Rite: Short Work

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Rite
US Hardcover Edition
Author	Tad Williams
Illustrator	Mark A. Nelson
Cover artist	Mark A. Nelson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy & Science Fiction
Publisher	Subterranean Press
Publication date	January 2007
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	480 pp (hardcover edition)
ISBN	ISBN 1-59606-066-2 (hardcover edition)

Rite: Short Work (2007) is a short story collection, published in limited edition, by fantasy writer Tad Williams.

It contains short stories and novellas, three teleplays, four nonfiction pieces, and short introductions by Tad Williams to each tale.

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• "Why I Write What I Write"
• "Canard"
• "A Tale from the Book of Regret"
• "Not With a Whimper, Either"
• "Child of an Ancient City" (published earlier as a standalone story)
• "Nonstop"
• "Fish Between Friends"
• "Z Is For..."
• "Re: Dark Destructor"
• "Scent of Trumpets"
• "Stuff that Dreams are Made of"
• "The Author at the End of Time"
• "Go Ask Elric"
• "The Writer's Child"
• "Three Duets for Virgin and Nosehorn"
• "The Happiest Dead Boy in the World"
• Nonfiction
  • "Idiot"
  • "100 Best Horror (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch)"
  • "Six Books by PKD"
  • "Gloriana introduction"
  • "Hugo Ceremony Speech"
• TV Pieces
  • "Cloak, Episode One"
  • "Cloak, Episode Two"
  • "Dogs Versus the World, Episode One"
• "Rite"

v • d • e Works by Tad Williams (bibliography) Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn The Dragonbone Chair (1988) • Stone of Farewell (1990) • To Green Angel Tower (1993) Otherland City of Golden Shadow (1996) • River of Blue Fire (1998) • Mountain of Black Glass (1999) • Sea of Silver Light (2001) Shadowmarch Shadowmarch (2004) • Shadowplay (2007) • Shadowrise (forthcoming) Standalone novels Tailchaser's Song (1985) • Child of an Ancient City (1992) • Caliban's Hour (1994) • The War of the Flowers (2003) Short story collection Rite: Short Work (2007)