"The world is a quickly fading illusion, revealing a void of dark, endless fire beneath, burning our lives and the memory of our lives slowly away. "
Welcome to Night Vale is awesome. I love it. It is mysterious, spooky and funny. The writers clearly have an appreciation of HP Lovecraft, and can toss out lines about the vastness and meaninglessness of existence in an off-the-cuff fashion. If you like that kind of thing, then it will come across as hilarious.
The structure is straightforward: every episode comes to you from radio DJ Cecil, as he reads public service announcements to the city of Night Vale. They are immediately strange, and often quite silly. At times, I recall my own time as a DJ with Jaconian, and I think of how much fun it would be to read stuff like this.
I highly recommend Welcome to Night Vale to anyone who likes the spooky and the strange.
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P.S. here's a transcription of an episode, in case you're at all curious, but don't want to download or listen on youtube.
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