Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy (born 1973) discovered Robert E. Howard in the pages of Savage Sword of Conan in the early 1980s, sparking a lifelong love of fantasy. He was recruited to join a group of bloggers at The Cimmerian, a website dedicated to Howard, J.R.R. Tolkien, and heroic fantasy. Since then he has been published in such print and online venues as Black Gate, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Dark Man, and Skelos.

Murphy’s essay “The Unnatural City” (from The Cimmerian, Vol. 5 No. 2) was nominated for Outstanding Achievement—Essay at the first annual Robert E. Howard Foundation awards in 2009, as was his “Unmasking ‘The Shadow Kingdom’: Kull and Howard as Outsiders” (from REH: Two-Gun Raconteur #14) in 2011.

In 2021, his book Flame and Crimson won the Atlantean Award for Outstanding Achievement, Book.