In the tradition of Clive Barker's Nightbreed, The Night Parade is a dark medieval fantasy tale. Myrmeen Lhal, the seductive ruler of Arabel, enlists the aid of the Harpers. She becomes embroiled in a war. against the Night Parade, a shadowy group of creatures that gains sustenance from human fear & misery. If she loses, she may never find her daughte, thought lost fourteen years before. Each novel in the Harper Sreies is a complete story in itself. The Harpers are a semisecret organization for Good. Ciencin also wrote Shadowdale & Tantras (under the psedonym Richard Awlinson), the first two novels in the New York Times best-selling Avatar Trilogy. Ciencin has a spine-tingling stye that keeps readers riveted.

Fantasy. Fiction. When a war against the Night Parade proves too much for her, Myrmeen Lhal, the ruler of Arabel, enlists the aid of the Harpers to win her battle against this group of creatures who gain sustenance from human fear.

Caught in a war against the creatures of the Night Parade, a desperate ruler enlists the aid of the Harpers to win the battle--and to rescue her lost heir   For decades, the ghastly Night Parade has haunted the sleep of many in the Forgotten Realms. Most thought it was nothing more than figments born of troubled minds. They were wrong.   Myrmeen Lhal, the seductive ruler of Arabel, becomes embroiled in a war against the Night Parade, a war in which the Harpers are her only allies. She must triumph against these creatures who live on fear and misery, no matter the cost. But once her forces are bolstered, prepared to fight, Myrmeen learns the forthcoming battle will be more personal than she ever imagined. For the monstrous band's leaders have the daughter she thought dead fourteen years past . . .  The Night Parade is the fourth book in a series of loosely-connected novels about the Harpers.