"The Weaver in the Vault" is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith as part of his Zothique cycle, and first published in the January 1934 issue of Weird Tales.

According to Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography (1978) by Donald Sidney-Fryer, "The Weaver in the Vault" was first published in the January 1934 issue of Weird Tales.

The three find their task before them arduous as Famorgh is requested by his queen Lunalia, a princess of the desert Xylac; when other mummies would do [non sequitur].

Weak and unable to escape, he discovers an orb that draws power from the dead floating from the chasms.

In the 1981 book Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers, Will Murray noted the story as "the weird doom of two individuals who desecrate the tomb.