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, July 28, 2023

Remembering Manilla Road's Mark Shelton, heavy metal bard of sword-and-sorcery

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Ben Davidson of Conan the Barbarian fame? Nope, Mark Shelton. Yesterday marked the 5 year anniversary of the death of Mark Shelton, founder ...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Part II of S&S interview video up on YouTube

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Part II of a video interview I did with Jan, The Brilliance of S&S, is now up on YouTube. Check it out here. Part I is available here ....
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Saturday, July 8, 2023

1979 Ken Kelly heroic fantasy calendar, month-by-month

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Let's look inside, shall we? And return to an age undreamed of ....1979. Among my prized finds at 2023 Howard Days was this bad boy. A ...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Talking sword-and-sorcery on YouTube and my current reading

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Prior to my vacation to the Outer Banks I was invited to speak with Jan, a cool dude from the UK with a YouTube channel that covers pulp fic...
Sunday, July 2, 2023

A very metal 50th birthday

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50. I celebrated a milestone birthday this past week at the Outer Banks, Corolla NC. This was not conceived as a "Murph's 50th...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Neither Beg Nor Yield, and other S&S developments

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Keith Taylor was one of the most talented authors to come out of the “second wave” of sword-and-sorcery in the mid-late 70s. Upon a re-read ...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Cormac McCarthy, 1933-2023

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I want to be with you. You cant. Please. You cant. You have to carry the fire. I dont know how to. Yes you do. Is it real? The fire? Yes it...
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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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