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Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel Audiobook
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?New York Times Bestseller
""Hypnotic and darkly funny. . . . Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in."" —The Guardian
“A splendid, weird, moving novel.”— NPR.org
From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves. . . no matter where we live.
Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge.
Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked ""KING CITY"" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels.
Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger and stronger interest in his estranged father, leading to a disaster Diane can see coming, even as she is helpless to prevent it.
Diane's search to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: ""KING CITY"". It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures...if they can ever find it.
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"like the podcast, but a book! weirdly fun, creepy and hilarious"
— Chaloney (5 out of 5 stars)
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“Welcome To Night Vale brings its eponymous desert town to to vivid life…It is as weird and surreal as I hoped it would be, and a surprisingly existential meditation on the nature of time, reality, and the glow cloud that watches over us.”
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“Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I’m packing up and moving to Night Vale!”
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“They’ve done the unthinkable: merged the high weirdness and intense drama of Night Vale to the pages of a novel that is even weirder, even more intense than the podcast.”
— Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author -
“All hail the glow cloud as the weird and wonderful town of Night Vale brings itself to fine literature…A fantastic addition with a stand-alone tale of the mysterious desert town that also offers loyal listeners some interesting clues about the nature of the place.”
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“Cocreators of the popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast, successfully expand the mythology of their strange desert town. Fans will find it refreshing to see Night Vale from different perspectives…but knowledge of the podcast isn’t required to follow the story.”
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“Fans of the wildly popular “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast—and anyone else seeking a suitably spooky tale for Halloween—will relish this extended trip to a strange desert town…Fink and Cranor take their fantastical realm to the next level in a hilariously surreal story.”
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“Hypnotic and darkly funny…Belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King, and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in.”
— Guardian (London)
Awards
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An October 2015 LibraryReads Pick
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A BookPage Top Pick of Fantasy for October 2015
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An AudioFile Editors’ Pick
Welcome to Night Vale Listener Reviews
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Chaya Blatt, 4/26/2021
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Josh Desotell, 12/13/2016
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" Nonsense makes sense if your senseless. "
— confused, 11/14/2015
About the Authors
Joseph Fink created and cowrites the Welcome to Night Vale podcast and touring live show. In his mid-twenties he started Commonplace Books, a very small publishing company, producing two collections of short works which he edited and laid out at his office job when his boss wasn’t looking.
Jeffrey Cranor cowrites—along with Joseph Fink—the hit podcast and touring live show Welcome to Night Vale. He also makes theater and dance. He has written more than 100 short plays with the New York Neo-Futurists, cowrote and coperformed in the two-man show What the Time Traveler Will Tell Us. Jeffrey lives in New York State.
About the Narrators
Marietta Sirleaf, better known as Retta,is an actress and comedian. She has delighted audiences with her performance aptitude and comedy precision and has established herself as a consistent first pick for Hollywood. Retta currently stars as Barbara on the Bravo hit series Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce. Previously Retta spent seven seasons playing the uber beloved office mate Donna Meagle on NBC’s critically acclaimed comedy Parks and Recreation.
Dan Bittner is an actor and voice talent and winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards for audio narration. He has starred on stage and on the screen, in movies such as Men in Black, Adventureland, and the Producers: The Movie Musical. He has also appeared onstage as Macbeth and Sherlock Holmes in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.