Thought Train to Pusan

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, but on the other it took away a lot of the mystery behind the faceless old woman which her character in the series so interesting. Either way, you don’t really need to listen to the podcast or read the other novels (which I haven’t yet) in order to understand the story. The version of The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home that I took in was the audiobook read by Mara Wilson, who has one-sided conversations with the present-day Craig – the man whose home she inhabits—all while also detailing her pers...