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

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Closing out 2011 with a glimpse of Heroic Visions

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So I had given Jessica Amanda Salmonson some hard ink a while back for her less than stellar appraisal of Robert E. Howard in the introdu...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Updated Blood and Thunder Portends Good Start to 2012 for Robert E. Howard Fans

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2011 hasn’t been the kindest year for fans of Robert E. Howard. January saw the end of the fine Del Rey series of Howard originals with the ...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

The Hobbit trailer

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Joining the chorus weighing in on the new The Hobbit trailer… Despite the lukewarm reception it’s getting by James at Grognardia and A...
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Friday, December 16, 2011

Tolkien porn

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This could be the most beautiful book shelf I've ever laid eyes upon, at least this side of Middle-Earth . Photo is from the blog of T...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

2001: A Space Odyssey, a review

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Warning: Spoilers Our species has come a long way in what amounts to a relative eyeblink of history. From apes quarreling in the dirt over...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Enjoying the Unique Character of Karl Edward Wagner’s Dark Crusade

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Why has swords and sorcery languished while epic fantasy enjoys a wide readership? In an age of diminished attention spans and the prolife...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

What I've read so far this year

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As I stated before I set out to read a book a week in 2011. It's a pretty modest goal, but I'm not the fastest reader ever and have ...
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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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