"We couldn't work out where this spike had come from," says Cranor. At Night Vale HQ, they'd registered a quantum leap in downloads in July 2013 but were struggling to explain it. Photograph: Liezl EstiponaĪfter a year, this eccentric outlier suddenly scuttled to the top of the US podcast chart, shutting out populist heavyweights such as Radiolab and National Public Radio behemoth This American Life (which averages around 800,000 downloads per episode). Because the world needs to be believable within itself, even if it's not believable at all compared to our world." So Khoshekh, the hovering male cat that gives birth to kittens with poisonous spine ridges, becomes a beloved recurring character, and Night Vale's alarming mythology grows – throbs, even – with each fortnightly instalment.Ĭecil Baldwin reprises his role as the narrator at a Night Vale live show. "If we say something happened in Night Vale then it happened. "We agreed early on that we could write whatever we wanted, it could be weird and poetic, but it needed to have strict continuity," says Fink. "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.įink, Cranor and narrator Cecil Baldwin met through the puckish theatre troupe the New York Neo-Futurists, and some of that anarchic spirit has seeped into Night Vale, a place where a love of the bizarre meets a love of language.
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