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, May 30, 2025

Gods of War, Def Leppard

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Electric guitars playing in the right tone can produce in me a feeling that has no words. Its like I've entered into a new dimension adj...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck, a review

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John Steinbeck is rightly remembered these days as a Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and secondarily, East of Eden; a...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

A crisis of artificiality

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The world is getting increasingly artificial. And by world, I mean the online spaces most of us inhabit for many/most of our waking hours.  ...
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Saturday, May 17, 2025

We are called to live: A night with Wildside in Dracut MA

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Take a ride on the Wildside.  Many/most 50+ year-old men were probably at home watching the Celtics playoff game last night. I was called ba...
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Friday, May 16, 2025

Sixteenth Century Greensleeves, Rainbow (RIP Ronnie James Dio)

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Fifteen years ago today we lost the great Ronnie James Dio . As time passes my appreciation of his music only grows.  Here’s a deep cut from...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Here's something cool: Tom Barber painting donated to Andover (NH) public library

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On April 26, my friend Tom Barber--an Andover NH resident and a well-known painter and illustrator since the 1970s, presented his painting o...
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Sunday, May 11, 2025

Rock and metal shows starting to accumulate

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When the year began I had just one show on schedule, Ace Frehley on Jan. 30 at the Tupelo Theater in Derry, NH. Possibly a second in Lotus L...
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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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