• Sounds of Shan - Part 1 - Freaky Swede!

    05 August 2020

    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...

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  • “Darren Shan, I presume?”

    04 August 2020

    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...

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  • Deja vu or Deva new?!?

    03 August 2020

    A fan called Amity Lee recently posted this picture of the Japanese paperback editions of The Saga Of Darren Shan. She'd taken off their glossy dust covers to find pictures on the covers of the...

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  • A Shan quartet of photos

    02 August 2020

    It wouldn't be a proper Sunday without some Shan family photos, so to keep this Sunday right and proper, here we go with a smorgasbord of random snaps taken over the last couple of months.

     

    Gaia...

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  • Fan photos

    31 July 2020

    Let's wrap up my posts for July with some photos that have been shared with me by fans over the last few months.

     

    First up we have a dead gorgeous bookcase (pun intended!) which nestles nicely...

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  • Pinocchio, The Simpsons and Cirque Du Freak

    30 July 2020

    There was a fascinating episode of the Why do we read this? podcast a couple of months ago, where the co-hosts look at the similarities between the original Pinocchio story and The Simpsons and... ...

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