Hello from the Night Vale Hiatus in which we still release stuff.

Today we have something very special for you. This October, October 17th,

we are so excited to be releasing the second Welcome to Night Vale novel entitled It Devours.

This is an entirely standalone book so you don't need to have read the first one

or be caught up on the podcast to enjoy it. It is a page turning thriller full of romance and

questions about the coexistence of science and religion and giant sand monsters. Preorders

are available now including a limited number of signed editions and trade secret. Preorders

really help authors so if you're planning on getting this book please consider pre-ordering it.

Now just like last time there will also be a full audiobook narrated by Cecil Baldwin himself

and today we present an excerpt from that audiobook and now from It Devours. One.

Not everyone believes in mountains yet there they are in plain sight.

Scientists insist rather have heartedly that mountains are the bulging results of tectonic shifts

along massive rocky plates. Mountains develop naturally over the course of many millennia

scientists say under their breaths. Most people believe that mountains aren't there at all.

Even when mountains are visible as they often are non-believers will explain that our minds

create sensory illusions to help explain what we cannot understand. Like the shapes of gods

and monsters in the stars or messages in tea leaves or government codes in cloud patterns.

Mountains real or not ring this desert like the rim of an empty dinner plate scattered

sparsely along the flat middle are small towns with names like Red Mesa, Pine Cliff and right in

the center Night Vale. Above Night Vale are helicopters protecting citizens from themselves and others.

Above the helicopters are stars which are completely meaningless. Above the stars is the void

which is completely meaningful. Through this crowded sky mysterious lights often pass.

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