Hey y'all, let's have our monthly hangout: Thursday November 20 @ 4pm ET (New York time)! We can talk about Night Vale or we can talk about our favorite European sedans or maybe you'd fancy a chat about the best olives. Whatever you'd like. Just join us. These are always a lot of fun!
ZOOM LINK: (event starts at 4pm ET)
2025-11-19 19:12:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Night Vale writers Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, & Brie Williams answer your questions
Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor, and Brie Williams answer your questions about long, elaborate names of characters, how Steve Carlsberg's casting changed the character completely, and who invented Nulogorsk.
2025-11-19 19:09:13 +0000 UTC View PostStarts today! Head on over to the chat section to join the discussion.
I'm very jet-lagged!
-Joseph
2025-11-17 19:23:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Are you a creature of unimaginable power?
Get yours here.
2025-11-16 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
About halfway through reading Joseph’s script for Locked Library Mystery, I got the idea for this followup episode and started writing it right afterwards, in a (literal) exquisite-corpsey kinda way. I’m pretty sure WikiHow has step-by-step instructions (with pictures) for absolutely every question, from How to Discover Your True Purpose in Life (With Pictures) to How to Burglarize the Louvre (With Pictures). Why should solving a murder be any different? It would be the first place I’d ...
2025-11-15 14:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
You’re well on your way to becoming an amateur homicide investigator.
Weather: "Camelot" by Dessa
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
From the Night Vale tarot cards by Jessica Hayworth.
Find it here.
2025-11-06 15:52:43 +0000 UTC View PostDid this as a thread on bluesky and then realized that I should share it with our patrons as well! I'm also happy to answer any questions or discuss any part of this with you in the comments below.
A difficult thing with being a writer, especially one working on stuff you're releasing yourself or with minimal editorial guidance is: when are you done writing? When is it ready to release? With Nigh...
2025-11-06 00:14:56 +0000 UTC View PostJoseph here. Today Jeffrey wrapped up Piranesi, and so it's time to think about our next book. And for the first time, I thought it would be fun to do a book I haven't read yet. It will also be our first new release book: Will There Ever Be Another You? by Patricia Lockwood.
Patricia is, objectively, a genius. She has an extraordinary command of language and thought. And she is also just r...
2025-11-04 03:44:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Mysteries are the highest form of writing.
Ok, maybe that’s not true, but I’m not convinced it’s wrong either.
A good mystery balances many different elements. The puzzle of the mystery, obviously, although the importance of that varies. Some mysteries are entirely about the puzzle, while others seem to forget there was supposed to be a puzzle until frantically having the culprit confess for no reason at the end because oops I forgot to put a mystery in my mystery (Tana Fren...
2025-11-01 13:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
There has been an impossible murder in a locked room! Also, more importantly, it's the big Turkey Day sale at Ralph's.
Weather: "I Get Hurt" by Victor Jones
The voice of Dana Cardinal is Jasika Nicole
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
The 10% merchandise discount code for all merchandise purchased from TopatoCo in November is
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2025-10-27 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
If you haven't seen it yet... Our brand new All Smiles Eve holiday sweatshirt is now available. Find it here.
2025-10-22 15:10:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Spoilers ahead for episode 276...
I really enjoy doing the single story episode, where we can just tell a short little tale without the formatics of public radio. I also really enjoy football. That's not quite as on display here, at least not directly.
Taking a common sports trope of the outsider kicker who gets thrust into the Big Game and then hits the game-winning field goal is the entire sports plot of this episode. Not really a big deal. Still: go Scorpions! Way to win the d...
2025-10-15 13:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's have a look at sports.
Weather: "The Cyclone" by Al Olender
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
2025-26 TOUR DATES T...
2025-10-15 04:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, let's have our monthly hangout: Tuesday October 14 @ 4pm ET (New York time)! And to celebrate our favorite month, we're bringing on our other co-writer, Brie Williams! Come and chat with Brie (as well as me and Joseph, of course) on zoom about tattoo placement, favorite seltzer flavors, or even Night Vale, if that's your thing!
ZOOM LINK (waiting room in effect till 4pm):
Two new bumper stickers for your car, golf cart, hoverboard... or even a large water bottle.
Find them here.
2025-10-09 12:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
When I was in junior high in the late ‘90s, I discovered old time radio dramas on cassette via my local library (where I was a volunteer book-shelver). The selection was limited to a couple of mystery shows from the 1940s, which I loved, but I eventually tracked down an elderly man in the Midwest who ran a mail order catalog of hundreds of other shows in mass quantity on burned MP3 CDs—horror, thriller, comedy, detective, sci fi—all from the golden age of radio. I was obsessed with thes...
2025-10-01 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
A few years ago, I started dating again, after 20 years of being in a relationship. Try to imagine, if you will, the difference between dating in 2001 and 2021. Way back in the day, I used Yahoo! Personals, and I felt really weird about it. Like, who on earth uses the internet to find people to go out with?
But I managed a couple of uneventful dates back then. Uneventful, meaning no deep connections came from those nights out, but also no unnecessary drama. Years later, there's the sle...
2025-10-01 13:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Our top story: It's date night!
Weather: "Without a Sound" by Mintlights
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Episode transcripts 2025-10-01 04:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This new design by Jessica Hayworth ponders... what happens when you think inside the box?
Order your favorite color by 10/6. After the pre-sale is over, only the most popular color will be available in the store.
Also available as a fitted t-shirt.
2025-09-30 17:38:31 +0000 UTC View PostWe'll be reading PIRANESI, by Susanna Clarke. Hooray for the minotaur!
The schedule of discussion will be as follows:
Oct 12: Parts 1 & 2
Oct 19: Part 3
Oct 26: Parts 4 & 5
Nov 2: Parts 6 & 7
Looking forward to talking about this one with you all!
2025-09-29 14:55:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe 10% merchandise discount code for all merchandise purchased from TopatoCo in October is
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2025-09-27 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, let's talk! Today at 4pm ET / 1pm PT. Come and chat with me and Joseph on zoom about barbecue grill brands, hand lotion season, or even Night Vale, if that's your thing!
Join us right here at 4pm New York time.
ZOOM LINK (waiting room in effect till 4pm):
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81503625055?pwd=O1UvXWqAEyh8NN4bSMRMaHJRYrob1X.1
The outline for this episode was a bit loose. I thought a Night Vale HOA was a fun writing prompt for myself and checked that it hadn’t been done yet (always a crucial first step), then just started writing. My first instinct was to make the HOA ridiculously restrictive, but I’ve done mega-rules-oriented-entities in Night Vale before, and I also rarely trust my first instincts since “first” usually means the obvious choice. So I discarded that and went with the opposite (also a fun wr...
2025-09-15 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The Homeowners' Association has arrived.
Weather: "Thorns" by Nico Rey
Original episode art by Jessica Hayworth
Episode transcripts
2025-26 TOUR...
2025-09-15 04:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We are so excited to be back on the road again and wanted to share a few fun pictures.
2025-09-11 15:13:35 +0000 UTC View PostLet's talk books!
The voice of Tamika Flynn is Symphony Sanders
2025-09-08 16:26:30 +0000 UTC View PostJoin us over in the chat section for a discussion of the first 5 chapters of Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats).
I love this book and haven't read it in 11 years, so let's talk about it!
