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 28, 2022

Top 10 reasons why I don’t care about Amazon’s The Rings of Power

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The Rings of... Meh. Perhaps you might be wondering, hey, when is that guy from The Silver Key going to weigh in on The Rings of Power? He l...
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Monday, September 26, 2022

Michael Moorcock and other Stranger Things

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I was OOO (and frankly, only semi-coherent) this past Friday-Sunday, after a sorely needed guys weekend getaway. Me and four other dudes ren...
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Friday, September 23, 2022

Headless Cross, Black Sabbath

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I love discovering old shit that I missed in my indifferent, misguided youth. Yet another example: Headless Cross, Black Sabbath's 14 st...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022

Before They Are Hanged, some thoughts on Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy

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Some hanging... much stabbing. I'm now two-thirds of the way through Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy, having just finished the secon...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Fantastic essay and other updates

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Failed to mention that my post on Fantastic , that digest-size magazine that ran from 1952-1980 and published a fair bit of sword-and-sorcer...
Friday, September 16, 2022

"Rockin' Again," Saxon

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What? Saxon has yet to make an appearance on Metal Friday? Consider that corrected. I could have thrown up something from Denim and Leather ...
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Friday, September 9, 2022

Blood Tears, Blind Guardian

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Today's Metal Friday is a cut off Nightfall in Middle-Earth by the great Blind Guardian. "Blood Tears" is typical of the work ...
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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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