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

Friday, April 29, 2022

My top 5 Frank Frazetta paintings

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Frank Frazetta is to the art of sword-and-sorcery what Robert E. Howard is to its soul. He’s the visual OG. Not the first S&S artist, bu...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

On suspect art, sword-and-sorcery, and good storytelling

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Confession: I really like the old forms of S&S. I love my old purple-edged Lancers, and Heavy Metal (the movie, and bands like Manowar)....
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Saturday, April 23, 2022

Defending 80s KISS

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Big hair, and hair shirts. According to some "fans" (I won’t name names—yet), KISS was only good in the 70s, and once the makeup c...
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Friday, April 22, 2022

First Blood, David Morrell

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Don't push it, or I'll give you a war you can't believe. Growing up in the 80s, surrounded by larger-than-life action heroes, on...
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Sunday, April 17, 2022

Some scenes from Uncle Eddie's

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Update: Maiden New England and The Hellion were excellent. Both had female lead singers who could belt it out, and great musicians backing t...
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Friday, April 15, 2022

British steel on the docket tomorrow night

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Tomorrow night I'll be seeing two tributes to a pair of British heavy metal legends. Uncle Eddie's Oceanside Tavern is probably not ...

Robert E. Howard Changed My Life

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A window into the soul. I'm glad I’m not the only one.  I knew I wasn’t, of course, but it was nice hearing the voices of so many other ...
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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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