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 27, 2023

Still learning from my Dad

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Me and the old man! At The Barking Dog, Amesbury MA. I’m 50 years old and still learning. Still learning from my Dad. Dad is 79 and dealing ...
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Sunday, August 27, 2023

Ace Frehley, Nashua Center for the Arts (Aug. 2023)--a review

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We had good seats... up close and personal with Ace Frehley. Wildly unexpected: Ace Frehley played a cover of Thin Lizzy’s “Emerald” at the ...
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Friday, August 25, 2023

Watership Down and the importance of stories

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We tell stories to give life meaning. Stories show us how to behave, and teach us what matters, through the power of narrative. Stories conv...
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Lord of a Shattered Land: A review

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Hanuvar has lost it all—his land, his people, and his family—following a disastrous military defeat. Narrowly escaping his own death and pre...
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Assessing the sword-and-sorcery "glut"

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Jason Ray Carney recently weighed in on an issue that’s been on my mind, too: The glut of new sword-and-sorcery fiction . Asks Jason: Becaus...
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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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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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