Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel

Joseph Fink · Jeffrey Cranor

Oct 2015 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

A Waterstones Paperback of the Year and New York Times Bestseller
Based on the no. 1 Podcast

WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE . . . a friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful, and mysterious lights pass overhead while its citizens pretend to sleep. It's a town like your town, with a city hall, a bowling alley, a diner, and a radio station reporting all the news that's allowed to be heard. It might be more like your town than you'd like to admit.

In this ordinary town where ghosts, aliens and government conspiracies are parts of everyday life, the lives of two women, with two mysteries, are about to converge.

From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an original mystery of appearances and disappearances about the ways we all struggle to find ourselves, no matter where we live.

Ratings and reviews

Read it when it first came out. Really wanted to like it after loving the podcast so much but a huge disappointment. Central characters were not at all likeable or engaging; much loved characters from the podcast were shoehorned in in a dull, episodic fashion; completely underwhelming 'revelation' about the previously enticingly mysterious man in the tan jacket. Left me with a feeling that they tried to do too much too soon with the wealth of high quality material available and ended up achieving very little.

Reads like a poorly written fan script! Big fan of the podcast but this was a huge letdown. Really badly written from a technical point of view. I appreciate they clearly do not write novels, but given the freshness of the podcast, extremely surprised how dull the characters and narrative were. Anyone who tells you they are a fan of the show, and that this is great, should be re-educated by the sheriffs' secret police. I'm not annoyed at this purchase, just rather sad that something I hoped would be enthralling, was in fact unquestionably underwhelming.

Love it and the podcast but would like to see the live shows up on Google play please

About the author

Joseph Fink created and co-writes the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, novel and touring live show. In his mid-twenties he started Commonplace Books, producing two collections of short works which he edited at his office job when his boss wasn't looking. He is from California but doesn't live there anymore.

Jeffrey Cranor co-writes the hit podcast, novel and touring live show Welcome to Night Vale. He has also written more than one hundred short plays with the New York Neo-Futurists, co-wrote and co-performed a two-man show about time travel with Joseph, and collaborated with choreographer (also wife) Jillian Sweeney to create three full-length dance pieces. Jeffrey lives in New York State.