Sword-and-sorcery and heavy metal are among a small handful of my great passions. I write about these and other related topics on my blog, The Silver Key (https://thesilverkey.blogspot.com/). Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery (2020, Pulp Hero Press) is my first book. I'm working on a second book, a heavy metal memoir.
What's brewing with Arcane Arts: Dispatches From The Silver Key
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Brian Murphy
Sword-and-sorcery and heavy metal are among a small handful of my great passions. I write about these and other related topics on my blog, The Silver Key (https://thesilverkey.blogspot.com/). Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery (2020, Pulp Hero Press) is my first book. I'm working on a second book, a heavy metal memoir.
Dispatches from the silver key Arcane Arts As I pressed publish on my latest blog post, a review of the new Deathstalker film that wound up being a disappointing “meh,” I happened to notice the post count at the top of the blogger platform. All (999). 999 posts. The next will be my 1000th. A big round number, worth pausing on. I’ve been blogging for a long time. Since 2007, with a large gap (circa 2013-2019) that can be partially explained by Flame and Crimson, partially for reasons that...
Dispatches from the silver key Arcane Arts This past week I finished To Leave a Warrior Behind, a biography of the late Charles Saunders, author of Imaro and other heroic fantasy stories. Saunders lived a solitary existence, choosing to connect through voluminous letter-writing with dozens of correspondents. Divorced and without family he died alone in May 2020, surrounded by piles of books and very little else to his name. His body was ultimately buried in an unmarked grave. In short, not...
Dispatches from the silver key Arcane Arts Although you wouldn’t know it from the sparse Silver Key updates it’s been a productive last couple weeks on the writing front. I completed two articles and both are in the hands of editors of sword-and-sorcery magazines. Let’s start with “The small press origins of Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane,” which, appropriately enough, will be appearing in a new little fanzine entitled Night Winds. I was just young enough to largely miss the golden age of the...