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

Saturday, August 7, 2010

20 years of KISS—and counting

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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And j...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

On Stories: Discovering a kindred spirit in C.S. Lewis

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Though he’s best known as the author of the Chronicles of Narnia , C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) was also a prolific essayist and an ardent defende...
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Taking the Fantasy Masterworks challenge

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Riffing off (or perhaps stealing from, whatever you want to call it) posts over at The Blog That Time Forgot and Dweomera Lagomorpha , whic...
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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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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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