Welcome to Night Vale is a 2015 absurdist supernatural mystery novel by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, based on their popular podcast of the same name.[1] It was first published through Harper Perennial in the United States and Orbit Books in the United Kingdom.
Unlike the podcast, the novel is narrated from an omniscient viewpoint that follows teenage pawn-shop owner Jackie Fierro and PTA treasurer Diane Crayton as they investigate two mysteries in Night Vale that bring their lives closer together. The audiobook is narrated by Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, Thérèse Plummer, and Dan Bittner.
The novel received positive reviews and was a bestseller upon its release. It is set within the canon of the podcast and was followed up with the episode "An Epilogue". Two more Night Vale novels, It Devours! and The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, were released in the following years, although they followed different stories and characters.
Synopsis
In the small desert town of Night Vale, where the supernatural and bizarre are commonplace, a mysterious man in a tan jacket has been giving people slips of paper that say "King City" on them, and are unable to be removed from the hands of those who accept them.