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, September 27, 2020

Heavy metal party and The Priest, part 3

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(This is a story about how from 2011-2018 I hosted the ultimate heavy metal party and survived to tell the tale. Read parts 1 and 2 here an...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

A review of Tom Shippey’s Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings

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The man, the myth... Tom Shippey As a Professor Emeritus of Saint Louis University, Tom Shippey understands the current trends shaping histo...
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Saturday, September 19, 2020

Heavy metal party and The Priest, part 2

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The Quilt, made of Judas Priest concert Ts Murph's 6th annual Metal Party is back, and this one goes to 11! The can't-miss metal eve...
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Monday, September 14, 2020

Heavy metal party and The Priest, Part 1

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For five years, from 2011-2015, I hosted an annual heavy metal themed party. And had a blast. Ultimately it grew into something much more. H...
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Friday, September 11, 2020

Heavy metal. It's coming.

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I've got a hell of a story to tell that I'm working on for the blog. Will be a few more days. Stay tuned.
Friday, September 4, 2020

Farewell to Charles Saunders

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Word spread on Facebook last night that Charles Saunders, author of Imaro , has passed away. It is being reported he died in May. Odd that a...
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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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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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