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, July 31, 2020

Of sword-and-sorcery, politics, and the Flashing Swords that wasn't

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I'm not naive, and I'm aware that politics leeches into all walks of life, art included. Consciously or subconsciously, ones religio...
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Monday, July 27, 2020

Feeling SAD on a Monday? Listen to this

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Dangers galore in these old books... By SAD of course I mean Swords Against Darkness , that awesome 1977 Zebra anthology of sword-and-so...
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Friday, July 24, 2020

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's all about execution.

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The title of the post should speak for itself, but a little context. Heard on the intranets recently... "Gary Gygax ripped off Dave A...
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Home work (outs)

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Heavy metal. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus I've switched to working out from home and dumped the commercial gym. And I...
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Monday, July 20, 2020

Some recent arrivals

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Thanks Amazon! I'm looking forward to digging into these, in particular My Father The Pornographer , Chris Offutt's memoir of hi...
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Thursday, July 9, 2020

Halls of Valhalla, Judas Priest

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This one is worth a listen (he says, in understated fashion): Fierce is the gale From the north sea We drink and rejoice from the ...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Some notes on Swords Against Darkness and the Appendix N Book Club Podcast

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Not a volume of Robert E. Howard stories, despite the large "Robert E. Howard" This past Sunday I had the honor of joining...
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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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