A librarian is loose… beyond the sandwastes.
Weather: “Hell is Other People” by BANGZZ https://bangzz.bandcamp.com/
The voice of Tamika Flynn is Symphony Sanders
Transcript available at http://welcometonightvale.co...
2022-04-15 04:00:40 +0000 UTC View Post
(note: read this passage before you listen to the audio file above; i think it'll make more sense if you do. -jeffrey)
Not all of these entries are BEFORE we were Night Vale, of course, and this particular piece I wrote was from summer of 2020. I almost said at the height of the pandemic, but that's not really true. We don't really know where the height of the pandemic was or wil...
2022-04-12 15:26:33 +0000 UTC View PostI started this episode without any idea how I was going to end it. That’s right, this one I straight up Stephen King-ed. I liked the idea of the moon going missing, and I trusted that I would figure out an interesting reason for it having done so. (Incidentally, the title is a direct reference to the John Steinbeck book 2022-04-01 19:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post
What happened to the moon? Who cares.
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2022-04-01 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
What happened to the moon? Who cares.
Weather: “Us in the Woods” by Birds of Fae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH1H79IWliY
Transcript available at http://welcometonightvale.com/transcripts
2022 US / CANADA /...
2022-04-01 04:02:06 +0000 UTC View Postby Jeffrey Cranor
From early on in my writing, I was interested in the things you can't see, can't know, can't understand. I like the suggestion that there are secrets. I like eavesdropping on other people's conversations, not for the lurid details, but for the mundane chitchat that suggests that there MIGHT BE lurid details.
I'm not sure what the term for this is. Subtext? So...
2022-03-23 15:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostBack in the 1990s at the University of Houston, I went to watch an evening with Stephen Sondheim. He was being interviewed by a local theater critic. The interviewer was going mostly in chronological order through Sondheim's works, and when they got to Company, the critic asked if that musical was autobiographical.
Sondheim said no, it wasn't. But insofar as any work by any...
2022-03-15 14:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Auditions are open for "Our Town."
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Auditions are open for "Our Town"
Weather: “Yes This Song Is About You and No, I'm Still Not Over It” by Friends For Sale https://friendsforsale.bandcamp.com/
Transcript available at http://welcometonightvale.com/transcripts 2022-03-15 04:30:18 +0000 UTC View Post
My driving instructor when I was 15 years old gave us a lecture about driving while tired. It's dangerous, but there are some things you can do to keep yourself awake. The most obvious thing is caffeine: diet colas and black coffee, specifically. He recommended avoiding sugar entirely bc it provides a brief rush of energy and then a crash. There's also turning your air conditioner up, especiall...
2022-03-01 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
You're listening to WMCG 1080am in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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2022-03-01 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
You're listening to WMCG 1080am in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
“My Love” by Scarlet Sails https://scarletsails.bandcamp.com/
The voice of Kareem is Adal Rifai.
The voice of Doug is John Patrick Coan.
The voice of Gina is Erin Keif.
(Listen to Adal, JPC, & Erin’s podcast Hey Riddle Riddle ...
2022-03-01 05:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy, y'all! Let's get online again. Together. Talk about snow or airplanes or hiking shoes or night vale. whatever. you know.
See you tonight at 7pm ET.
ZOOM LINK (waiting room in effect till 7pm ET)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/884...
2022-02-28 13:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Unfortunately, Valentine's Day has happened again.
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Sometimes you can't be subtle.
Years ago, I sat down to write an episode about the town of Desert Bluffs merging with the town of Night Vale. It was an episode about movements of people, about the necessity of embracing the stranger. The refugee crisis in Europe was all over the news, and I was faced with an impossible task: how do I write this episode without it seeming like an epi...
2022-02-15 06:06:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Unfortunately, Valentine's Day has happened again.
Weather: “I Went Swimming to the Middle of the Sea” by Raising Cain https://raising-cain.bandcamp.com/
Transcript available at http://welcometonightvale.com/transcripts<...
2022-02-15 05:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe Patreon member pre-sale for The Haunting of Night Vale in Glasgow (September 27, 2022) will open at 9:00 AM (venue local time) tomorrow (2/3). The pre-sale code is: HAUNTED
Once the sale goes live you can purchase tickets here.
Can't wait to see you in Glasgow!<...
2022-02-02 20:24:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe 10% merchandise discount code for all merchandise purchased from TopatoCo in February is: HELICOPTER!
2022-02-01 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
All people deserve prompt delivery. And all people eventually get what they deserve.
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There's a fine line between writing a Night Vale episode and writing a 2500-word short story narrated by Cecil Baldwin. Honestly a lot of our episodes are just that: short stories of horror, humor, or general absurdity. And "The Delivery Man" fits this as well.
Perhaps the more cynical term for this is a "one-off" or "filler" episode. I hate the term "filler" because it suggests that the ...
2022-02-01 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
All people deserve prompt delivery. And all people eventually get what they deserve.
Weather: “Goodnight Dandelion” by Space Cowboy Newt https://spacecowboynewt.bandcamp.com/
Transcript available at http://welcometonightvale....
2022-02-01 05:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostI'm surprised I haven't put this little play on here yet. I looked through the Patreon archives, and it seems I have not done so, not at all. It's a pretty important piece of pre-Night Vale history. Joseph and I met in 2009, when he did a workshop with the Neo-Futurists. And I became a pretty big fan of his writing style.
He came to a lot of our shows, volunteering in the box office...
2022-01-26 14:22:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor answer your questions about what's up with the TV adaptation, why a dark planet lit by no sun, and how's fatherhood going so far.
hey friends! it's been too long. let's do another hang-out! we decided to mix it up a bit and try a late night event. idk. let's see how that goes.
so mark your calendars for Wednesday, January 19th at 9pm ET!
see you soon!
ZOOM LINK (waiting room in effect til 9pm ET)
Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor answer your questions about what's up with the TV adaptation, why a dark planet lit by no sun, and how's fatherhood going so far.
2022-01-11 16:18:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe're recording our behind the scenes patreon bonus episode tomorrow, so it's your last chance to ask us questions. This will be me (Joseph) and Jeffrey answering, and we're happy to talk about whatever you're curious about. If you gave us a question in the earlier post, no need to repeat it, we'll grab those ones too.
Thanks!
2022-01-06 23:20:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe 10% merchandise discount code for all merchandise purchased from TopatoCo in January is: HELLO2022
2022-01-01 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post[Content warning: talking below about death; mostly philosophically, but if you're kind of wanting to think about upbeat things right now, maybe come back to this post later.)
An idea I come back too pretty regularly in my writing is "individual apocalypse." In science fiction (and even in real world news), there's a lot of focus on The End of Times. And I don't wish to downplay that. But...
2021-12-28 20:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post