Living in the countryside has made lockdown a lot easier to live with. My house is just up the road from the Shannon river, so we're able to go for some nice walks which staying well within the...

It's the final day of my Midsummer's Bottom ebook sale. One of my more atypical Darren Dash books for adult readers, this sees me ditch the darkness and horror for a light-hearted fantastical farce...

This short video by a book blogger over on YouTube brought a happy lump to my throat and a cheerful tear to my eye. Really. Click on the link to find out why -- the bit that's relevant to me starts...

Although I'm best known as a writer of YA horror, I've written across all kinds of genres over the years, for adults as well as younger readers. Thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy, crime... I've had a...

Cometh the hour... cometh the Shan!!!

I'm doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session over on Reddit this evening, where I'll be online for two hours from 3pm Eastern Time in the USA (8pm UK time)...

Back in March, a fan of my Cirque Du Freak / Saga of Darren Shan series called Connor set himself the task of reading all twelve books in the space of twenty-four hours. It was a mammoth...