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, May 28, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Heavy metal and fantasy

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Like a wizard and his staff, or a dragon and its gleaming horde, heavy metal/hard rock music and fantasy literature are an inseparable pair...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Matheson’s I Am Legend falls short of classic status

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Warning—stop here if you don't want to be spoiled. So I just finished re-reading (actually, listening to the audio version of) Richard ...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Twenty five years on, The (original) Terminator remains unstoppable

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Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remor...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Tears of the Dragon: How Bruce Dickinson helped rescue heavy metal

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The year was 1994. Heavy metal was arguably at its nadir. Iron Maiden and Judas Priest were without their lead singers, Metallica had sold o...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Still funny after all these years, and better than ever on audio

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Humor is arguably the most difficult genre of writing to pull off. Hampered by the limitations of the print medium, humor writers must ply t...
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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: To read, or to re-read

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I’ve never understood the claim that, once read, a book is bereft of value. I have seen this absurd belief posited on several occasions aro...
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Monday, May 4, 2009

Top 10 fantasy fiction battles: The Battle of Unnumbered Tears

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4. The Children of Hurin , J.R.R. Tolkien Nirnaeth Arnoediad Great was the triumph of Morgoth, and his design was accomplished in a manner 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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