The Night Parade (Forgotten Realms)

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.