howard and you start to see him everywhere, particularly in the works of his contemporaries. Case in point: I recentl...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

My top 10 fantasy fiction battles: Battle of Five Armies

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6. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien Battle of Five Armies “Dread has come upon you all! Alas! it has come more swiftly than I guessed. The Goblins...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: A new market for swords and sorcery emerges

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If swords and sorcery is to stage a comeback—and let’s face it, the genre is not only languishing these days, it’s barely got a pulse—there ...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Thinner: Vintage King gets new life on audio

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I put off reading Stephen King’s Thinner for the better part of two decades. The dust jacket description—lawyer runs down gypsy and is cur...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: How Dungeons and Dragons and Appendix N helped inspire a generation of readers

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From such sources, as well as just about any other imaginative writing or screenplay, you will be able to pluck kernels from which to grow t...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

My top 10 Dungeons and Dragons monsters

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All right, so I'm a bit late to the party on this one, but in joining with the semi-recent spate of bloggers around the Web listing thei...
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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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