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

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

A Prayer for Owen Meany—A review

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While my reading tastes are heavily weighted toward fantasy, horror, history, and military non-fiction, one cannot subsist on a diet of magi...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

A Red Dawn retrospective

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When I was a kid I wanted to be a Wolverine and kill Russians. That’s what happens when you watch Red Dawn about 45 times in a year, as I d...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Good vs. bad art

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All this talk around the web about the new Solomon Kane film has me thinking about bad vs. good art. Now, I have no idea whether Kane is a ...
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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: New Line settles; The Hobbit continues its quest

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I’m not sure whether this qualifies as old news, but it’s news to me, and so I thought it worth sharing with readers of The Cimmerian and T...
Monday, September 14, 2009

The fall is fun--but very busy

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I love the fall. It's got my favorite weather, my favorite scenery (New England in autumn is arguably the most beautiful place on earth)...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Satify your sword-fetish with Reclaiming the Blade

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As a fan of medieval arms and armor and middle-ages combat, I highly enjoyed the recent documentary Reclaiming the Blade (Galatia Films, Jul...
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: The Tower of the Elephant dazzling on audio

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“We saw men grow from the ape and build the shining cities of Valusia, Kamelia, Commoria, and their sisters. We saw them reel before the thr...
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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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