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

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Moorcock's Missed Elric Opportunity

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My latest entry for DMR is up. Check out Moorcock's Missed Elric Opportunity here . This one seems to be gaining a lot of traction on F...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Sifting Through a Sword-and-Sorcery Definition

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Latest mini-essay is now up on Goodman Games/blog of Tales from the Magician's Skull . The metaphor of sword-and-sorcery as a sifter cam...
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Friday, September 17, 2021

Darkest Hour, Iron Maiden

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I'm still in the discovery/absorption phase of Senjutsu , Iron Maiden's new album. This has been my pattern with all of Maiden's...
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Saturday, September 4, 2021

Remembering the life of Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was born on Sept. 1, and as this coincides with my current read: Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Man who Created ...
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Friday, August 27, 2021

The Fantastic S&S contributions of Cele Goldsmith

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Fafhrd and GM going at it, for show, in "The Lords of Quarmall" Oliver Brackenbury, host of the Unknown Worlds of the Merrill Coll...
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Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Men of Iron, Howard Pyle

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Any Howard Pyle fans in the house? If so, or if you're looking for fun, old-school, historical fiction adventure, my review of Pyle'...
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Saturday, August 14, 2021

RIP Steve Perrin

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Just heard of the passing of game designer Steve Perrin , best known as one of the key creators of perhaps my favorite RPG of all time, Rune...
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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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