THE MIDNIGHT PARADE
Press and event fact sheet

Title: The Midnight Parade
Author: Joshua Shackles
Setting: Joplin, Missouri
Format: Paperback
Length: 322 pages
Chapters: 40
Recommended audience: Readers 13+ and adults
Genre: Halloween dark fantasy adventure
Amazon ASIN: B0HJSSLTKH
Official website: https://welcometothemidnightparade.com
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJSSLTKH

SHORT DESCRIPTION
Old Joplin returns for one impossible Halloween night. The trouble is getting everyone home.

BOOK DESCRIPTION
When Joplin invests its entire annual event grant in an enormous Halloween celebration, Tess Mercer wants to create a spectacle the city will never forget. Then Vesper's Grand Traveling Jubilee arrives, vanished landmarks return, and festivalgoers begin disappearing into a show that is bigger on the inside.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Joshua Shackles is a Joplin writer and community advocate whose work is rooted in the people, places, and overlooked history of southwest Missouri. In The Midnight Parade, he turns familiar streets and vanished landmarks into a family-friendly dark fantasy about belonging, memory, change, and the courage to let something end.

PROGRAM IDEAS
Lost Joplin After Dark
Fact, Folklore, and Fiction
Building the Parade

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