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, April 26, 2025

The day Hannah met Sam Gamgee (and called to tell me)

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My Sam Gamgee is indeed a reflexion of the English  soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far sup...
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Friday, April 18, 2025

Cauldron Born: Born of the Cauldron

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Cauldron Born is sword-and-sorcery brought to heavy metal life. Band members Howie Bentley and Matthew Knight are not just talented musician...
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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Death gives meaning to life

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Roy Batty is pissed. He is the peak of what a replicant can be. Brilliant and reflective. Handsome and powerful, a physical specimen. But de...
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Friday, April 11, 2025

The Knight stands against nihilism

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Excellent book... unfortunate cover blurb. “It is honor, Able. A knight is a man who lives honorably and dies honorably, because he cares mo...
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Sunday, April 6, 2025

My daughter has a Substack. Which is very cool.

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I started this blog back in September 2007, a time when things were different . Iron Man was still a year away from kicking off the MCU sup...
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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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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