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"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

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Stoner by John Williams, a review

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(warning: spoilers… though you can’t really spoil a book like this) It’s not worth talking about the plot of Stoner (1965, John Williams). B...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Branching out in my reading, and reaching a crossroads

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Squint, and it's Conan?  I’m a man of multitudes. I read in many genres, including (gasp) beyond the borders of speculative fiction. Alt...
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Sunday, January 19, 2025

Blogging the Silmarillion--all parts linked

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I've finished uploading all my prior Blogging the Silmarillion posts. In hindsight I feel like I wrote as many words as The Silmarillion...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Rest in peace, Howard Andrew Jones

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The news is out, and it is terrible though not unexpected. Howard Andrew Jones, author of The Desert of Souls, the Hanuvar chronicles, and f...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Gone to the Wolves by John Wray, a review

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80s metal... take me back. Heavy metal ebbs and flows in my veins—but never runs dry. Even as alternative forms of audio entertainment from ...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Celebrating Rob Zombie, graphic artist, at sixty

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Master of many arts, including graphic. Editor's note: We don't get many offers to guest post here on The Silver Key, but here's...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Blogging the Silmarillion--of faith and resisting despair

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I finished re-reading The Silmarillion last night and so will update the remainder of my prior posts on the book. I don’t have a whole lot ...
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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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