"Arguably the most influential fiction podcast of all time, Welcome to Night Vale is lyrical, satirical, funny, frightening, beautiful and though-provoking. It is and continues to be one of the defining pieces of fiction that captures cultural attitudes in the 21st century, and no list of all time great podcasts would be complete without it."

- Ella Watts, Doctor Who: Redacted/Eliza: A Robot Story/Camlann: An Audio Drama/Wooden Overcoats/The Tower/Re: Dracula

Welcome to Night Vale is a surrealist radio drama disguised as community news, where the uncanny is mundane and the mundane is laced with existential dread. With its deadpan delivery and poetic absurdity, the show constructs a world governed by dream logic, conspiracy, and cosmic bureaucracy—equal parts Lovecraft and public radio. Beneath the humor and strangeness lies an unexpectedly tender core, offering reflections on love, fear, and the fragile coherence of identity. As one of podcasting’s early cult phenomena, Night Vale proved that audio fiction could be both wildly experimental and emotionally resonant, a genre unto itself whispered into the void.