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, May 31, 2011

Shamelessly lifted news items: Agincourt, The Hobbit, and Styrbiorn

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A few news items of interest, lifted shamelessly from other blogs and/or newsgroups I subscribe to: Bernard Cornwell's Agincourt headed...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Entering the Lists in Defense of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe

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There’s a school of thought that views the Middle Ages as a dark gulf between the Classical Age and the rebirth of reason known as the Renai...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Celebrating ten years of slaying dragons

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This past weekend we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our current D&D group . As anticipated we did something really crazy on our 10t...
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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Thor kicks ass!

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I rarely get to see “big person” movies these days. Thanks to my two young daughters, my most recent movie experiences include Tangled, Yogi...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

ST Joshi on Lovecraft

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Courtesy of The Lovecraft Ezine , a fascinating audio interview with H.P. Lovecraft biographer S.T. Joshi. One of the many interesting bits...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

The Top 100 Fantasy Books of all time … or not

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Confession : I’m a top 10/top 100/top whatever list addict. If I find an article on a subject about which I’m even remotely interested, and ...
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny, a review

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I count the first two Mad Max films among my all-time favorites . I’m a sucker for anything post-apocalyptic, but more importantly, they’re...
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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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