The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home
Books | Fiction / Fantasy / Humorous
4.2
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Joseph Fink
Jeffrey Cranor
“A chilling ghost story. . . . A decades long, globe-spanning saga of adventure, betrayal, love, and fate [about] one of Welcome to Night Vale’s most enigmatic and terrifying characters. . . How these stories converge and how the narrator becomes immortal are merciless in their ingenuity and immensely satisfying. . . . A funny, terrifying, and unpredictable slice of Night Vale's macabre history.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From the New York Times bestselling authors of Welcome to Night Vale and It Devours! and the creators of the hit podcast, comes a haunting novel set in the world of Night Vale and beyond.In the town of Night Vale, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from...until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with a mysterious organization of smugglers, her plot for revenge on the ones who betrayed her, and ultimately her death and its aftermath, as her spirit travels the world for decades until settling in modern-day Night Vale.Interspersed throughout is a present-day story in Night Vale, as The Faceless Old Woman guides, haunts, and sabotages a man named Craig. In the end, her current day dealings with Craig and her swashbuckling history in nineteenth century Europe will come together in the most unexpected and horrifying way.Part The Haunting of Hill House, part The Count of Monte Cristo, The Faceless Old Woman Who Lives in Your Home is a lively tale of loyalty, betrayal, and revenge, that will have you looking around the corners of your own home...just in case.
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Author
Joseph Fink
Pages
384
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2020-03-24
ISBN
0062889028 9780062889027
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"HOLY <b>****</b>!!!! This was So Beautifully written!!!! I honestly think this is the best WTNV novel yet!!!!! Hearing The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home's backstory was FANTASTIC!!!! I felt so So much for her!!!! I have loved her since her first appearance on the podcast, so hearing her backstory and how she ended up in Night Vale, not to mention such a POWERFUL backstory, was AMAZING!!!! This is definitely My personal fav of the WTNV novels, and I HIGHLY recommend not only this novel, but the others was well and the podcast!!!!"
"Holy ******* ****! that ending was perfect and i didn’t catch it until she started talking to Darius. The path to revenge is so great and the faceless old woman is such a great character. Kill my dad? Destroy my family? fine, your entire bloodline is cursed. Starting with your grandson I will help raise every one of your male descendants and when he gets old enough and marries a nice girl and has a son, I will kill him then. So that son will not have a father to grow up with. The book is great but I definitely think that it drags for a while. I definitely didn’t catch the fact that Edmund was a double crosser until it was too late. every moment is a sign that i need to get back into WTNV. Because the writing is so good!!! I can’t recommend this book enough!!!!"
"Literally best book ive ever read. cried a lot lol"
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Atticus
"Listened as an audiobook "
L M
Lacey Mac-Rhyann
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