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, April 25, 2021

A wall of S&S

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I'm currently in the final stages of a basement office/bar renovation that will yield me a retreat worthy of the Gods. This lengthy proj...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Sometimes you get lucky: An S&S haul

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Sometimes you just get lucky. I managed to acquire this haul for free, from a very nice gent who was selling his home, moving across the cou...
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Saturday, April 17, 2021

Gateways to sword-and-sorcery

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Monster Tales!  What are yours? I have many fond memories of youthful reading. When I was in elementary school I was enthralled with the lik...
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Friday, April 16, 2021

Flame and Crimson in Xuthal: Innsmouth Book Club Podcast is up

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As mentioned on my last post , I was recently invited to guest on the Innsmouth Book Club podcast. That recording is now up; you can listen ...
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Saturday, April 10, 2021

Some swordly-and-sorcerous goings-on, and guest appearances

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If you want to get invited on a podcast, the thing to do is to write a book (it's that easy! Well, not the writing of the book part, whi...
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Friday, April 9, 2021

Man of Sorrows, Bruce Dickinson

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If you're an Iron Maiden fan but have not given Bruce Dickinson's solo albums a listen, you're behaving in a criminally irrespon...
Friday, April 2, 2021

Queen of the Black Coast, Manilla Road (and REH, too)

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Did Robert E. Howard influence heavy metal artists? Does a bear shit in the woods? Among the many things I love about sword-and-sorcery are ...
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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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