"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.
