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, February 28, 2023

The Rhyme of the Viking Path, Robert E. Howard

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Art by Tom Barber. Reading the Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 2 (1930-1932), and encountered this poem Howard fired off in a l...
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Sunday, February 26, 2023

Sword-and-sorcery updates: Howard Days, Flame and Crimson review

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Headed to the hallowed homestead of REH... A few items of note on the sword-and-sorcery front. I’m headed to Howard Days! Yesterday I “lock...
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Friday, February 24, 2023

"Let it Go," Def Leppard

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Sometimes you just need hair metal. Or the equivalent. Def Leppard is close enough.  I'm a fan of Leppard up through and including Hyste...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Dullness on the edge of rage

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I used to rant a lot more here on the blog, and elsewhere. But today I find that most things in my small corner of pulp culture aren’t worth...
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Thursday, February 16, 2023

Remembering The Cimmerian

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I own these guys, and others besides... When I first got into this “thing” --writing about sword-and-sorcery and heroic fantasy, on the inte...
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Saturday, February 11, 2023

Sometime Lofty Towers, David C. Smith

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There is a metaphor in this tower, for sure. I can’t help but feel sorry for Charles Saunders, Richard Tierney, David C. Smith, and others w...
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Friday, February 10, 2023

Kill Devil Hill, Bruce Dickinson

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It's no secret I'm a Bruce Dickinson fanboy . I straight up think he might have saved heavy metal (or at least, threw me a lifeline...
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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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