Narrated by voice actor Cecil Baldwin, "Night Vale" is a sort of Masterpiece Theater for those drawn to the strange and unusual: think "A Prairie Home Companion" meets "Stranger Things" meets "Twin Peaks." Not unlike the "News From Lake Wobegon," "Night Vale" adopts a community radio-type format, chronicling a vaguely Southwestern American town "difficult to leave, and difficult to enter," where residents live in tandem with various supernatural creatures and events.
Ten years later, the "Night Vale" podcast has exploded into a massively popular storytelling vehicle chronicling a fictional, dystopian, desert town "where every conspiracy theory is true.” Boasting millions of downloads per month, it has spawned an entire universe of books, live shows (including its ongoing 2022 world tour) and even more podcasts under the "Night Vale Presents" umbrella.
Milling around the off-off-Broadway world in New York City, the creators and co-writers were simply doing what they’d always done: moving from project to project and hoping that maybe a few friends would watch or listen. When " Welcome to Night Vale" premiered in 2012, Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink had no idea what it would become.
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