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

Thursday, September 25, 2025

Top 5 horror movie babes of the 70s and 80s

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I'm howling... I was born in 1973 and by the mid-80s developed a taste for horror films. It was a time when werewolves and slashers were...
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Friday, September 19, 2025

Disconnect

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“Jeremiah, maybe you best go down to a town, get outta these mountains.” “I've been to a town Del.” --Jeremiah Johnson Technology has ta...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Of pastiche and John C. Hocking’s Conan and the Living Plague

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These dead are unquiet... I don’t mind pastiche … which is I suppose a bit of a lukewarm way of saying I support it. Nonetheless it’s how I ...
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Friday, September 12, 2025

Bruce Dickinson at the House of Blues, Boston MA Sept. 11, 2025

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If all Bruce Dickinson had was his solo career he’d still be remembered in the annals of heavy metal. Bruce’s best solo efforts— Accident of...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Conan and the Living Plague

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I'm reading John C. Hocking's Conan and the Living Plague for Cimmerian September.  Nothing else to add at the moment except that i...
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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Reading is in trouble … what are we going to do about it?

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Reading is in trouble. How deeply? There’s evidence it may be in a death spiral. A new study published in the journal iScience found that d...
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Friday, September 5, 2025

Hell on Earth, Iron Maiden

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Senjutsu has been out four years (Sept. 2021), long enough that I feel confident in selecting a favorite song. That song is "Hell on E...
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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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