Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel - Softcover

Fink, Joseph; Cranor, Jeffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0356504840 ISBN 13: 9780356504841

Publisher: Orbit, 2015

Synopsis

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. She can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City before she herself unravels.
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. 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.

About this title

Review:

A cultural phenomenon that will grab you around the ears, give you strange mental images and have you desperately downloading the next installment - Telegraph Inventive and extremely addictive - Guardian Full of surreal jokes, ghost-story chills, the narrative drive of old radio serials, and an undercurrent of existential horror - Independent As hilarious as it is macabre - Time Out

Book Description:

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. The Telegraph calls Night Vale a 'cultural phenomenon' and Time Out says it's 'as hilarious as it is macabre'. For fans of Stephen King, Serial, Twin Peaks and of course the number one iTunes podcast itself.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbit
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0356504840
• ISBN 13: 9780356504841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416