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, January 30, 2024

Authenticity, Inward and Outward

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The third in a series about my personal values . Part 1 here , Part 2 here . I lived a big chunk of my life like a chameleon, changing who I...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Death Dealer 3: Semi-enjoyable (?) train-wreck

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I’m back at it again, with a long-awaited review of Death Dealer 3: Tooth and Claw . Check out my reviews of book 1 and book 2 of this fou...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Organizing my bookshelves: How I do it (YMMV—no hate)

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Tor Conan, ERB, CAS, Moorcock... and more. It’s time to weigh in on a topic so contentious, so divided, so fraught with the potential for in...
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Friday, January 12, 2024

Going Viking at DMR Books

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No, not looting and plundering Dave Ritzlin's book hoard, but do have a new post up on his blog:  A Deep Cut of Adventure: The Saga of S...
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Friday, January 5, 2024

The Truth of the Matter of Britain

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Something about January has been bringing me back to King Arthur. Maybe it's the promise of renewal, of a hopeful dawn on a new golden a...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

The Silver Key: 2023 in review

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It’s the tail end of 2023. Another trip round the sun, another year of blogging on The Silver Key. Many things of import happened this year....
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Thursday, December 21, 2023

Feeling like it's time to watch these again

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Have you ever been called home by the clear ringing of silver trumpets? I have. To this book . And to the movies. But it's been a while....
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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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