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

Monday, October 31, 2011

The Conqueror Worm

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Lo! t’is a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a thea...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Swords from the East, Swords from the Sea by Harold Lamb, a review

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Swords from the Sea Harold Lamb Howard Andrew Jones, ed. Bison Books (552 pp, $24.95, 2010) Swords from the East Harold Lamb Howard ...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Rising by Brian Keene, a review

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If there’s one comforting aspect to zombies, it’s the fact that they’re brainless, depicted in most mediums as well below the level of prima...
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Monday, October 17, 2011

Zombies on the brain

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I've got zombies on the brain. Watched The Walking Dead season two premiere last night (good stuff) and I'm about to start reading ...
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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Are we becoming "The Happy Breed"?

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Still working my way through the Harlan Ellison edited anthology Dangerous Visions (highly recommended reading, by the way), and I’ve come ...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Barbarism meets academia at College of St. Joseph in Vermont

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Cross posted with the permission of Rob Roehm of the Robert E. Howard Foundation website , I thought the following too interesting not to sh...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

There has never been a craps table described quite like this

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I'm at the halfway mark of a book I've long had on my "to be read" list--the Harlan Ellison-edited anthology Dangerous Vis...
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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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