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

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Gene Wolfe is intimidating. The Knight is not. I also recommend smoked brisket.

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I’ve got a Gene Wolfe sized hole in my reading.  Wolfe is generally accorded of the most respected and literary fantasy authors--ever. Reade...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Facebook ripped me off

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I punched my name into this handy plagiarism detection tool published by The Atlantic , and like millions of other authors discovered Mark Z...
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Friday, March 21, 2025

The Rage, Judas Priest

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It's a testament to the greatness of British Steel that a song as good as "The Rage" is buried deep on side 2. Wait, do peopl...
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

The Ring of the Nibelung/Roy Thomas and Gil Kane

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The Ring is mine! Over the course of my lifetime I’ve been exposed to Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung in many and various ways. T...
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Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Empress of Dreams—an (overdue) appreciation of Tanith Lee

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I don’t write fiction, but I’ve read enough of it to make some observations about what makes for good writing. Here’s one: Good writing resu...
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Sunday, March 9, 2025

We're living in an outrage machine

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Tanith Lee = anti-outrage. Ronnie James Dio once sang that you’re living in a time machine . Today we’re all living in an outrage machine. I...
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Friday, March 7, 2025

Sign of the Southern Cross, Black Sabbath

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Don't live for pleasure Make life your treasure Fade away
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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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