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Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor, Joseph Fink
5.0
adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense

Night Vale's unique brand of surreal comedy, romance and tragedy and cosmic horror translates smoothly to nevl form and easier still to audiobook, as narrated by the Voice Of Night Vale. An eternally nineteen-year-old pawn shop owner and a PTA mother of a shape-changing son have their lives disrupted by a weirdly forgettable man in a tan suit handing out pices of paper and the sudden appearance of mutliple copies of a man called Troy. In pursuit of answers they band together for a terrifying trip in the darkest heart of the local libarary, and beyond. 

Yeah if you like Night Vale, you'll like this, it's exactly similar in tone, style and content, by turns funny, horrible and moving, somehow navigating its own seemingly random, shifting absurdity to tell a good story, too.