Bonus - Ghost Stories

and I don't just write Welcome to Nightville, we also write books that are not about Nightville, and here are some of them.

Alice Isn't Dead, a lesbian road trip horror love story for fans of Stephen King.

The Halloween Moon, my book for kids of any age about a Halloween where things really start to get weird for everyone.

The First 10 Years, a memoir from me and my wife about our relationship told year by year without consulting each other about our differences in memory.

And from Jeffrey, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, an apocalyptic novel that takes place in the same universe as the Within the Wires podcast.

No matter what you're looking for, we've written a book just for you.

Find them where you find books.

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These are excerpts from our live show, Ghost Stories, a full live recording of which is available right now on nightfail.bandcamp.com or on iTunes.

This is over two hours of brand new Nightfail, including what you're about to hear right now.

A public service announcement.

After a few recent wildfires, the Nightfale Fire Department would like to remind our listeners about fire safety.

They began a new campaign to help parents talk to their kids about this important civic issue.

The campaign is called, Your Treachery Has Been Noted.

And the mascot is this adorable cartoon vulture with a camera for a face.

Fire Chief Ramona Incarnacion said it's important for parents to teach their kids about the three Rs of fire prevention.

Relent, renounce, repent.

She said that most common house fires and wildfires are started by your kids.

And here she pointed straight at you.

And then she said those children came from your body.

And then she wrested.

Sorry.

As part of the campaign, the fire department issued a pamphlet to help parents with the education process.

Now, this pamphlet is adorned with colorful drawings of pyramids and floating eyes, you know, to make it more relatable to teens.

And these pamphlets will be distributed to all night veil public school students via repeating audio loops while they sleep.

And now listeners,

a ghost story.

My ghost story.

It begins ten years ago on a night just like

tonight.

Heavy fog covered the town of Night Vale, turning the world into a blurry approximation.

Familiar landmarks into educated guesses.

No stars, and the full moon moon diffused by the mist into a soft, feeble light from all around.

A man was driving down a dark road.

There were no other cars around.

And on the side of the road, up ahead, he saw a figure.

A figure made strange by the half-hearted moon.

A brief pause in a long fog.

Now the figure had its hand up.

It did not thumb arrive, but instead gave a languid wave, more of a summons than a request.

And the man shivered, for he knew that it was on this very stretch of road, one year to the day before that day that was ten years ago, and a night just like tonight,

the old mill

finally burned down.

And when it went, there was a woman inside of it.

Now, it's hard to fathom why she was there in that abandoned, disused mill, mill, but she was.

And the unthinkable happened.

Without anyone having to think of it at all.

And since then, it has been said that in the darkest hours of the darkest nights, a young woman flags down cars on the side of the road where the old mill used to be.

And if they're foolish enough to let her into the car, she stares directly at the driver.

And if the driver is foolish enough to look her in the eyes even once,

she takes them to her home.

A dark, eternal place from which no one ever returns.

Still, he couldn't leave behind what could be a person in need of aid just because of some spooky old story.

So he pulled over.

And the figure reached out her hand and opened the passenger door.

And...

There was a cold breath, air from dead lungs, and the mist curled into the car, and the figure sat.

And the driver was careful to look not too closely, or for too long.

Um,

uh, where are you headed?

The man said, but the figure was silent.

So, he began to drive once again.

And the fog billowed as he drove, and he could swear that he could see that old mill as it had once stood, leaning and ramshackled.

Now, that mill had not not been in working order in decades.

It was probably just its time to go when it burned, but still,

he mourned the loss of what had been a part of his town.

Where to?

He said again, without turning or looking at his passenger.

And the figure spoke.

The figure spoke with a voice that sounded like a body hitting freezing water, like the distant thud in an old house in the smallest hours of the night.

You know where,

the figure said, you know where

I want to go.

And he did know.

I want to go.

And he held the wheel tighter, and he pressed the gas harder, and he stared unblinkingly at the road because he knew that the figure's face was only inches away now and staring directly at him.

Oh, listen to me, Yameron.

You know, I really should get to some of the other business of community radio, or station management will just kill me.

At least I hope that's all they'll do to me.

That is just about six minutes out of two hours of material available on the Ghost Stories live recording.

Get it now at nightvale.bandcamp.com or on iTunes just by, you know, searching Night Vale.

Hey, if you like our live shows, our newest live show, All Hail, which is about a certain glowing cloud you might know, is touring this year.

There's a tour in the US this July, and then we're touring Europe and the UK this September and October.

This show is a lot of fun.

Come to the fun with us.

Tickets at welcometonightvale.com and click on live shows.

All right.

I'm Amy Nicholson, the film critic for the LA Times.

And I'm Paul Scheer, an actor, writer, and director.

You might know me from the League Veep or my non-eligible for Academy Award role in Twisters.

We love movies and we come at them from different perspectives.

Yeah, like Amy thinks that, you know, Joe Pesci was miscast in Goodfellas, and I don't.

He's too old.

Let's not forget that Paul thinks that Dune 2 is overrated.

It is.

Anyway, despite this, we come together to host Unspooled, a podcast where we talk about good movies, critical hits, fan favorites, must-season, and case you missed them.

We're talking Parasite the Home Alone, From Greece to the Dark Knight.

We've done deep dives on popcorn flicks, we've talked about why Independence Day deserves a second look, and we've talked about horror movies, some that you've never even heard of, like Kanja and Hess.

So, if you love movies like we do, come along on our cinematic adventure.

Listen to Unspooled wherever you get your podcasts.

And don't forget to hit the follow button.

Hey, Jeffrey Kraner here to tell you about another show from me and my nightvale co-creator, Joseph Fink.

It's called Unlicensed, and it's an LA Noir-style mystery set in the outskirts of present-day Los Angeles.

Unlicensed follows two unlicensed private investigators whose small jobs looking into insurance claims and missing property are only the tip of a conspiracy iceberg.

There are already two seasons of Unlicensed for you to listen to now, with season three dropping on May 15th.

Unlicensed is available exclusively through Audible, free if you already have that subscription.

And if you don't, Audible has a trial membership.

And if I know you, and I do, you can binge all that mystery goodness in a short window.

And if you like it, if you liked Unlicensed, please, please rate and review each season.

Our ability to keep making this show is predicated on audience engagement.

So go check out Unlicensed, available now only at Audible.com.