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Welcome to Night Vale

fiction podcast by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
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Summary

Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast show[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of podcast show entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,569 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Screenwriter: Jeffrey Cranor[3], Joseph Fink[4]
  • Composer: Jon Bernstein[5]
  • Publisher: Night Vale Presents[6]
  • Genre: supernatural podcast[7], surreal comedy podcast[8], deadpan podcast[9], absurdist podcast[10], mystery podcast[11], news satire podcast[12], magic realist podcast[13], science fiction podcast[14], LGBT podcast[15], Q12361806[16], weird fiction[17], comedy fiction podcast[18], fiction podcast[19]
  • Producer: Jeffrey Cranor[20], Joseph Fink[21]
  • Commons category: Welcome to Night Vale[22]
  • Language of work or name: English[23]
  • Distribution format: audio podcast[24]
  • Review score: 4.396039603960396/5[25]
  • Original broadcaster: Night Vale Presents[26]
  • SRGB color hex triplet: A23C8B[27]
  • Country of origin: United States[28]
  • Start time: June 15, 2012[29]
  • Characters: Cecil Palmer[30], Carlos the Scientist[31], Michelle Nguyen[32], Maureen Johnson[33], Leonard Burton[34], The Proverb Lady[35], The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home[36], Earl Harlan[37], You[38], Matt[39], Teddy Rahal[40], Mario[41], Lucy Tropic[42]
  • Voice actor: Cecil Baldwin[43], Dylan Marron[44], Kate Jones[45], Maureen Johnson[46], James Urbaniak[47], Meg Bashwiner[48], Mara Wilson[49], Wil Wheaton[50], Jeffrey Cranor[51]
  • Narrative location: Night Vale[52]
  • Official website: http://welcometonightvale.com[53]
  • Theme music: The Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt[54], The Ballad of Magnus and Axel[55]
  • Web feed URL: http://feeds.nightvalepresents.com/welcometonightvalepodcast[56]
  • Number of episodes: 380[57]
  • Takes place in fictional universe: Welcome to Night Vale universe[58]
  • Title: Welcome to Night Vale[59]
  • Different from: Welcome to Night Vale[60], WTNV[61]
  • Set in period: Before Time Began[62]
  • Number of seasons: 9[63]

Why It Matters

Welcome to Night Vale has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[64] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[65]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [64] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [65] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Voice actor → Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Kate Jones +6
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  2. 15d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → supernatural podcast, surreal comedy podcast, deadpan podcast +10
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  3. 17d ago · Back ache · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'ko', 'pt', 'ru', 'uk']
    Number of episodes → {'amount': '+380'}
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  4. 14w ago · Zestier · 2026-07-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Set in period → Before Time Began
    Original broadcaster → Night Vale Presents
    Theme music → The Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt, The Ballad of Fiedler and Mundt, The Ballad of Haydon and Prideaux +1
    Distribution format → audio podcast
    + 31 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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