Joseph Fink – Cannonball Read 17

Endless Halloween Not-So-Much-Fun

The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink

October 25, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

This weekend my goal was to read five books. I only got to two, but at least they were the Halloween ones. One of those was The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink. It seemed like it was going to be a strong, semi-spooky Halloween romp. Some creepy trick-or-treaters, a little bit of the “you’re too old to go out trick-or-treating” and maybe I don’t know, a monster chasing them, but it is really just a bad dream. It was that. And not like that. I […]

Even the Mysterious Figures that We Aren’t Quite Sure are there Have Their Histories to Tell

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home: A Welcome to Night Vale Novel by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

April 8, 2020 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to the Welcome to Night Vale podcast, a surreal little trip into a strange desert town with unexplained incidents that the people are just accustomed to and seem to live with like that’s just life. I’m not sure if my previous knowledge and experience with the series made the reading of this novel better or worse: on the one hand, it certainly filled in a couple of spaces at the end that might make those unfamiliar confused, […]

Horrors of the Road

Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink

June 8, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I heard about Alice Isn’t Dead in a review, I think maybe NPR. It sounded interesting so I picked it up. What I noticed quickly but hadn’t realized at first is that the author, Joseph Fink, is one of the Welcome to Night Vale guys; this tells you a lot about the tone and general type of story to expect if you’re familiar with either the podcast (I am not) or the first novel (which I’ve read). The novel was more openly horror than I […]

Welcome?

November 9, 2018 by octothorp Leave a Comment

Improbably, this is my “cover art” selection, because despite a cult podcast with a large following, I had no idea this wasn’t just a standalone book, and gosh is it pretty. Plus, the art suggests something lighthearted or irreverent, and an NPR endorsement on the cover? Good enough for me. Plus, somehow I got my facts twisted and thought it was written by Blake Crouch and I REALLY liked Dark Matter. I wish I liked it more. I think some of my issue with the […]

Well, that was some cracked out weirdness

December 30, 2015 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

One of my friends recommended the Night Vale podcast to me a while back. I’m not much for podcasts (I know, I know) so I haven’t gotten around to listening to it. I might have to, though, after thoroughly enjoying this rather insane novel based on it. “She understood the world and her place in it. She understood nothing. The world and her place in it were nothing and she understood that.” Night Vale is a small desert town, occupied by ghosts, angels (although angels don’t […]

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