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, August 30, 2020

Masculinity in S&S? It’s complicated

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Sword and sorcery is strongly masculine and appeals to men. We can see this same ethos in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movies of the 1980s and ...
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Saturday, August 22, 2020

The best heavy metal guitar solo ever

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I'm not qualified to render this judgement. I've got the time in to make an educated guess, as I've been listening to heavy meta...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2020

A Canticle for Leibowitz, a review

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A nuclear firestorm has caused the downfall of civilization, followed by a wave of benighted barbarism and book-burning. But the wake of the...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Checking in with Tom Barber

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Tom outside his home. This past week I had the privilege of dropping in for a visit with the great Tom Barber. As followers of this blog mig...
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Sunday, August 9, 2020

My Father, The Pornographer: A Memoir

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Andrew J. Offutt was a complex, deeply flawed man. A resident of rural Kentucky, Offutt was a husband and a father who supported his family ...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

The "later Leiber"

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Recently I re-read The Second Book of Lankhmar (pictured, right), the 24th entry in the Millennium/Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks, a series t...
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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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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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