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

Saturday, October 30, 2021

The Wolfen, Whitley Strieber

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I own this same edition... Stephen King once said that the release people get from horror is "sort of narcotic," freeing us from o...
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Friday, October 29, 2021

Unearthing David Drake's The Barrow Troll (back from Dallas)

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Holy fuck. I'm back after 11 straight days of work, including a six-day conference in Dallas that consumed as much as 16 hours on given ...
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Saturday, October 23, 2021

The Day of Might hath come!

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  Today has been decreed The Day of Might by the Skull, and the fine folks over at Tales from the Magician's Skull. It's a day to ce...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Heart of a Lion, Judas Priest

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For this Metal Friday, an obscure song by Judas Priest that nevertheless kicks some serious ass. "Heart of a Lion" was supposed to...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

S&S updates: Glass Hammer, Schuyler Hernstrom, and more

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In full disclosure I'm not a big prog fan, unless you count the likes of RUSH, and perhaps a bit of Yes' back catalogue. I'm met...
Friday, October 8, 2021

Ten Sword-and-Sorcery Tales For the Haunting Season

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My latest post is up on the blog of Tales from the Magician's Skull : Ten Sword-and-Sorcery Tales for the Haunting Season. I'm feeli...
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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...
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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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