But life in Night Vale is more stressful. It makes me think of Twin Peaks crossed with The Twilight Zone with a bit of Douglas Adams and early Terry Pratchett thrown in.“Look, life is stressful. It’s a town where the mayoral election was between a faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home and a literal five headed dragon. There were three other cars with binoculared, watching women just on that block, and that was light by Night Vale standards.”Night Vale is a strange town somewhere in the American Southwest where government conspiracies, rips in space time, strange hooded figures, and angels (who don’t legally exist) are all every day occurrences. In short, it’s everything I’ve come to expect from Night Vale.“No one cared about a woman staring through binoculars from a parked car. It’s rambling and weird, but also sweet and with its heart in the right place. Welcome to Night Vale is a predictably absurd stand alone novel from the creators of the Welcome to Night Vale podcast. It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures.if they can ever find it. 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.ĭiane'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". And lately Diane's started to see her son's father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton's son, Josh, is moody and also a shape shifter. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels. 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.
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 holding a deer skin suitcase. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. 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. 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 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.
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