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 29, 2010

A King-sized project begins

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Writer Adam Christopher has embarked on a very ambitious project—reading and reviewing all of Stephen King’s books in the order in which the...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Thirty-five years of despair: The continuing relevance of Harlan Ellison’s Deathbird Stories

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I still remember many years ago reading the admonition that serves as the preface to Harlan Ellison’s Deathbird Stories (1975). I had never...
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Thursday, April 15, 2010

Howard’s Muse: Some ruminations by historical fiction author Steven Pressfield

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Historical fiction author Steven Pressfield, perhaps best known for Gates of Fire , a magnificent re-telling of the Battle of Thermopylae, w...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

“Unshaken on his rocky throne above the bleak fjords”: A review of H. Rider Haggard’s Eric Brighteyes

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The default setting for most fantasy is a faux late-Middle Ages, generally ascribed to the period from the Norman conquest of 1066 to roughl...
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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Cimmerian sighting: Adrift in The Pacific

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I’ve always had a fascination with World War II. When I was a kid I played with army soldiers and guns, pretend battles with friends that al...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Ronnie James Dio: Putting the sword to the dragon of cancer, still defying the ravages of time

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—The best steel goes through the fire Ronnie James Dio, Hide in the Rainbow If you’re a fan of heavy metal music, you’re probably aware that...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Closing the book on The Silmarillion

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Re-reading The Silmarillion was a lot of fun—as I knew it would be. From the Dagor Brallogach to the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, from The Fall of G...
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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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