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Welcome to Night Vale...

  • 16-01-2014 3:51pm
    #1
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I did a quick search but didn't see any mention of this podcast. This is one of the most Nocturnal Forum things I've heard in a very, very long time.

    http://podbay.fm/show/536258179
    Night Vale Description wrote:
    Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. Turn on your radio and hide. Welcome to Night Vale. (Produced by Commonplace Books. Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin.)


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  • #2
    cyberwolf77
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,852 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


    I think Wil Wheaton appeared on this once


  • #3
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 51,917 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    Welcome To Night Vale, the podcast that's like a local news Twin Peaks
    Mysterious hooded figures in the town square. Inexplicable lights in the sky. Local traffic updates. Welcome To Night Vale might be one of the most popular podcasts in the world, but everything about it remains resolutely odd. It's an unsettling radio drama masquerading as a local community news programme. Imagine the overwhelming cosmic dread of HP Lovecraft, served up in a style not entirely dissimilar to BBC Look North.

    Hypnotic and darkly funny, Welcome To Night Vale belongs to a particular strain of American gothic that encompasses The Twilight Zone, Stephen King and Twin Peaks, with a bit of Tremors thrown in. The setting is a sleepy-yet-creepy desert town where every conspiracy theory is real, but it's not really a big deal; the residents just try to get on with things amid the mayhem and horror.

    "We didn't want to make a podcast that sounded like all the other podcasts we were listening to," explains Joseph Fink who, along with Jeffrey Cranor, has written every episode since Welcome To Night Vale launched in June 2012.

    Good find, Shim ;)

    If you can read this, you're too close!



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