Critical Approaches to Welcome to Night Vale

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, USA, and an associate editor for The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. He is the author or editor of twenty books, the most recent of which are The Cambridge Companion to the American Gothic, The Age of Lovecraft (with Carl Sederholm), Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture (with Isabella van Elferen), and Return to Twin Peaks: New Approaches to Materiality, Theory, and Genre on Television (with Catherine Spooner). Visit him at JeffreyAndrewWeinstock.com.

1. Introduction: Between Weather and the Void: Welcome to Night Vale (Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock).- 2. "Everything about him was just perfect. And I fell in love instantly": Life and Love in Welcome to Night Vale (Dawn Stobbart).- 3. Our Friendly Desert Town: Alternative Podcast Culture in Welcome to Night Vale (Danielle Hancock).- 4. On Floating Cats, Good Boys, and Shapeshifting Zookeepers: Animals in Night Vale (Heidi Lyn).- 5. "It would make more sense for it to be there than not": Constructing Night Vale as a "Place" (Andy McCumber).- 6. "More Reassuring Noise in this Quiet World": Narrative Intimacy and the Acousmatic Voice of Night Vale (Grace Gist).- 7. Who Killed Cecil Palmer?: The Role of Memory in Night Vale's Self-Narrative Rupture (Michael Patrick Vaughn).- 8. Ode for the Lights above the Arby's: Reading Welcome to Night Vale through the Lens of Poetry (Elliott Freeman).- 9. "Fear the Night Sky!": On the Nightvalian Void and an Ethics of Risk (Line Henriksen).