The Saga of Darren Shan #1: Cirque du Freak Award-winning author by Darren Shan (author)

Author/Illustrator

Darren Shan

Darren Shan is author of two best-selling horror series: The Saga of Darren Shan, and The Demonata. He was born in London in 1972, but has lived in Ireland since the age of six. He began to write as a teenager, and initally had horror books for adults published.

His big breakthrough came in 2000 with the publication of his first children’s book, Cirque du Freak. The first of twelve books in the vampiric_Saga of Darren Shan_ it attracted a huge following. A film of the first three books is released in October 2009. His next project, The Demonata cemented his reputation as the master of children’s horror, and the episodic Zom_B soon followed.

Darren lives in Limerick with his girlfriend. He’s a huge film buff, loves to collect comic-art, supports Tottenham Hotspur – and is always thinking up new ways to terrify his readers!

Darren’s books have now been published in 31 languages, and have been best-sellers in countries as diverse as America, Hugnary and Taiwan, selling over 20 million copies worldwide!!!!

Reviews

1. greig10
   on 2 December 2009

   the book

   the book is fab because of the circus and spider the famous book is Darren Shans first ever book

   5 out of 5

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What kids think

1. Nashdasher
   on 7 March 2013

   this book is great scary but with lots of action.

2. CookieM
   on 4 March 2013

   One of my favourite Darren Shan books and i think it’s better than the film. Reading it makes you feel like you are there, i like books that can make you feel that way.

   5 out of 5

3. lemonhoneysss10
   on 6 March 2012

   Darren Shan is the master of horror books! And he starts this one of with a bang! Spiders, vampires, a circus full of strange people and the Little people…! What more could you ask for?

4. dashernasher
   on 1 March 2012

   this book contains vipires, killer spiders and slayers it’s an all out action packed book.

5. xxisabellatrixx
   on 27 February 2011

   i completely agree with j k rowling, the book is always surprising, whicj is perfect because it is written in first person and the main character isnt going to know what is going to happen in his life so why should the reader. i love seeing the world through the eyes of someone else. i thought the book ws so briliantly indescriably good! *not for the faint hearted

6. PrincessDona
   on 18 January 2010

   I have read all the book series of Darren Shan and I loved it!!!

   5 out of 5

7. loonylol96
   on 3 December 2009

   This book is amazing the movie is so differant and not as good but once you finish the book you need to read the next stright away.

   5 out of 5