City of Red Midnight: A Hikayat
Novelette 14,051 words Recommended by 5 award/anthology sources
In this spell-binding tale, a Pakistani storyteller captivates a group of wide-eyed tourists with a nesting doll of interlocked stories about a trickster and a hidden city ruled by the Queen of Red Midnight.
Content warnings 4
abusebody-horrorchild-deathviolence
Quasar links out; the story lives on Tor.com, where the author gets the click.