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"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

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Stephen King, Halloween, and the joy of reading

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I own this edition, just a lot more beat up. Yesterday evening I experienced an unmitigated pleasure. The nonsense and hard work of the day ...
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Saturday, October 24, 2020

Some new sword-and-sorcery titles worth a look

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Here at The Silver Key I spend most of my time talking classic sword-and-sorcery, but I’ve been keeping track of some new releases that I th...
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Saturday, October 17, 2020

Recording of "The Best Sword & Sorcery of the 20th Century" panel now available

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Last night I spent the better part of 2 1/2 hours in an interesting, rambling discussion about sword-and-sorcery with the likes of Howard An...
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Friday, October 9, 2020

Upcoming panel session: "The Best Sword & Sorcery Stories of the 20th Century"

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On Friday Oct. 16 I'll be taking part in an S&S panel session, part of the (wonderfully named) Bride of Cyclops Con , an online conv...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Steve Tompkins at 60

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Deuce Richardson at DMR Blog asked me to write something to commemorate what would have been Steve Tompkins 60th birthday today, had he had ...
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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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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