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, March 29, 2024

Some observations while reading Bulfinch’s Mythology

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From the warm and pleasant climes of the civilized Mediterranean to the wastes of the frozen north, every civilization and culture had a str...
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Saturday, March 23, 2024

One of those mind-blowing I'm old/time is short/all a matter of perspective/WTF type posts

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The first time I saw Black Sabbath live was on the Ozzfest tour, Mansfield MA, June 1997. 27 years ago. Black Sabbath released its debut alb...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Of internet induced “Panic Attack” and Judas Priest’s Invincible Shield

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False metal cowers before this shield. Even as I’m feeling dragged down by the state of “reality” such as we know it, I’m buoyed, once again...
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Sunday, March 17, 2024

50 years of Dungeons and Dragons

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No save... but lots of fun. This is the year of golden anniversaries. On the heels of 50 years of Savage Sword of Conan comes a half centur...
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Saturday, March 9, 2024

The Savage Sword of Conan no. 1, Titan Comics: A review

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I haven’t bought a new comic book in 33 years, when I purchased the April 1991 Savage Sword of Conan as a high school senior. The venerable ...
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Friday, March 8, 2024

Look what came in the mail

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  Looking forward to reading this. It’s the first new comic book/illustrated magazine I’ve purchased since 1991. Feeling optimistic after re...
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Monday, March 4, 2024

Our modern problems with reading

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We don’t have infinite time. The amount of reading attention any new book must compete with is getting progressively smaller. So we have to ...
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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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