"A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful and mysterious lights pass overhead while we all pretend to sleep."
Welcome To Night Vale, created in 2012 and brought to you by the creative minds of Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, is a 140 episode podcast detailing the strange events going on in the town of Night Vale. As an avid listener of Welcome to Night Vale (or WTNV) I know there are so many different and in depth ways in which this show is enhanced through The Literary Web for Theorists. The favorite of many listeners of WTNV is the tone of the story. Cecil, the host of Welcome to Night Vale, speaks about incredibly strange topics in such a smooth manner. While episodes may go into depth about government conspiracies and five headed dragons, Cecil's voice and the tone in which he tells the story sets the listener at ease. Of course, the way he tells his stories sometimes gets a little frantic. In the episode titled "One Year Later" the tone of the episode changes drastically as Cecil becomes frantic and heartbroken over the supposed death of Carlos, the scientist. Welcome to Night Vale tells the story of the friendly desert community as if there was nothing strange going on, even though everything in this town is not quite right, the tone stays the same, I for one listen to this podcast to relax. Even though the world can literally be ending in Night Vale, the tone of the episodes remain the same.