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Child of an Ancient City1992 · novella · with Nina Kiriki Hoffman
An illustrated novella (1992), co-written with Nina Kiriki Hoffman: an Arabian-Nights-style frame tale of a caravan on a haunted road, stalked by a vampyr, in which storytelling itself becomes the only weapon against the dark. A small, ornate jewel between Williams's big epics.
governor · David Lee Wise (ROOT0)
instance · AVAN (locked)
subject · Child of an Ancient City · CAC · by Tad Williams
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The Books
web-verified — US first editions
- Child of an Ancient City1992an illustrated novella with Nina Kiriki Hoffman — a vampyr framed in Arabian-Nights storytelling
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The Caravan & the Haunted Road — an Arabian-Nights frame
A caravan crossing a haunted road, telling tales story-within-a-story to outlast the night.
The Vampyr — the thing on the road
The bloodless hunter at the heart of the frame-tale — dread told the old way, as a story to keep the dark at bay.
A Collaboration — with Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Williams's 1992 novella, written with Nina Kiriki Hoffman — small, ornate, and illustrated.
“A caravan, a haunted road, and a vampyr held off by stories — the old way of keeping the dark at bay, told as a jewel between epics.”
Catalogued, not owned. Child of an Ancient City and its world are © Tad Williams (and co-authors where noted); catalogued personifications under the DLW standard — render-not-invent, commentary not endorsement. Bibliography & rosters dual-agent web-verified.