That is kind of the point, and Fink and Cranor managed to get that point across quite successfully. While the narrative focuses on her story, she ends up as faceless for a reason. Maybe it is because I was skimming quickly, or maybe we never learn her name, but either way I think that demonstrates the genius of this book. But, mostly, I was looking for a reference to the Old Woman’s name. I had read it 2 weeks ago, and, while I absolutely loved it, I have read several more books since and a few of the details eluded me. This is my first Night Vale experience, and I was absolutely fascinated by the story authors Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor put together.īefore I started writing this review, I spent 15 minutes skimming the book. It is told from the perspective of the Old Woman, and is written in autobiographical style. The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home is a ghost story-turned-memoir. Part The Haunting of Hill House, part The Count of Monte Cristo, and 100% about a faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home. 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.
Interspersed throughout is a present-day story in Night Vale, as The Faceless Old Woman guides, haunts, and sabotages a man named Craig.
#The faceless woman series#
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. 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. From the New York Times bestselling authors of Welcome to Night Vale and It Devours! and the creators of the hit podcast, comes a new novel set in the world of Night Vale and beyond.
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