A librarian is loose… beyond the sandwastes.
Weather: “Hell is Other People” by BANGZZ https://bangzz.bandcamp.com/
The voice of Tamika Flynn is Symphon...
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 sum...
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 s...
2022-04-01 19:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post
What happened to the moon? Who cares.
Listen here.
Illustrat...
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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 a...
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 ...
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 g...
2022-03-15 14:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Auditions are open for "Our Town."
Listen here.
Illustratio...
2022-03-15 13:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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/ 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. ...
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.
... 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)
<... 2022-02-28 13:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Unfortunately, Valentine's Day has happened again.
Listen here.
I...
2022-02-15 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes 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. T...
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/
<... 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
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2022-02-01 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
All people deserve prompt delivery. And all people eventually get what they deserve.
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...
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.ba...
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...
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!
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 quest...
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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 "indivi...
2021-12-28 20:38:00 +0000 UTC View Post