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

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

A review of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles

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All right, then, what is Chronicles ? Is it King Tut out of the tomb when I was three? Norse Eddas when I was six? And Roman/Greek gods that...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: Iron Maiden's The Trooper

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(Note: Over at The Cimmerian, fellow blogger Deuce Richardson asked if we could supply posts to commemorate October 25th , which has resound...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Cimmerian sighting: A Q&A session with the editors of Heroic Fantasy Quarterly

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Outside of a handful of anthologies and magazines, the market for the genre known as heroic fantasy is as dry as the sands of Stygia. Which ...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Ed Cassidy and Don Teschek: The postwar years

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Note: This is part 2 of a 2-part article. You can read part 1 here . Pictured above, Don Teschek and his daughter Karen on Lynn Beach, circ...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Farewell to an old friend

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A couple months back I posted about an article I was working on regarding my grandfather and his good friend, Ed Cassidy. The two were long...
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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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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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