The Night Parade

By: Ronald Malfi

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

In the tradition of Stephen King's The Stand, acclaimed horror writer Ronald Malfi takes listeners on a nightmarish journey through a post-pandemic landscape, as a devoted father seeks a safe haven for his young daughter, who may hold the key to humanity's survival....

First the birds disappeared. Then the insects took over. And the madness began....

They call it Wanderer's Folly—a disease of delusions, of daydreams and nightmares. A plague threatening to wipe out the human race.

After two years of creeping decay, David Arlen woke up one morning thinking that the worst was over. By midnight, he's bleeding and terrified, his wife is dead, and he's on the run in a stolen car with his eight-year-old daughter, who may be the key to a cure.

Ellie is a special girl. Deep. Insightful. And she knows David is lying to her. Lying about her mother. Lying about what they're running from. And lying about what he sees when he takes his eyes off the road.

©2016 Ronald Malfi (P)2026 Tantor Media

I feel like I've read this book before

This book was good; well-written, good narration, kept my interest. However, it was very familiar-- like a contemporary retelling of the 2006 book The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This book has similar themes (post-apocalyptic), a similar plot (father traveling with young child across a raveged US landscape), similar plot inflection points (meeting marauders along the road), and a similar ending (which I will not give away). I am not sure if this was intentional or not but feel I want to give credit to the original which was written 20 years ago.

not what I expected

Not one of his best and I swear I read a book just like this with the same premise. It was too long for all it had to say.

Great story

Father/daughter relationship was wonderful. I hope there will be a sequel. We need to know what happens to little spoon.

Heartbreaking

It's a good book. It's so sad though. It is about a plague, yes, of course it's sad. But it's only a backdrop for a father trying to protect his daughter and his daughter trying to protect him right back. This one is gonna haunt me for a long time.

It's not an action filled zombie fest or anything. Just the beautifully written pensively, horribly sad death of the world, and two people who don't want it to die.

Anyway. The narrator did good, too.

This is worth the credit.

nothing

it sounds like ai wrote the book. it's doll this should just be a book about family time not a horror or post apocalypse