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, October 15, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Karl Edward Wagner's contributions to the horror genre

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Horror fiction has held a universal appeal throughout the ages. Every culture has had its myths of demons and ghosts and were-beasts. If Ste...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

The scariest movie you've ever seen? Cast your vote

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I'm one of those people who compulsively votes on polls when I find them on the internet so I've been throwing a few up here on The ...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Reveling in the slaughter of Agincourt

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Bernard Cornwell’s Agincourt (2009, HarperCollins Publishers) does not tell the story of a battle, but rather of a terrible red butchery. E...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Wherein I win swag, and get to ask Steven Pressfield a question

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Now this is cool. Author and overall cool guy Scott Oden of Echoes of a Forgotten Age recently held a contest that involved readers posting...
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Thursday, October 1, 2009

A trifecta of links

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Cross-posted from The Cimmerian , here's some interesting links from around the web. The second issue of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is ou...
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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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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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