Welcome to Night Vale
A Novel
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Welcome to Night Vale
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Narrated by:
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Cecil Baldwin
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Dylan Marron
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Retta
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Therese Plummer
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Dan Bittner
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Written by:
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Joseph Fink
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Jeffrey Cranor
?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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Editorial Review
A deep and gloomy setting, a dark and twisting tale, and an array of unusual, not strictly human characters weaving their way through it all: Welcome to Night Vale. Dive headfirst into this dark and mysterious audiobook full of suspense, horror, paranoia, and magic. Welcome to Night Vale merges ghouls, ghosts, shape-shifters, aliens, angels, and government conspiracies in a mystical tale of two converging mysteries. Night Vale, a fictional town in Southwest USA, is the anchoring point for a swirl of characters and strange occurrences that whirl in and out of the narrative, sometimes passing each other by, and sometimes colliding. The novel takes its inspiration from a well loved podcast by the same name and same creators, Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Its main story centres around two women, 19-year-old pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro and PTA treasurer Diane Crayton, as they navigate unfolding mysteries and ghosts of the past. Both a gripping tale of suspense and a tour de force of surrealism and satire, Welcome to Night Vale will pull you deep into its world, and may never fully let you go. Podcast narrator Cecil Baldwin and a full cast of performers lend their voices to the audiobook, accompanied by original music to set the mood and tone. The result is a rich, immersive experience, plunging the listener in the mystical world. An unmissable and unpausable tale, Welcome to Night Vale is sure to enthral any lover of mystery and magic.
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As a new fan of Night Vale I really loved it.
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This book, in my opinion, was amazing. It had ne hooked from start to finish, and left me with thorough mental images of the happenings of what was going on through the story, as if the words warped from just sound to an genuine reality, almost touchable from the unknowable distance.
Having the actual voice of Nightvale, Cecil Baldwin (And the other character voices on this audio book), added a depth to the story that would be hard to capture any other way you would attempt to digest this read, and breathed life into the world within the book.
I may be biased, but I would still attempt to recommend this audio book and the book itself to people if I was asked to recommend a fiction. To those who have read this novel, I would recommend the audio book to enhance and enrich the story that they are already familiar with. It is worth the time, and the money, to listen to this audio book.
From a fan of Welcome to Nightvale
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Just what I needed in a chaotic time
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loved it!
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Probably no surprise, but I think the Welcome to Night Vale novel is most enjoyable in its audiobook incarnation performed by Cecil Baldwin. I had been a bit skeptical. I wasn't convinced a four-hundred page novel or twelve hour audiobook was likely to be any better than any fifteen to twenty minute episode of the podcast. I was pleasantly surprised. I do think that this novel manages to tell a substantial and worthwhile standalone story that contributes to the vibrant colours and rich textures of the town we already know from the podcast, but without being dependent on it.
All the loose threads do come together to make a funky sweater that I would 100% wear ironically. I mean, I would tell people I only wore it ironically, but everybody would be able to tell I had a genuine fondness for it. This novel is charming and manages to find some fresh observations about identity, coming of age, individuality, and community, as any Great American Novel™ must. A lot of its threads come from seeming random or weird-for-the-sake-of-weird starting points, but many are woven into meaningful ends, in the same familiar ways so many aspects of life are meaningless absurdities, but we can choose to make some of them meaningful. And some aspects remain inexplicable or unknowable meaningless nonsense, at least to any one of us. But there is a comfort to the ways we all get to experience these baffling and ridiculous and mundane aspects of life together.
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