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

Friday, March 30, 2012

Metal Friday: "Valkyries" by Blind Guardian

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In an effort to get more heavy metal on this blog--because why would anyone possibly want less metal--I'm hereby starting a "Metal...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Seven Princes by John R. Fultz, a Review

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What do you want out of your fantasy? Mythmaking in the mold of JRR Tolkien’s The Silmarillion ? Freebooting adventure, decaying civiliz...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

A dalliance in murder ... Donald Westlake's The Hook

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I recently agreed to review the audio book of  Donald Westlake's The Hook  for SFFaudio.com. It's a mystery/suspense novel, I believ...
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Some thoughts upon reading John Gardner’s Grendel

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I’m troubled, deeply troubled, by the extremes of existentialist, postmodern thought. The kind that gets put under the microscope in J...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

25 years of Evil Dead 2? Groovy.

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Wow, has it really been 25 years since Evil Dead 2 came out?  Guess it's time to break out the VCR (yes, I still own one. And lots of V...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie, a review

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“Who cares who’s buried where?” muttered Craw, thinking about all the men he’d seen buried. “Once a man’s in the ground he’s just mud. M...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Getting a good chuckle—while feeling annoyed/confused—about The Walking Dead nerdrage

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Returning to a bit of familiar turf for me ...(ranting ahead) You gotta laugh—or maybe weep—at hardcore nerds in frothing nerdrage with ...
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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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