• One ice cream good… two ice creams better!!

    13 June 2021

    Some Shan snaps for Sunday!

     

    In the first -- we try to teach our kids to share, but it's hard when their taste buds say "One ice cream good... two ice creams better!!"

     

     

    Dante's...

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  • Old fan art by Mr Kraye’s kids - part 2

    12 June 2021

    Some more old drawings by students of Mr Kraye in the USA! If you didn't see my post about this a couple of weeks back, Mr Kraye reads Cirque Du Freak to his class every year, and sends me a few...

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  • Memes for the weekend

    11 June 2021

    Some Darren Shan memes to set us all up nicely for the weekend! :-)

     

    They were all shared with me by followers on Twitter or Facebook. The first "cool" meme is by a fan with the user name of...

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  • Shonen Sunday manga review

    10 June 2021

    "Shonen Sunday" is a blog that focuses on Shougakukan's Shounen manga magazine "Weekly Shounen Sunday," featuring reviews of some of the titles that they publish. Recently the first Cirque Du Freak...

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  • New subscription form

    09 June 2021

    Ever since I launched my website, about 21 years ago, I've provided an option for fans to subscribe for news updates, so that they can be kept abreast of breaking Darren Shan news. For the last...

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  • Showing Koyasan the love

    08 June 2021

    A fan called Ash posted this very lovely post about my short book Koyasan on Facebook last week:


    "Your yearly reminder that Koyasan is wildly underrated and deserves a place in everyone's Shan...

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