Welcome to Night Vale

Without the original, no list of narrative podcasts is complete. Welcome to Night Vale has been around almost as long as podcasts have, and it's still one of the greatest out there. Cecil Gershwin Palmer leads you through the weird and sensational incidents of a town somewhere in the Southwestern United States, presented as a radio show in a fictional town.

Night Vale, a little town in an unnamed desert somewhere in the American Southwest, is a place where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all ordinary. It is here that the lives of two women will collide, each with her own mystery. A strange man in a tan jacket clutching a deer skin suitcase hands Jackie Fierro, a 19-year-old Night Vale pawn shop proprietor, a paper marked "King City". Everything about him and his paper make her uneasy, particularly the fact that she can't seem to get the paper out of her grip and that no one who encounters him remembers anything about him. Jackie is determined to uncover the mystery of King City and the man in the tan jacket before she herself unravels.

Josh, the son of Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton, is temperamental and a shapeshifter. And recently, Diane has noticed her son's father following her around everywhere she goes, appearing exactly the same as the day he left years ago when they were both teenagers. Josh, who appears to be changing every time Diane sees him, develops a growing interest in his estranged father, culminating in a calamity Diane can foresee but cannot avoid. Diane's search for a way to reconnect with her son and Jackie's search for a way back to her old life intersect when they both return to two words: "King City". If they can ever discover it, King City holds the key to both their puzzles and their futures.

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