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 28, 2011

Looking for the real Robert E. Howard in One Who Walked Alone

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It couldn’t have been easy for Novalyne Price Ellis to write One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard the Final Years (Donald M. Grant Publish...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Books I've read in 2011

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One of my new year's resolutions was to read more in 2011. I've got an incredible backlog of titles to get through, and more stuff i...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

The irony of it all is...

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... I don't even have a subscription to HBO, so if you're looking for episode-by-episode reviews of A Game of Thrones , you've c...
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

GRRM, Salon respond to negative GOT reviews

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Go George ! It seems George R.R. Martin himself has responded to the critical New York Times review referenced in my last post. Cool to see...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Media disgracing itself with A Game of Thrones coverage

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When the network ventures away from its instincts for real-world sociology, as it has with the vampire saga “True Blood,” things start to fe...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

A Review of George MacDonald’s Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

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Warning: Some spoilers ahead Advancing a claim that something is the “first” anything is daring a slippery slope, but saying a book is the ...
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Monday, April 11, 2011

Sale offers proof that J.R.R. Tolkien likely read Robert E. Howard

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L. Sprague de Camp is not exactly known as a bastion of credibility among readers of Robert E. Howard. In his 1983 biography Dark Valley Des...
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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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