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, April 25, 2023

Howard Days are upon me

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Two days from now I shall be standing upon the soil of Cross Plains attending my first Robert E. Howard Days. This shit is real. Some news s...
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Saturday, April 22, 2023

Judas Priest, "Traitors Gate"

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Close your eyes, listen to the dude signing this song. Try to reconcile what you're hearing with a man (then) in his late 60s.  Impressi...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Howard Days looming larger...

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That red dot? I'll be there. Just over one week until Robert E. Howard Days. Next Thursday, April 27 I’ll be flying out of Logan Interna...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Are we in a new sword-and-sorcery renaissance? Not yet. At least commercially.

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Some corners of the internet are speculating whether we’re in a third sword-and-sorcery wave. This assumes a first, unnamed wave in which S...
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Friday, April 7, 2023

Caught in the Middle, Ronnie James Dio

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Metal Friday this week, we're going with an upbeat rocker from the late, great Ronnie James Dio.  "Caught in the Middle" is no...
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Sunday, April 2, 2023

The Goshawk, T.H. White

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Enraptured by a raptor... The author of a blog I follow mentioned in an off-hand way the life-affirming power in this obscure title by T.H. ...
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Saturday, April 1, 2023

Heroes behaving badly: The wondrous and bastardly creations of Jack Vance

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S&S protagonists: Occasionally lovable scumbags. Cugel the Clever probably isn’t a guy you want to invite to dinner. You’d be guaranteed...
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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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