Joseph fink as teddy williams, the owner of the desert flower bowling alley and arcade fun complex. Welcome to night vale novel brings the podcast to your. Welcome to night vale is a 2015 novel based on the popular welcome to night vale podcast created by joseph fink and jeffrey cranor, who also wrote the. Joseph fink created the welcome to night vale and alice isnt dead podcasts. Wtnv welcome to night vale wtnv novel wtnv the novel welcome to night vale novel welcome to night vale the novel. Fink and cranor, cocreators of the popular welcome to night vale podcast, successfully expand the mythology of their strange desert town. The welcome to night vale podcast is described by the telegraph as a cultural phenomenon, the guardian calls it extremely addictive and it has topped over twentythree million worldwide downloads since its first episode aired in 2012. Read a sample read a sample read a sample read a sample read a sample read a sample enlarge book cover audio excerpt. Night vale welcomes readers the creators of the popular podcast welcome to night vale are now telling their tales of a. He could be human, but his powers and general oddness make it unclear. Welcome to night vale novel sticks too closely to the.
Fink and cranors thoughtprovoking second novel tied in to the paranormal podcast welcome to night vale also the title of the first book examines how religion and science work in a town th. Chelsey and i are super excited to share this project that we have been collaborating on. Unlike the podcast, the welcome to night vale novel is not told solely through cecil palmers community radio show. The audiobook version of the story is narrated by cecil baldwin, dylan marron, retta, therese plummer, and dan bittner. A large focus of the book is cult of the smiling god, which has played a role in many wtnv stories. Diane will move heaven and earth if she thinks josh is in serious trouble. A novel by joseph fink and jeffrey cranor, a new tale in the night vale universe first introduced in the popular podcast. It might be time to welcome night vale to tv screens. Cecil baldwin as cecil gershwin palmer, the narrator of the podcast and the host of night vales.
The podcast has earned an enormous following by taking the mundane format of community radio and peppering it with constant, barely explained references to the horrors that lurk in the fictional desert town where. The welcome to night vale novel is available for preorder now and will be released on october 20th. The fifth group looked at each other, shrugged, and plopped down their stuff, thus marking the beginning of night vale. Praise for welcome to night vale this is the novel of your dreams. A novel expands the universe of the podcast as we follow two women, diane crayton and jackie fierro, whose already weird lives get turned upside down when. As our first year at animation college is coming to a close.
Four groups of settlers had come to the site of night vale then left. So, overall, the welcome to night vale novel wasnt what i was hoping it would be as fan and as a general lover of books. It was released in hardcover, ebook and audiobook read by cecil baldwin on 20 october 2015. Welcome to night vale starters guide welcome to welcome to night vale, a twicemonthly fiction podcast from the town of night vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. From the creators of the wildly popular welcome to night v. Welcome to night vale is a twicemonthly podcast that purports to be a local public radio broadcast from the cosmically disturbed town of night vale, located somewhere in the desert, somewhere in america. In the last book your protagonists were the mother of a. Overall though, i just couldnt 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 didnt feel like that much was done. Glen david gold, author of carter beats the devil and sunnyside. Welcome to night vale, the podcast thats like a local. Episodes are typically 20 to 30 minutes long, with heavy themes of surreal humor and horror. Mysterious hooded figures assemble at the dog park. Diane crayton is a single mother whos lately been feeling pressure from her shapeshifting son. Welcome to night vale, the podcast thats like a local news twin peaks news updates from a fictional town have become a mustlisten for a fanbase craving their.
Night vale is supposed to be a small town, right, where everyone knows everyone. Six book recommendations from the creators of welcome to. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel. A friendly but terrifying and comic but dark and glittering but bleak story of misfit family life that unfolds along the side streets, back alleys, and springloaded trapdoors of the small town home youll realize youve always missed living in. How the welcome to night vale writers turned their podcast.
Welcome to night vale podcast creators talk show, comics. Welcome to night vale by joseph fink, jeffrey cranor. Welcome to night vale is a twicemonthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of night vale, featuring local weather, news. A deal is moving forward between the popular podcast series welcome to night vale and network fx to adapt the podcast series into a tv show. The welcome to night vale novel is full of golden lines but this is one of the best.
In this novel, you chose to have your main character come from outside of night vale. Welcome to night vale is a twicemonthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of night vale. Welcome to night valebrilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. Night vale is a town that provides far more questions than answers, mostly about angels and mountains and other things that may or may not exist.
Perhaps no book has ever begged to be listened to rather than read as much as welcome to night vale, joseph fink and jeffrey cranors novel based on their podcast of the same name. Welcome to night vale is filled with bizarre yet cool characters. It seems like it really wants to do the lovecraftian nameless horrors thing but so much of it ends up as nonsequitur. Welcome to night vale is not only one of the biggest success stories for the podcasting era, its also one of the strangest. Unlike the podcast, the novel is narrated from an omniscient viewpoint that follows jackie fierro, the owner of night vales pawn shop, and diane crayton, the treasurer of the towns pta. Welcome to night vale is a twicemonthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of night vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the sheriffs secret police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. I tried, but i just couldnt enjoy welcome to night vale. Fan art, cosplays, episode discussion, whatever you want, as. Abby adriano copiello agatha oglivy alondra ortiz angels. Plotwise, its lovely to follow characters for much longer than a podcast episodeand see. The sheriffs secret police hover in black helicopters. One of the two protagonists of the welcome to night vale novel, along with jackie fierro.
Mostly void, partially stars and the great glowing coils of the universe. Seeing it happen over and over again simply outweighed the enjoyable parts. In this ordinary little town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life, the lives of two women, with two mysteries, are about to converge. This would bring the weird world of night vale, which has existed only in audio and novel form, to small screens everywhere. Night vale is the place where all conspiracy theories are true. I loved the first novel welcome to night vale and i loved this one just as much, although not quite.
Welcome to night vale audiobook by joseph fink, jeffrey. He is an important character in the welcome to night vale novel, which features much of his backstory and serves as the conclusion to his story arc. Early settlers of night vale included peaceloving imperialist conquerors and religious leaders who wore soft meats. It devours inside the new welcome to nite vale book syfy. Welcome to night vale a novel joseph fink, jeffrey cranor. Captainbandwidth published on july 04, 2015 35 responses 7 4.
The novel follows diane crayton, whose shapeshifting. Tried to lie to josh to tell him that she was dating a female coworker. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of the faceless old woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood in the early 19th century, her rise in the criminal underworld of europe. Annie savage as diane crayton, the treasurer of the night vale pta and the coprotagonist of the welcome to night vale novel. The writers, jeffrey cranor and joseph fink, will be accompanying the books release with a tour where you can meet them and try to steal their powers, or just get a signature, whatever it is you do when you meet a writer you admire. Authors joseph fink and jeffrey cranor present a story that follows two of night vales residents diane, an unassuming office worker with a shapeshifter for a son, and jackie, a 19 year old pawn shop owner. A new pageturning mystery about science, faith, love and belonging, set in a friendly desert community where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are commonplace parts of everyday life. From the new york times bestselling authors of welcome to night vale and it devours. When night vale creator and cowriter joseph fink began posting the. The book focuses on two minor characters from the podcast. Over the past two years, welcome to night vale has become the biggest podcast online, hitting the top downloads on itunes ahead of. A novel is the first novel in the night vale series based off the popular podcast of the same name written by joseph fink and jeffrey cranor.
Night vale is a compelling and strange place, filled with odd people, secret service agents, shapeshifting teenagers, invisible farms, and the glow cloud. The thinness of night vales characters is actually one of its running gags, with various denizens of the town referred to as intern dana, carlos. The night vale book will feature both new characters and beloved favourites from the show. The popular podcast welcome to night vale has ventured into the literary world with its first novel. Welcome to night vale is a spinoff novel based on the podcast of the same name. Harper perennial 5 96 0 summary 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.
68 656 700 1388 373 1522 1143 425 1000 1623 266 749 1674 614 1066 819 1067 895 574 843 1616 196 1101 67 827 1256 524 1085 724 671 1589 840 598 768 410 1047 789 500 1013