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Vergil in Averno

By: Avram Davidson
Narrated by: David Pickering
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Inspired by medieval legends about the poet Vergil, who was revered not only as the author of the Aeneid but also as a powerful necromancer, Davidson embarked on his Vergil Magus series in the '60s with the intriguing novel The Phoenix and the Mirror.

In this sequel, Vergil answers a magical summons from Averno, both the wealthiest and the filthiest of cities. The magnates there are worried about the waning and shifting of the natural fires that have fueled their industries and fouled their air.

©1989 Avram Davidson (P)2022 Seth Davis
Fantasy Fiction Historical Horror Scary Magic Magic Users Paranormal
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Just more of Davidson's wonderfully meandering sentences and wonderfully meandering plot, both of which snap into sense and focus with dazzling intellectual and linguistic dexterity. Vergil is drawn to Averno, a very rich and uniquely horrible city, but who has drawn him there and why? If not already familiar, worth quickly looking up 'Averno' when finished for a sense of how much of a satisfying medieval just-so legend this really is.

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