With strong sales overseas and a movie deal in the works, book one in The Saga of Darren Shan series is poised to capture a wide audience of series horror readers. After a rather slow buildup, a boy with the same name as the author sneaks out with...
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Darren Shan, Author . Little, Brown $6.50 (272p) ISBN 978-0-316-60510-6
A boy sneaks out to an illicit freak show, and his life becomes entangled with a vampire spider-wrangler. "The author mines the exploitative history of early 20th-century sideshows to create an artfully macabre 'Cirque du Freak,' "
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Darren Shan, Author . Little, Brown $15.99 (234p) ISBN 978-0-316-11499-8
The author of the popular Cirque du Freak books launches another no less gruesome series with this first installment in the Demonata books. Readers meet teen narrator Grubitsch Grady ("Grubbs") in a bad spot—he's in the principal
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Darren Shan, Author . Grand Central $19.99 (278p) ISBN 978-0-446-55175-5
Shan's dystopic thriller, the first in a trilogy already published in the U.K., is an excellent, twisting foray into a world of deceit, murder, and mystery. Capac Raimi arrives in an unnamed city, a place ruled by a man known as the Cardinal,...
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Darren Shan, Little, Brown, $17.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-316-07865-8
Shan (the Cirque Du Freak series) delivers a fun if predictable stand-alone novel that loosely updates Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn while posing some interesting moral questions. Set in an alternate Arabia filled with multiple religions...
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Darren Shan, Grand Central, $19.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-55173-1
Written before Darren O'Shaughnessy became a bestselling young adult author as Darren Shan, this gory companion to June 2010's Procession of the Dead is a twisting, paranormal gangster mystery. Al "Algiers" Jeery works for the Cardinal, crime boss...
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Darren Shan, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-316-60806-0
The Cirque Du Freak saga continues with book four, Vampire Mountain by Darren Shan. Here, fans find Darren and Mr. Crepsley on a trip to the very seat of the bloodsuckers' empire, where a meeting with the Vampire Princes puts Darren in a...
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Darren Shan, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $8.99 (199p) ISBN 978-0-316-60542-7
The sixth installment of the Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan, The Vampire Prince, finds Darren accused of being a traitor, after Kurda betrays him, and being pursued by the vampire clan. To save his skin, he must outfox a vampire prince, ...
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Darren Shan, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.99 (197p) ISBN 978-0-316-60709-4
The sixth installment of the Cirque Du Freak series by Darren Shan, The Vampire Prince, finds Darren accused of being a traitor, after Kurda betrays him, and being pursued by the vampire clan. To save his skin, he must outfox a vampire prince, ...
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Darren Shan, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $16.99 (229p) ISBN 978-0-316-60763-6
A visit to the city leads Darren and Evra, the snake boy, to a startling discovery (blood drained corpses) and sends them on a mission to discover the foul creature responsible, in Darren Shan's Tunnels of Blood, the third installment in the Saga
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Darren Shan, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-316-60367-6
The Cirque Du Freak saga continues in a fifth installment, Trials of Death by Darren Shan. Once again the protagonist takes readers into the heart of the vampire world, where he must face the Trials of Initiation to prove himself worthy of being...
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Darren Shan, Author Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $15.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-316-60610-3
In The Vampire's Assistant, the second installment of the series begun with Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan, the hero returns to the old-fashioned freak show where, thanks to Mr. Crespley, he became a ""half-vampire."" Darren once again struggles...
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Darren Shan. Little, Brown, $14.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-316-21440-7
Shan, author of the Cirque du Freak and Demonata series, enters the zombie genre in a thoroughly bloody fashion with this slow-burning horror piece, which opens a planned 12-book series. This slim volume starts off quietly, introducing readers to...
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