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, September 2, 2022

Fantastic! And thoughts on pastiches

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More witches! Art by Jones. Recently I picked up seven issues of Fantastic. This former digest-sized magazine ran from 1952-1980 before fol...
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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Ace Frehley lead guitar!

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One of my fondest heavy metal memories is seeing Ace Frehley at the now-defunct Underground, a former rock club in Lowell, MA, back in March...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

A bookish nostalgia

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Humans are on a path of upward progress. This is a good thing. We enjoy material comfort and personal levels of wealth unimaginable 200 year...
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Sunday, August 14, 2022

Tales from the Magician’s Skull #6

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They're back!  Finally getting around to review of a magazine I have been subscribing to since its inception, Tales from the Magician’s ...
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Friday, August 12, 2022

Thin Lizzy, "Emerald"

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Outstanding hard rock/metal from Thin Lizzy today. This band deserves to be known as more than just the dudes who wrote "Jailbreak...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

What is best in life?

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 Look no further.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Getting political in fantasy fiction

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A good idea? Or, should politics be avoided? Can it ever be avoided, when authors are humans and presumably possessed of some political bent...
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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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