Welcome to Night Vale (novel)

Welcome to Night Vale
AuthorJoseph Fink
Jeffrey Cranor
Audio read byCecil Baldwin
Dylan Marron
Retta
Thérèse Plummer
Dan Bittner
LanguageEnglish
GenreSupernatural, mystery, surreal comedy, absurdism, horror
PublishedOctober 20, 2015
PublisherHarper Perennial (US)
Orbit Books (UK)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback, large print paperback), e-book, audiobook
Pages416
ISBN0062351427
Followed byIt Devours! 

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. 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.