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Welcome to Night Vale
Night Vale Presents
Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 348

Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, where every conspiracy theory is true. Turn on your radio and hide. Never listened before? It's an ongoing radio show. Start with the current episode, and you'll catch on in no time. Or, go right to Episode 1 if you wanna binge-listen.
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Apple Podcasts
🇨🇦 Canada - scienceFiction
27/07/2025#2🇨🇦 Canada - fiction
27/07/2025#5🇬🇧 Great Britain - scienceFiction
27/07/2025#3🇬🇧 Great Britain - fiction
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27/07/2025#39🇺🇸 USA - scienceFiction
27/07/2025#2🇺🇸 USA - fiction
27/07/2025#5🇫🇷 France - scienceFiction
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Spotify
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See all- http://robwilsonwork.com
465 shares
- http://nightvalepresents.com/
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- http://welcometonightvale.com/
419 shares
- http://patreon.com/welcometonightvale/
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- https://patreon.com/TheBestWorst
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- http://twitter.com/NightValeRadio
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- https://twitter.com/NightValeRadio
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- https://twitter.com/nightvaleradio
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253 - instructions for folding
dimanche 1 septembre 2024 • Duration 23:57
These are instructions for folding. Please follow exactly.
Weather: “Clifton“ by Chapter Nineteen
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
The Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game is coming! Crowdfunding launch begins OCT 1!
Sign up for the Night Vale newsletter for good news and recommendations.
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor & Brie Williams
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
252 - Paid Programming
jeudi 15 août 2024 • Duration 24:32
The following is a paid advertisement.
Weather: “Starlit Aether“ by Virtual QSO
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
The Welcome to Night Vale Roleplaying Game is coming! Crowdfunding launch begins OCT 1!
Sign up for the Night Vale newsletter for good news and recommendations.
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor & Brie Williams
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
243 - Lost and Found
vendredi 1 mars 2024 • Duration 22:37
Hopefully we can find everything lost, and reunite everything found.
Weather: “Old Radio“ by Robby Hecht
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Final EU/CAN/US dates of the Night Vale live show. Dates/Cities/Tix
Our newest podcast, UNLICENSED, available now!
Patreon is how we exist! If you can, please help us keep making this show.
Music: Disparition
Logo: Rob Wilson
Written by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor & Brie Williams
Narrated by Cecil Baldwin
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show at welcometonightvale.com
A production of Night Vale Presents.
169 - The Whittler
lundi 1 juin 2020 • Duration 26:09
An old man sits on the steps of the old General Store whistling a lonesome tune.
Weather: “Embroidery Stars” by Carrie Elkin http://carrieelkin.com/
Black Lives Matter. Donate where you can to support social justice initiatives: https://www.thecut.com/2020/05/george-floyd-protests-how-to-help-where-to-donate.html
You can also support the Night Vale Patreon: http://patreon.com/welcometonightvale/
Rescheduled tour dates for 2020: http://www.welcometonightvale.com/live/
Our third novel, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, is out now: http://www.welcometonightvale.com/books/
Music: Disparition http://disparition.band
Logo: Rob Wilson http://robwilsonwork.com
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. http://welcometonightvale.com
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show.
Produced by Night Vale Presents. http://nightvalepresents.com
168 - Secret Blotter
vendredi 15 mai 2020 • Duration 24:28
For the first time ever, the Sheriff's Secret Police has made their blotter public.
Guest writer: Brie Williams
Weather: “Best Friends” by Curtains:
https://curtains.bandcamp.com/
If you can, please support our Patreon:
http://patreon.com/welcometonightvale/
Rescheduled tour dates for 2020:
http://www.welcometonightvale.com/live/
Our third novel, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, is out now:
http://www.welcometonightvale.com/books/
Music: Disparition
http://disparition.info
Logo: Rob Wilson
http://robwilsonwork.com
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin.
http://welcometonightvale.com
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show.
Produced by Night Vale Presents.
http://nightvalepresents.com
167 - Echo
vendredi 1 mai 2020 • Duration 26:38
The pilot has arrived, and so have his passengers. (Part 5 of 5)
Weather: “The Stolen Century” by Ellen Beizer:
http://ellenclairebeizer.com/
If you can, please support our Patreon:
http://patreon.com/welcometonightvale/
Rescheduled tour dates for 2020:
http://www.welcometonightvale.com/live/
Our third novel, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, is out now:
http://www.welcometonightvale.com/books/
Music: Disparition
http://disparition.info
Logo: Rob Wilson
http://robwilsonwork.com
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin.
http://welcometonightvale.com
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show.
Produced by Night Vale Presents.
http://nightvalepresents.com
166 - Delta
mercredi 15 avril 2020 • Duration 22:56
The passengers have been found, or rather, they have found us. (Part 4 of 5)
Weather: “A Prayer for the Sane” by Danny Schmidt
http://dannyschmidt.com
Rescheduled tour dates for 2020:
http://www.welcometonightvale.com/live/
Our third novel, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, is out now:
http://www.welcometonightvale.com/books/
Music: Disparition
http://disparition.info
Logo: Rob Wilson
http://robwilsonwork.com
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin.
http://welcometonightvale.com
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show.
Produced by Night Vale Presents.
http://nightvalepresents.com
165 - Charlie
mercredi 1 avril 2020 • Duration 22:36
Nothing about Charles Rainier's average New England upbringing indicated he would one day be standing in the middle of a desert searching for fugitives from his own Asylum. (Part 3 of 5)
Weather: “Breathe” by Tanja Daub
http://tanjadaub.bandcamp.com
We have rescheduled tour dates and an added Louisville show:
http://www.welcometonightvale.com/live/
Our third novel, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, is out now:
http://www.welcometonightvale.com/books/
Music: Disparition
http://disparition.info
Logo: Rob Wilson
http://robwilsonwork.com
Written by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin.
http://welcometonightvale.com
Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
Check out our books, live shows, store, membership program, and official recap show.
Produced by Night Vale Presents.
http://nightvalepresents.com
Bonus: Excerpt 2 from "The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home"
mardi 24 mars 2020 • Duration 12:26
An excerpt (read by Mara Wilson) of Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor's new novel The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home.
Out today… wherever you get books, or order from some fantastic independent book stores: http://welcometonightvale.com/books.
News about books and tours, and "Our Plague Year"
mardi 17 mars 2020 • Duration 22:19
Joseph has a few things to chat about with you, and then we present the first episode of our new show, Our Plague Year.
Introducing a new kind of current events podcast. An island in a storm of bad headlines. An experiment in public anxiety. Let's get through this year together.
Subscribe at http://ourplagueyear.libsyn.com/ or wherever you get your podcasts.
Written and produced by Joseph Fink
"Don't Look for the Helpers" by Cory Doctorow
"Social Distances" by Nisi Shawl
The song "This Too Shall Pass" by Danny Schmidt
All other music by Joseph Fink
Logo artwork by Jessica Hayworth
A production of Night Vale Presents