Teen half-vampire--and author--Darren Shan returns in the next two installments in the Cirque Du Freak series. In Tunnels, Darren has begun to adjust to his fate, but he remains distrustful of...

Darren Shan's spine-tingling Cirque du Freak saga continues with the fourth book, in which the young Darren journeys with Mr. Crepsley and two Little People to the hair-raising vampire lair at...

Slowly but steadily building up a cult following, this series could have benefited from a faster publishing programme. Shan's fans will wish they were on Book 8 or 9 by now. This is Book 4, the...

Darren Shan was a normal kid: rash, reckless, out for a good time — especially if the thrills involved sneaking out at night. Then he went to a performance of the Cirque du Freak, stole a vampire's...

Half-vampire Darren Shan returns in another gruesome adventure sure to please readers of the first two books in his series, A Living Nightmare (Little Brown, 2001/VOYA April 2001) and The...

Shan will continue to draw "Goosebumps" (Scholastic) graduates with this third installment in the series. Here, he sends his eponymous teenaged protagonist, who is still not quite a full-blooded...

"My name's Darren Shan. I'm a half-vampire. I used to be human, until I stole a vampire's spider. After that my life changed forever. Mr Crepsley the vampire forced me to become his assistant, and...

Book one of this series introduced Darren Shan, an ordinary boy until he and his friend visited a freak show. To save his friend, Darren agreed to became an assistant to the Vampire, Mr. Crepsley,...

Mrs Mad's humble opinion 9/10 Very good. I am pleased with this. What's it about? Darren Shan the vampire's assistant must face the horror of the tunnels of blood when he finds mass murder in the...

"The smell of BLOOD is sickening. Hundreds of carcasses hang from silver hooks, stiff, shiny with frosty blood. I know they're just animals -- cows, pigs, sheep -- but I keep thinking they're...

As the third CIRQUE DU FREAK chronicle begins, Mr. Crepsley is paid a visit by an old friend, Gavner Purl, a member of the vampire police force. Mr. Crepsley refuses to tell Darren what he and...