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

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Eternal Champion: Sing a Last Song of Valdese

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Can you have metal Friday on a Tuesday night? You can if its Thanksgiving week. Today I'm highlighting "Sing a Last Song of Valdese...
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Friday, November 19, 2021

Sword-and-sorcery had a BAD reputation in the late 70s/early 80s; here's more evidence

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In Flame and Crimson I advanced the claim that one of the principal reasons behind the demise of sword-and-sorcery was its poor reputation....
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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Signs of a (modest) S&S revival

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Look around, you can see the drips. Slow, and few, but persistent. That's pretty sword-and-sorcery. A new issue of Phantasmagoria dedica...
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Saturday, November 6, 2021

Who am I?

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Not Jean Valjean. But, maybe not quite who you’d expect, either.   On this blog I have assumed a certain persona, centered around my various...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

I backed Tales from the Magician's Skull; you should too

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Tales from the Magician's Skull has launched a second kickstarter, More Tales from the Magician's Skull, to fund additional issues ...
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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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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