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

Monday, February 22, 2021

A Fitting, Final Honor for Charles Saunders, Author of Imaro

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My latest post for DMR Books is up: A Fitting, Final Honor for Charles Saunders, Author of Imaro .  Check it out for my thoughts on the late...
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Friday, February 19, 2021

Up the Irons and eff the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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The Boys from Britain don't need no stinking HOF! Iron Maiden has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. My reaction? Who ...
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Friday, February 12, 2021

Parasite, "Night Winds"

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  The first 1:02 of "Nightwinds," an obscure song by an obscure Swedish metal band named Parasite, encompasses everything I love a...
Saturday, February 6, 2021

Some ramblings on old school tastes in music, reading

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Now that's old school. I was glancing at my bookshelves recently, as I’m wont to do when I’m in between books and scanning for the next...
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Friday, February 5, 2021

Sword-and-Planet Love-Letter: Gardner Fox’s Warrior of Llarn

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Warrior on a blue zebra with horns! In space ...   New post up at the blog of Goodman Games, publisher of Tales from the Magician's Skul...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

Of Heady Topper and the craft brewery revolution

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The OG, Heady Topper. I expend a lot of digital ink on The Silver Key writing about how my eyes were opened to a new kind of fantasy when I ...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Kothar!

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  By Dwalka! This was a fortune to make a man mad. Gardner Fox is far and away my favorite pastiche author. I love his Kothar and Kyrik book...
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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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