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, February 28, 2024

50 years of Savage Sword of Conan, and beyond

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Ahh, no. 29, I love you. Love them all... Savage Sword of Conan debuted August 1974.  I was just one year old. Probably a little young to be...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

A few updates and a space Viking

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My friend Tom Barber bought a machine that transfers 35mm slides onto his computer, allowing him to convert his artwork to a digital format....
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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Ruminations on subversive and restorative impulses, and conservative and liberal modes of fantasy fiction

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Two towers, old and new. Liberalism seeks to make anew. Conservatism desires to preserve the time-tested.  The former represents the creativ...
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Saturday, February 3, 2024

The Shadow of Vengeance by Scott Oden, a review

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Some would say there is no good Conan pastiche*, that the only stories of the Cimmerian worth reading are the 21 originals by Robert E. Howa...
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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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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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