gravings

There's a liberal sprinkling of referentiality, Easter eggs of nods to other writers, and to particular pulp stylings, and a lot of that intertextuality is going to be lost on those who haven't read the type of thing I'm riffing off, but the key conceits are maybe not so hard to grasp without a grounding -- the book itself, the Cant, gravings, angels.

What is Literary Fiction? Hal Duncan 2009

None of these gravings were even in there, no lights, no cords whatsoever, just the pants.

Tron Legacy Set Interview: Garrett Hedlund | /Film 2010

The demonic in BUFFY and ANGEL (or in Clive Barker's NIGHTBREED?), the vampiric in Anne Rice, hell, even the gravings in VELLUM & INK -- maybe there's incursion fantasy going on there at a different scale -- at a boundary between self and world.

Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008

So what you have in VELLUM are the unkin with their Cant and their gravings.

Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

Functionally, that's what I see the gravings as, a sort of permanent imprint of identity, a fixing of one's self into a set form.

Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

Functionally, that's what I see the gravings as, a sort of permanent imprint of identity, a fixing of one's self into a set form.

On Existence And Eternity Hal Duncan 2006

Ideas like the unkin, the Cant, gravings, or the Book popped up all over the place.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hal Duncan 2006

So what you have in VELLUM are the unkin with their Cant and their gravings.

On Existence And Eternity Hal Duncan 2006

In 2017, he instills his belief that the Covenant and the Sovereigns are prolonging their struggle indefinitely to his two young protégés, the siblings Thomas and Phreedom Messenger, to whom he also reveals their gravings.

The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan Abigail Nussbaum 2007

And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006