Part of this is the second person narration for Lucifer’s point of view.
It is an interesting reading experience when Duncan gets to Lucifer at last. He is a character that doesn’t fail to acknowledge his own fault but manages to accept them. The Lucifer of Duncan’s creation is one part Milton, one part folk hero, and one part mad genius. Maybe that isn’t quite fair to Duncan’s work here since amongst the almost non-stop action he manages to include scenes of startling horror and desperation while, at the same time, crafting a scathing commentary on the Christian notion of Hell. While it has take me a while to finally get around to reading the novella I am most definitely glad I did.Įscape from Hell! is like an action movie smashed into 140 pages. Thus when Monkey Brain Books published his novella Escape from Hell! back in December (oddly enough, two months prior to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle’s Escape from Hell) I was excited to give Duncan another try. By the time its sequel Ink came along I was too busy and bit too far removed from my reading of Vellum to finish out the series. Hal Duncan’s Vellum is a challenging and thought provoking piece of fiction that bounces back and forth between familiarity and originality never settling on one side of the fence for too long. I’m not sure it’s abandoned, says Matthew.
I’d say that’s exactly the sort of creepy shit you don’t want to hear in an abandoned lunatic asylum. Then, too clear and close to mistake, an answer or echo, ragged as a cat’s yowl or a baby’s wail. What the fuck is that sound?Ī siren waver so faint only the peaks of pitch and volume are audible over the drip of pipes.
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