It was Mrs Shan's birthday a while back -- 29 years old, of course!! (Back at a school event a couple of decades ago, when someone asked how old I was, I said 29 -- which I was at the time -- and a...

I was intrigued to get an email from Taschen a few months ago with the header: Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. For those unfamiliar with Taschen, they're a publishing company, and they...

Wrapping up my trilogy of music-themed posts, a fan of my Demonata books, called Bob Bobin, put together an album of hip-hop tunes that was cheekily entitled... Lord Floss!!! I'm not sure if Bob...

A fan of my vampire books, called King Mel, was reading Birth of a Killer, Book 1 of the Saga Of Larten Crepsley series, and decided to compose a cool little piece of music for the scene in which...

I shared the "Cirque Du Freak" song by Necronata with everyone a while back (see the August issue of the Shanville Monthly if you don't know what I'm talking about), and there must be something in...

A Shanster called Rowan recently posted over on the Darren Shan Discussions Facebook page, describing how she first discovered my books:

"When I was in secondary school, my form tutor kept a...