Brian Murphy
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Marketing |
| Occupation | Branding Director |
| Location | Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | 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). |
| Interests | Reading, writing, history, role-playing games, heavy metal, sword-and-sorcery fiction, questionable horror films, weight training |
| Favorite Movies | Lord of the Rings, Excalibur, Unforgiven, Donnie Darko, The Shawshank Redemption, Conan the Barbarian, The Godfather, Jaws, Dawn of the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, Mad Max, Band of Brothers, 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| Favorite Music | Iron Maiden, KISS, Blind Guardian, Judas Priest, Manilla Road, RUSH, Ronnie James Dio |
| Favorite Books | The Lord of the Rings, The Once and Future King, 1984, The Stand, The Broken Sword, Watership Down, Robert E. Howard's Conan ("Red Nails, " "Beyond the Black River, " etc.), The Silmarillion, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series, Karl Edward Wagner's Kane series, The Dying Earth, The Killer Angels, Gates of Fire, The Warlord Trilogy. |