{"product_id":"the-faceless-old-woman-who-secretly-lives-in-your-home-a-welcome-to-nightvale-novel-isbn-9780062889010","title":"The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home: A Welcome to Nightvale Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A chilling ghost story. . . . A decades long, globe-spanning saga of adventure, betrayal, love, and fate [about] one of \u003cem\u003eWelcome to Night Vale\u003c\/em\u003e’s most enigmatic and terrifying characters. . . How these stories converge and how the narrator becomes immortal are merciless in their ingenuity and immensely satisfying. . . . A funny, terrifying, and unpredictable slice of Night Vale's macabre history.” — \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling authors of \u003cem\u003eWelcome to Night Vale\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eIt Devours!\u003c\/em\u003e and the creators of the hit podcast, comes a haunting novel set in the world of Night Vale and beyond.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the town of Night Vale, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from...until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with a mysterious organization of smugglers, her plot for revenge on the ones who betrayed her, and ultimately her death and its aftermath, as her spirit travels the world for decades until settling in modern-day Night Vale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterspersed throughout is a present-day story in Night Vale, as The Faceless Old Woman guides, haunts, and sabotages a man named Craig. In the end, her current day dealings with Craig and her swashbuckling history in nineteenth century Europe will come together in the most unexpected and horrifying way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart \u003cem\u003eThe Haunting of Hill House\u003c\/em\u003e, part \u003cem\u003eThe Count of Monte Cristo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Faceless Old Woman Who Lives in Your Home\u003c\/em\u003e is a lively tale of loyalty, betrayal, and revenge, that will have you looking around the corners of your own home...just in case. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Eerie, enchanting . . . offers up a Shakespearian revenge drama that doubles as the origin story of one of Night Vale’s most mysterious resident….With this tightly plotted adventure, Fink and Cranor successfully expand their universe beyond Night Vale’s desert setting. The protagonist’s matter-of-fact descriptions of the strange and horrible, meanwhile, will draw in readers. Newcomers need not be familiar with the \u003cem\u003eNight Vale\u003c\/em\u003e podcast to enjoy this standout tale.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A cinematic tale full of endless twists, \u003cem\u003eThe Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique horror story with a rare swashbuckling and complex female protagonist I couldn't get enough of. The writing throws you into a colorful, intelligent world of ups and downs, scares and laughs, and nuanced heroes and villains that keeps you gripped with anticipation for an ending you know will horrify you. Just when you think you know what's happening, the Faceless Old Woman will flip you around and make you question morality with a delicious, fun, well-crafted frustration.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGaby Dunn, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Everyone but You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For fans of the podcast and the other Night Vale novels, \u003cem\u003eThe Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home\u003c\/em\u003e likely feels long overdue. Equal parts running joke and legitimate character, the Faceless Old Woman’s history has been rarely alluded to, but here she—and her world—comes alive, tempting readers with sweet oranges, the smell of the sea and the bitter taste of betrayal.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lavish, dark  …. This novel, like the town called Night Vale, is sinister and foreboding. It is filled with treachery, duplicity, love, passion, and resounding, pulse-pounding dramatic license. Told in first-person singular, this novel is terrifying, thrilling, humorous, well-paced and completely unpredictable.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A chilling ghost story. . . . A decades long, globe-spanning saga of adventure, betrayal, love, and fate [about] one of \u003cem\u003eWelcome to Night Vale\u003c\/em\u003e’s most enigmatic and terrifying characters. . . How these stories converge and how the narrator becomes immortal are merciless in their ingenuity and immensely satisfying. . . . A funny, terrifying, and unpredictable slice of Night Vale's macabre history.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The distinctly spare and precise weirdness of Fink and Cranor’s writing (\u003cem\u003eIt Devours!\u003c\/em\u003e, 2017) will please even readers completely unfamiliar with the sinister town.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fink and Cranor are masters of the long narrative game. 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