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He was a master in arts marvelous, however, not yet Incantor et Magus. Now Vergil Magus, the powerful sorcerer-poet, comes back in the long-awaited prequel to Avram Davidson's best-selling book of fable and magic, The Phoenix and the Reflection. Here, Vergil's incredible adventures start as he journeys in to the hideous heart of evil and darkness.... Enter the abundant city of Averno and find out a location of untold riches and untamed lusts, of orgies and drunken revelries, of madness and human corruption. This is a decaying metropolis of wizards and warlocks, where old crones spin webs of cruelty and deceit, and hell lurks in a labyrinth of underworld caves. Vergil has come to Averno to uncover the secret of its eternal fires, the center of its prosperity and prominence. But as he explores the interior sancta of this ancient and heartless inferno, he locates, too, the fiery foundation of Poppaea, the stunning partner of the city's most important Magnates. With this forbidden pleasure comes forbidden knowledge, and Vergil is drawn into an internet of intrigue that threatens to turn the terrible ability of Averno against him. For centuries, the lords of the town have thrived on the bloody sacrifice of their own people. Now they may be determined to add one more name to the scrolls of Averno's useless...and to cast Vergil, now an outlaw, in to the using pits of the dying empire.
