Joseph Fink lives in the Hudson River Valley with his wife. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling adult novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale. Halloween Moon is his first novel for children. Jeffrey Cranor cowrites the Welcome to Night Vale and Within the Wires podcasts. He also cocreates theater and dance pieces with choreographer/wife Jillian Sweeney. They live in New York.
""The book is charming and absurd - think "This American Life"
meets "Alice in Wonderland."--Washington Post
"The charms of 'Welcome to Night Vale' are nearly impossible to
quantify. That applies to the podcast, structured as community
radio dispatches from a particularly surreal desert town, as well
as this novel, written by the podcast's co-creators, Joseph Fink
and Jeffrey Cranor."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Welcome to Night Vale lives up to the podcast hype in every way.
It is a singularly inventive visit to an otherworldly town that's
the stuff of nightmares and daydreams."--BookPage
"Fink and Cranor's prose hints there's an empathetic humanity
underscoring their well of darkly fantastic situations. . . . the
book builds toward a satisfyingly strange exploration of the
strange town's intersection with an unsuspecting real
world."--Los Angeles Times
"Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel is easily enjoyed on its
own terms - even for those who are new to the town of Night Vale -
largely because the storytelling shines so brightly on the level of
its individual parts."--Vox
"Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel masterfully brings the
darkly hilarious, touching and creepy world of the podcast into the
realm of ink and paper."--Asbury Park Press
"Welcome To Night Vale brings its eponymous desert town to
to vivid life. . . . 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."--Wil
Wheaton
"All hail the glow cloud as the weird and wonderful town of Night
Vale brings itself to fine literature. . . . A fantastic addition
with a stand-alone tale of the mysterious desert town that also
offers loyal listeners some interesting clues about the nature of
the place."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"As a fan of Welcome to Night Vale, Jeffrey Cranor and
Joseph Fink have delighted me with stories that are clever,
twisted, beautiful, strange, wonderful, and sweet. This book does
all of that and more. I think this might be the best book I've read
in years."--Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the
Wind
"Brilliant, hilarious, and wondrously strange. I'm packing up and
moving to Night Vale!"--Ransom Riggs, author of the #1 New York
Times bestselling Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar
Children
"Co-creators of the popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast,
successfully expand the mythology of their strange desert town.
Fans will find it refreshing to see Night Vale from different
perspectives . . . but knowledge of the podcast isn't required to
follow the story."--Publishers Weekly
"Emotionally compelling and superbly realized. This seductive,
hilarious book unfolds at the moment when certain quiet responsible
people find they must risk everything on behalf of love, hope, and
understanding. Not a single person who reads this book will be
disappointed."--Deb Olin Unferth, author of Revolution and
Vacation
"Take Conan's Hyborea, teleport it to the American Southwest, dress
all the warriors in business casual and hide their swords under the
floorboards -- that's Night Vale: absurd, magical, wholly
engrossing, and always harboring some hidden menace."--John
Darnielle, author of Wolf in White Van
"They've done the unthinkable: merged the high weirdness and
intense drama of Night Vale to the pages of a novel that is even
weirder, even more intense than the podcast."--Cory Doctorow,
author of Little Brother and co-editor of Boing Boing
"This is the novel of your dreams. . . . A story of misfit family
life that unfolds along the side streets, back alleys and
spring-loaded trap doors of the small town home you'll realize
you've always missed living in. When it says 'welcome, ' it's
mandatory. You belong here."--Glen David Gold, author of Carter
Beats the Devil and Sunnyside
"This small town full of hooded figures, glowing clouds,
cryptically terrifying public policies, and flickering realities
quickly feels more like home than home. . . . There is nothing like
Night Vale, in the best possible way."--Maureen Johnson, author of
13 Little Blue Envelopes and The Name of the Star
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