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

Sunday, December 29, 2019

On reading in 2020 and beyond

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In the last six or so years I have spent less time reading, and the amount of books I read annually has declined. I’ve identified a few reas...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019

A brief history of the Fourteenth Engineers, and William A. Murphy

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Railroading under fire was a test of a man’s nerves. For the most part it had to be done at night—with uncertainty as to whether the roa...
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Thursday, December 19, 2019

The Bard's Song

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Blind Guardian is a top 10 band for me. Not quite at the level of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, or KISS, but way up there. If you’re a fan of p...
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Sunday, December 15, 2019

Flame and Crimson headed to the printer

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Behold the kick-ass cover of Flame and Crimson, mortals! It’s done. At 11:10 a.m. EST this morning I made a handful of cosmetic ed...
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Friday, December 6, 2019

Michael Moorcock on the airwaves: New interview up on the Appendix N Book Club podcast

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I was very pleasantly surprised to discover that one of the podcasts in my regular listening rotation, Appendix N Book Club, recently cond...
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Thursday, November 28, 2019

Of White Dwarf magazine and ruminations on genre fiction

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By the Sacred Jockstrap of Robert E. Howard! Since writing Flame and Crimson I seem to have become hyper-aware of the term “sword-and-...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

How (and why) I wrote Flame and Crimson

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For those interested in the how and a little behind the why I wrote Flame and Crimson the following is a look behind the curtain. I s...
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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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