'Avram Davidson's final Vergil Magus novel, The Scarlet Fig, continues the adventures of the wandering mage through an alternate ancient world filled with exotic landscapes, populated by creatures of myth and legend. The manuscript has been edited by Grania Davis and Henry Wessells and this first edition will include afterwords by the editors, an appendix including facsimiles of cards from the Encyclopaedia of Vergil Magus that Avram Davidson compiled during the three decades he worked on the Vergil cycle.