Why DO we Shans have such a strange affinity for largely unloved creatures?!? I'm not sure what the answer is, but there's no doubt that we do, as evidenced by these photos of myself and my...

Readers of my Cirque Du Freak books will be more than familiar with Mr Crepsley, and I'm sure they, like I, will usually picture him as a scowling, two hundred year old grump of a vampire whenever...

What's that I hear everyone shouting???

"Memes!! Memes for the weekend!!!!"

OK, OK -- your demand is my command!!!!! :-) :-) :-)

In the order presented we have...

The new guy on the job looks...

The Cirque Du Freak movie pops up on all sorts of Best Of and Worst Of lists, and I'm always happy to share the links when that happens, whether the compilers are sympathetic to the movie or...

I replied to some fan mail today, and in the order I went through them, the letters came from... Sweden, the USA, England, Japan, and New Zealand. Now that was a fairly cool geographical sweep,...

Look at these happy students from The King's School in Pontefract (which is in West Yorkshire, in England). After reading Cirque Du Freak, their teacher encouraged them to write letters to me, and...