Avram Davidson

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  • Bibliography:
    30 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1958
  • Latest Book:
    April 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Vergil Magus

1 - The Phoenix and the Mirror (Apr-1983)
2 - Vergil in Averno (1987)
3 - The Scarlet Fig: Or, Slowly Through a Land of Stone (Aug-2012)

Book List in Order: 30 titles

  • Or All the Seas With Oysters

    • / Science Fiction
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    Fantastic creations, out of time, space, and mind! Past and present intermingle in these spellbinding stories; reality and illusion rub shoulders .. . and the results are terrifyingly logical and utterly incredible!...

  • Joyleg

    Wildside Press, 2000. Print-on-demand re-issue. Originally serialized in "Fantastic Stories of Imagination," March and April 1962. Amusing novel of a man living deep in Appalachia, made immortal by a special brew he concocts....

  • Big Sam

    in Alchemy & Academe

    ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...

  • The Phoenix and the Mirror

    Vergil Magus - 1

    Inspired by the legends of the Dark Ages, The Phoenix and the Mirror is the story of the mighty Vergil-not quit the Vergil of our history books (the poet who penned The Aeneid), but the Vergil conjured by by the medieval imagination: hero, alchemist,...

  • Vergil in Averno

    Vergil Magus - 2

    He was a Master in Arts Magical, but not yet Incantor et Magus Now Vergil Magus, the powerful sorcerer-poet, returns in the long-awaited prequel to Avram Davidson's bestselling novel of fable and magic, The Phoenix and the Mirror . Here, Vergil's ...

  • The Ogre

    in Neanderthals: Isaac Asimov's Wonderful Worlds of Science Fiction #6

  • Marco Polo and the Sleeping Beauty

    In thirteenth-century China the Polo brothers--Marco, Niccolo, and Maffeo--request permission from Kublai Khan to return to Venice, but the aging ruler requires that they first bring him a legendary immortal princess...

  • The Boss in the Wall: A Treatise on the House Devil

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    Professor Vlad Smith is on a terrifying quest, one that will take him from the halls of our most hallowed institutions to the most run-down of old houses in blighted neighborhoods. A mysterious committee, shredded yellowed newspapers, a daguerrotype ...

  • Investigations of Avram Davidson

    Collected here for the first time are Davidson's remarkable mystery tales, including: the 1840s murder investigations of New York's chief constable, Jacob Hays; a sinister lesson in New England thrift; a bride who disappears on her wedding day; a sla...



  • The Avram Davidson Treasury

    Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his wonderful stories to pulp magazines. They are wonderful.

    Now his estate and his friends have b...

  • Clash of Star-Kings

    Set during the reign of the Aztecs in Mexico, two alien forces, dormant for centuries, enter a confrontation on a remote mountain that will decide Earth's fate. The Great Old Ones benevolently ruled before the cruel Aztecs were shaped by the Huitzil,...

  • The Island Under the Earth

    Earthy, hot-tempered Captain Stag followed a simple man's quest; Tabnath Lo the trader was driven by obsessions; the enigmatic augurs Castegor and Gortecas manuervered toward secret ends; and around them all the Sixlimbed Folk massed in hatred and pl...

  • The Kar-Chee Reign and Rogue Dragon

  • Masters of the Maze

    Between the worlds and across the eons runs the Maze—a pathway to all space and time.Its Masters know its secret and guard it—but now the monstrous Chulpex are using it to swarm across the galaxy and ravage Earth.Only one man, chosen by the...

  • Peregrine: Primus

  • Ursus of Ultima Thule

    The BearSwarthy, hairy, ostracized by others of his tribe, Arnten set off to lead a life of proud an lonely independence in his primitive world of Thule—Ultima Thule—where med huddled in animal skins against the arctic cold, and used crude ...

  • Rork!

    RORK! RORK! RORK! RORK! Ran Lomar wanted only to be left alone--to get away from it all. That's why he volunteered for duty on Pia 2, the most remote, isolated world in the Galaxy. His assignment was simple. The problem on Pia 2 was redwing, a ...

  • The Enemy of My Enemy

    Jerrod Northi, pirate and rogue, is desperate for the Craftsman to transform his appearance. It costs 100,000 units, steep for even Northi to pay, but because of his powerful enemies he'll find a way. Since being attacked by deadly leeris, he knows t...

  • Peregrine: Secundus



  • Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven

    The complete collection of the Jewish tales of this master-of -science fiction, including two never-before published stories. Provides an extensive biography of the author, who died in 1993, and symposium of the leading science fiction authors who di...

  • The Other Nineteenth Century

    A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century

    Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This ...

  • Mutiny in Space

    "MUTINY IN SPACE began as a novella entitled ""Valentine's Planet,"" which appeared in the August 1964 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow. ""To space opera of the time, the character of the captain was as important as that of the king was to Shakespeare. He...

  • Limekiller

    COLLECTED HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME, AVRAM DAVIDSON'S SIX LIMEKILLER STORIES CREATE A RICH AND COLORFUL WORLD WHERE THE MAGICAL AND INEXPLICABLE COEXIST WITH THE OUTBOARD MOTOR AND THE ESCALATION OF THE AMERICAN WAR IN VIETNAM....

  • Adventures in Unhistory

    * Where did Sinbad Sail? * Who Fired the Phoenix ? * The Boy Who Cried Werewolf * The Great Rough Beast * Postscript on Prester John * The Secret of Hyperborea * What Gave All Those Mammoths Cold Feet? And many more--fictional? autho...

  • Rogue Dragon

    • Rogue Dragon is the latest addition to the growing New Classics of the Fantastic library, a series dedicated to bringing great Sci-fi stories to a new generation of readers.
    • Jon-Joras came to Earth to oversee arrangements for a dra...

  • The Kar-Chee Reign

    Earth is flat, empty, weary, and bare.Her children, too, had left her, all but a few who lived peacefully off the land. And then came the Kar-Chee, to crack Earth open and suck out what remained of her richness, threatening the twilight of th old pla...

  • The Scarlet Fig: Or, Slowly Through a Land of Stone

    Vergil Magus - 3

    The Last Manuscript of a MasterIt began with an accident, as if Fate had a plan for Vergil Magus . . . After his trials in the Very Rich City of Averno but before his crowning achievement of a certain magic mirror, the great sorcerer and alchemist fi...

  • Beer! Beer! Beer!

    A young Avram Davidson would have been seven years old at the time, when prohibition was the law of the land and beer barons like Dutch Schultz sold illegal alcohol to the public. In 1962 Avram wrote Beer Like Water, which was part of a book of David...

  • AD 100: Volume I

    VOLUME ONE In honor of Avram Davidson's 100th birthday, we have compiled the AD 100 Collection: a compilation of 100 of his previously unpublished and uncollected stories. This two-volume collection aims to showcase the breadth and depth of Davidson'...



  • AD 100: Volume II

    VOLUME TWO In honor of Avram Davidson's 100th birthday, we have compiled the AD 100 Collection: a compilation of 100 of his previously unpublished and uncollected stories. This two-volume collection aims to showcase the breadth and depth of Davidson'...

Award-Winning Books by Avram Davidson

Or All the Seas With Oysters
1958 Hugo Award -- Short Story


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Avram Davidson has published 30 books.

Avram Davidson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, AD 100: Volume I, was published in April 2023.

The first book by Avram Davidson, Or All the Seas With Oysters, was published in January 1958.

Yes. Avram Davidson has 1 series.
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