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, July 27, 2010

My recent haul o' books

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July has been a very good month for book finds and acquisitions. Between a July 4 fairground and some leftover Barnes and Noble and Borders ...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Wolfe’s lost road: Discovering an author’s personal essay on J.R.R. Tolkien

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Freedom, love of neighbour, and personal responsibility are steep slopes; he could not climb them for us—we must do that ourselves. But he h...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Heroes of the Fallen: A review

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With the bittersweet music of battle over, I found him at dusk, buried amid the mass of his ten thousand. He and I, the last of his legion. ...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

IT: A review

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You don’t have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever, live with them forever, love with them forever. ...
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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Back in Black (Gate) and reading Clark Ashton Smith

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Well, I made it back more or less intact from vacation. All that's changed is I'm a little bit tanner and my beer gut has grown a li...
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Saturday, June 26, 2010

A pause in programming

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Note to passers-by: I won't be posting to The Silver Key for a good week or so--I'm taking a vacation (internet-free) with the famil...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Top 10 fantasy fiction battles: Camlann

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1. Battle of Camlann , from various sources Many a spear was thrust and splintered, Many a stern word spoken; Many a sword was hacked and be...
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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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