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

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Evaluating Don Herron's hard look at Stephen King

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Essayist/raconteur Don Herron is best known ‘round these parts for his outstanding Robert E. Howard criticism, which includes essays and ed...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Devil You Know: A review

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Maybe if we cry together Maybe if we cry as one The tears that fall can kill the fire And keep everyone from Atom and evil --Heaven and Hell...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Devil You Know: I've got it in my greedy hands

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Today I did something rather out of the ordinary in my all too ordinary life--I bought a CD on its first day of release : The new Black Sabb...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

Slaughterhouse-Five: A review

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And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love he...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Of Wolf Larsen and embracing the Howardian hero

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“He led a lost cause, and he was not afraid of God’s thunderbolts,” Wolf Larsen was saying. “Hurled into hell, he was unbeaten. A third of ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Good news on The Hobbit front: "Sequel" idea nixed

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So if you haven't already heard the news, Empire Movie News is reporting that Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson have nixed the idea ...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Heroic Visions takes a rather dim view of Howard

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This past weekend I landed a major score at a local used bookstore, a haul that included no fewer than four works of swords and sorcery, a W...
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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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