The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home is the third Night Vale novel, although this is not a series and it does not matter what order these books are read in. This story is a significant departure from the other Night Vale books and podcast, and is actually more an unrelated fantasy novel than it is a Night Vale book.
The Faceless Old Woman is in fact a deceased adventuress whose tales of daring-do take up most of the book. However, she currently resides in Night Vale, and has taken a hapless young man under her wing. As he
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And it’s safe to say the Royals aren’t mad about having him on their team instead of facing him with Cleveland:
Duffy: “He’s a tough out. I feel like I just learned how to get him out last year after nine seasons. And here we are, now he’s on my team. He’s a really good hitter.”
Right-hander Brady Singer: “I faced Santana I don’t know how many times. . I’m happy he’s on our team. Guy’s been hitting for a long time, and he’s good. To have him in this locker room, it’s exciting.”
The third in the companion novel series to the podcast
Welcome to Night Vale is a memoir of sorts from one of the most iconic characters in the show, the titular strange being who simultaneously occupies everyone’s house in a mysterious desert town. The book is narrated by the actor who performs her on the podcast, writer and former child actor Mara Wilson. The voice of the Faceless Old Woman has always been dryly humorous, almost clinical, as she recounts the peculiar and often sadistic pranks that she plays upon the citizens of Night Vale. I’ve always thought that tone suggested both a morality alien to our own and a lid concealing a seething cauldron of emotion. In this book, she blows the lid off that cauldron and explains how she developed that alien morality. Never telling us her name, she nevertheless reveals a great deal of information about her past, beginning with a childhood growing up in a manor house on the Mediterranean coast during the late 18th and early 19th
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