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Welcome to Night Vale
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, Thérèse Plummer, Dan Bittner
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Performed by Welcome to Night Vale podcast narrator Cecil Baldwin and special guests Dylan Marron, Retta, Thérèse Plummer, and Dan Bittner, with music by Disparition.
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.
"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)
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 deerskin 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.
What the critics say
"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)
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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- MTG Fan
- 2020-09-17
From a fan of Welcome to Nightvale
This is a biased review from a person who has listened to a lot of Welcome to Nightvale before listening to this book, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
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.
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- Jason McGill
- 2020-07-14
Weird at its best
Huge fan of the podcast and this didn't disappoint. If you like word storytelling set in a fun and horrorish way. This is right up your alley.
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- Josh Ruberg
- 2020-06-11
Just what I needed in a chaotic time
I'm a pretty straight thinker. Well, my thoughts are straight enough from my perspective and probably awkwardly angled from anyone else's, and probably multi-coloured. At least I hope so. Anyways.... this provided me an amazing break from serious thinking and general rigidity. like a breath of fresh air. Story gets a bit convoluted but if you know the subject matter that won't surprise you.
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- Noah Doucette
- 2018-09-30
Esoteric, and Enrapturing
Unsurprisingly Night Vale, this book is exactly like an extended and more fleshed out episode of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, it's oddities and wholesome view of the world we can never understand come, as they say, with the amorphous ungulate.
If you are a fan of the show you will find nothing but grade A material, wonderful performances, and great characters. If Night Vale is not your favorite thing, but you still enjoy it you may find the novel's more linear, coherent, and focused narrative more to your liking.
The Story is intriguing, and well written, the performance is spot on and the world is as rich, and as riddled with the strange and unusual as it always is. Cannot recommend this book to Night Vale fans enough!
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- HeyFan
- 2018-03-23
A story of wonder and mystery! defiantly worth It!
if you're the type of person who loves Dr who or a strange fiction set in a world that seems to odd to be true, then you'll love this book! Hard a great time getting to know the residence of night vale and their peculiar town, every chapter was another addition to an every expanding world of wonder. defiantly pick this title up!
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- Olivia
- 2017-12-14
loved it!
I have been listening to Nightvale radio since 2012 and I have loved it all that time. I wanted to get the audio book right when it came out but that wasn't possible at the time. I was finally able to get it and it was as wonderful as I had hoped. Cecil Baldwin's performance was as masterful as expected and I can't think of any better way to experience this novel than through his narration.
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- 123FakeStreet
- 2017-11-24
Wonderful book, from a wonderful universe!
Any fan of the podcast would love this book, though most of the book has an omnipresent narrator, instead of Cecil Palmer, though there are Cecil Palmer broadcast smattered throughout. Cecil Balwin, as always, does an excellent job of narrating, both as Palmer and omnipresently. ;)
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- Sarah
- 2023-08-27
Heartwarming and weird
I've been a listener for years, but I hadn't gotten around to listening to this yet. it's so awesome to understand the why of Josh and really get to feel that family vibe
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- James
- 2023-05-04
Transformative
I loved this, I love the characters, I love the community. I laughed, I was.scared, I screamed into the void. 10/10 recommend.
Also, I have now listened to it... 5 times XD
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-04-20
Great listen
I love this podcast, and the this book was fantastic. Cecil does an amazing job narrating.
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- Christopher
- 2016-04-30
This is so good, but
Would you listen to Welcome to Night Vale again? Why?
Probably. There are a lot of details and fan service for lovers of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Welcome to Night Vale?
There is a confrontation toward the end, in fact the climactic confrontation that changes the reader's view of one of the main characters. (Sorry, no spoilers here.)
Any additional comments?
I really wanted to give this title 5 stars. The performance is the usual fantastic quality that fans of the podcast have come to expect, though billing the additional narrators when they in fact have less than five minutes of mike time is rather a stretch.
The reason my rating only rises to four stars is that, if this were your first exposure to WNV, it would make a lot less sense than it should. Listeners to the podcast have had eighty-plus episodes to learn about the strangeness of Night Vale and its people. The book/audio production here had a daunting task of bringing NV virgins up to speed, and did not fully succeed in this task. For WNV podcast listeners, this book is fabulous, for people who don't know Night Vale from Desert Bluffs, I might advise you to go back and listen to at least the episodes of the podcast that occur before the book release first.
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- Ian
- 2016-04-28
Some Things Aren't Scalable
What was most disappointing about Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor ’s story?
I had heard a lot about Night Vale, and was really interested in diving into a different style of storytelling. This is a case where what may be great as vignettes just does not translate well to a book. I still want to listen to the shorts, but unless there is a massive repository of inside jokes that I am just not cueing in on, I am not sure why this received such a massively positive response.
Listening to this book was how I imagine I would feel if I wallpapered my house with Dali paintings. Surrealism is great, but more so in small doses as a contrast to reality. Welcome to Night Vale as a book spends most of its energy on reinforcing the idea of how quirky it is, like a trope of a college performance art piece. And like those pieces, I feel like the implied response to this complaint is that I just don't "get it".
I developed no empathy for the characters, and spent most of the book hoping more time would be spent on the news updates or strange happenings. Will still try out the shorts, but probably not anything that requires serious plot/character development from this author.
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- DrinkingDad
- 2018-06-04
This book not for those with a want for sanity
Forced myself to listen to this entire book. The narration was solid. The story and concept felt like a nonstop nonsensical trip on government mandated hallucinogens for the purpose of torture.
Nothing was set in stone, nothing followed its own rules it imposed.
In short, the story felt like a nonstop argument with a four year old making up rules as they went.
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- Christina
- 2015-10-21
Interesting, But Slow Going and Full of In-Jokes
I've enjoyed listening to Welcome to Night Vale (the podcast) up until recently, when it just stopped being about a cooky town and started being about them trying to tell us how weird the town is just so we don't forget. Not the point, though.
If it wasn't for the title of the book, I would have mistaken this for some high schooler's attempt to write a story for English class: full of in-jokes that only his buddies would understand and kind of bland either way.
The first few chapters are pretty slow going. Cecil Baldwin's monotone but relaxing voice is a welcome sign, but hearing him go on and on about one thing for a few sentences was exhausting and pretty aggravating, especially since it rarely had anything to do with the subject at hand. I found myself yelling at my radio (I was listening to it in the car), telling him to "GET ON WITH IT, CECIL!"
It doesn't talk too much about the characters at first, but more about the environment. Normally, not a bad sign, but when your book is based on a podcast that probably not everyone listens to, some of the jokes might go over a few heads. It felt like the authors were trying to emphasize the weirdness of the environment the two women were at than the two women themselves.
It just felt like the authors were trying to say "HEY THIS TOWN IS WEIRD! ISN'T IT WEIRD! THIS IS DIFFERENT FROM YOUR TOWN! DID I TELL YOU IT'S WEIRD?!" instead of letting the reader come to that conclusion gradually. Night Vale's strangeness is not subtle which itself is not a bad thing when presented in the right way, but at times it can just be aggravating.
Overall, it's an okay book. It had it's moments, once the story actually started going, the characters were relatable (to an extent).
Would I recommend it? Ehh, if the other person had listened to the podcast, yes. If not, then no, no I wouldn't. In the end, it's pretty much up to you if you want to listen.
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- Dixie Dome
- 2018-05-21
What's the fuss?
If you like murky, non-sensical, plot-averse ramblings, then this is your book. It may work well as a print experience, but as an audio book, it was downright painful. I kept listening just to see if it would make sense in the end, and it barely did. But what a dreadful experience.
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- SAMA
- 2016-01-27
Really wanted to enjoy this
As a fan of the podcast, I truly wanted to enjoy this book. As it stands, this cannot stand up to the podcast. Maybe 30 minute segments are better to the narrator than a 10+ hour book.
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- Hannah
- 2016-05-22
Maybe a little too much of a good thing
First off, I love the WTNV podcast. I've been listening to it nearly since it started and have even gone to one of their live performances. I'm nearly done with the book, but I do have to say that I really don't like it as much as the podcast. I think part of the appeal of the shorter format is that you only get small snippets of strange things, but here, where we're given lengthy and detailed explanations of townspeople's day-to-day lives, it looses a bit of the magic. It's sort of like seeing the monster for too long or too much in a horror movie -- it ceases to be scary or interesting, it's just a costume or a puppet or a CG model.
That said, there are a lot of good individual moments and concepts, like the flamingos or the initial description of the pawn shop. Cecil's narration is fantastic as always and was the main reason I snapped up the audiobook to begin with.
Overall though, I just couldn't really get that invested in the characters or their problems (which tend to be surprisingly mundane for happening in Night Vale) and despite having a fascinating backdrop (assuming you listen to the podcast) it didn't feel like that much was done with a lot of the major set pieces besides, for example, brief trips to the Moonlight All-Night Diner and the Library.
I feel like maybe a collection of interconnected short stories or something like that might have fit the setting better, especially since that's basically how the podcast is set up.
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- Vernon D. Burt
- 2016-08-10
Suddenly Preachy
its funny for a while, but then suddenly starts preaching on political topics and then goes back to funny. keeps repeating.
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- Jacob
- 2015-10-23
Creep
Unlike the podcast, this story is not world-ending. It's not fatal doom all around. But it is all around, enjoyable. It's not the kind of story that should scare you, but the kind of story that will low-key freak you out, and simultaneously entertain you. It's a moderately creepy story. The best kind of cheese.
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- Zachary Langley
- 2015-10-20
Fantastic, even for the nonFan
Even if you aren't a fan of the free podcast. This Novel is an absolute joy to hear from start to finish
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