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." - Gaby Dunn, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Everyone but You 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. "A cinematic tale full of endless twists, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home is a unique horror story with a rare swashbuckling and complex female protagonist I couldn't get enough of. A funny, terrifying, and unpredictable slice of Night Vale's macabre history.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) How these stories converge and how the narrator becomes immortal are merciless in their ingenuity and immensely satisfying. A decades long, globe-spanning saga of adventure, betrayal, love, and fate one of Welcome to Night Vale’s most enigmatic and terrifying characters. Newcomers need not be familiar with the Night Vale podcast to enjoy this standout tale.” - Publishers Weekly The protagonist’s matter-of-fact descriptions of the strange and horrible, meanwhile, will draw in readers. 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. Part The Haunting of Hill House, part The Count of Monte Cristo, The Faceless Old Woman Who Lives in Your Home is a lively tale of loyalty, betrayal, and revenge, that will have you looking around the corners of your own home.just in case. 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. Interspersed throughout is a present-day story in Night Vale, as The Faceless Old Woman guides, haunts, and sabotages a man named Craig. 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. In 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. A funny, terrifying, and unpredictable slice of Night Vale's macabre history.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)įrom the New York Times bestselling authors of Welcome to Night Vale and It Devours! and the creators of the hit podcast, comes a haunting novel set in the world of Night Vale and beyond.
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