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Darren Shan
Goodreads Author
Born
in London, The United Kingdom
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Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Jonathan Carroll, Clive Barker, Kurt Vonne
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December 2010
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https://www.goodreads.com/darrenshan
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Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
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The Vampire's Assistant (Cirque du Freak, #2)
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2000
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Tunnels of Blood (Cirque du Freak, #3)
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2000
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Vampire Mountain (Cirque Du Freak, #4)
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2001
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Trials of Death (Cirque Du Freak, #5)
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2001
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The Vampire Prince (Cirque Du Freak, #6)
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2002
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Hunters of the Dusk (Cirque Du Freak, #7)
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2002
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Allies of the Night (Cirque du Freak, #8)
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2002
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74 editions
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Killers of the Dawn (Cirque Du Freak, #9)
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2003
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32 editions
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The Lake of Souls (Cirque du Freak, #10)
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2002
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40 editions
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Arra Sails essay
Arra Sails remains one of the most popular characters from my Cirque Du Freak books, even though she didn't have a lot of page time in the series. She actually was never planned to be as important a character as she turned out to be -- she just took on a life of her own as I was writing the Vampire Mountain books, and ended up forcing herself into the story. It's always a pleasure when that happen
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“Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.”
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“I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.”
― Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
― Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
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“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Parable of the Talents
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Parable of the Talents
Cirque Du Freak-Along
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A readalong of the Cirque du Freak series by Darren Shan in 2018. These are relatively short books and there will be a book for each week, but please ...more
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Thx so much for accepting my friend request:)Demonata is really good.
I wish to write like you,later !! ^___^
I love your books I love the demonata(it's my life)i'm going to read zom-B i hope to like it too
as iranian says:دوست دارم
Thank you for accepting my friend request. I know it will mean nothing, considering we are not actually friends but haha *waving awkwardly* I'm so glad you did. I'm on my way through Demonata and just finished Death's Shadow a couple of hours ago and decided to add you friend. It's so surreal like I'd been glued to your story and then the author accpeted your friend request! Enjoy your day Mr. Shan! Don't let Lord Loss crawl out into your bed.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ACCEPTING MY FRIEND REQUEST!!! You don't know how happy you made me. I might even explode. That happens to me sometimes...-Your #1 Shanster!!!!!!
Bre wrote: "OMG Thank you so much for accepting my friend request! You are my FAVORITE horror author. Iread all of your Demonata & Darren Shan: AMAZING series! I can't wait to read your zombie horror serie nex..."I wouldn't call D. Shan a horror author. No offense- he's an amazing writer and I love his Cirque Du Freak and Demonata series. However, he's not really a horror author to me. More like fiction, fantasy. Stephen King, Edgar A. Poe, and Seth Graham-Smith- they're horror authors, and they are masters. Shan IS scary- but not horror genre scary.
Thanks for accepting my friend request! I want to read as many of your books as I can and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! :D
Nishanth wrote: "HAPPY BLOODY BIRTHDAY!!!"^^^^^^^^ again! ^_^
Thank you for accepting my friend request :) I'm currently reading Dark Calling in The Demonata series and oh my god! I love these books! Can't wait to read the last book once I'm done with this one but will also be quite sad to finish the series. Brilliant job, definitely one of my favourite series of all time :)
Thank you for friending me!!! I'm in love with your books and am reading Procession of the Dead.
Thank you so much for accepting my friend request!! I.LOVE,YOUR.BOOKS! You are the best author EVER!!! I've read the whole Saga of Darren Shan just this summer and I'm currently reading the Demonata now. I just wanted to say I hope you keep writing more books and thank you for turning my world around! :)
I am a big fan of the Cirque Du Freak series! I love it. Please write more books! Maybe you should write a book about zombies. You do really good with vampires though. Thnx for the great books.
Thanks for accepting the friend request. I love you, Darren Shan. <3 LIVING for April and September for 'Brothers to the Death' and the first Zom-B book. SO excited!! :D xxxx
Darren Shan, i absolutely adore you!!! Keep trying to write more books please, they are amazing!!! :D
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