Welcome to Night Vale
by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor
Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man. 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.
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, when they were both teenagers. Josh begins showing 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.
REVIEWS...
- "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
- "Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange." --Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- "That's Night Vale: absurd, magical, wholly engrossing, and always harboring some hidden menace." --John Darnielle, author of Wolf in White Van
- "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." --actor/blogger Wil Wheaton
- "[A] small town full of hooded figures, glowing clouds, cryptically terrifying public policies, and flickering realities [...] There is nothing like Night Vale, in the best possible way." --Maureen Johnson, author of 13 Little Blue Envelopes