One day, their other friend Alan comes across a flyer (which he has stolen from his older scary brother) advertising the ' The Cirque Du Freak' and eagerly shows it to Darren, Steve, and Tommy (Darren's Other Friend). His best friend, Steve 'Leopard' Leonard has grown up reading horror comics and stories of the Wolf Man and Vampires. Also he said the story is real except the names. Darren makes then a statement that life, unlike a cartoon, is naturally evil, doesn't care about happy endings, and is always out to kill you. The reason he started the 2 tale is because as the books unfold he said the story is real he doesn't expect the reader to believe but if he hadn't live through it he wouldn't believe it either. However, the joy of that gift was crushed when he, after watching a cartoon, killed the spider with a vacuum cleaner.

When he was young, he used to bring spiders from the garden and let them loose in his house, and at the age of 9, he received the greatest gift of his life: a small tarantula. It start with Darren narating saying he was always fascinated by spiders. Written by Darren Shan it is the start of the Vampiric life of Darren Shan, a young boy who is turned into a Vampire.ĭarren O'Shaughnessy wrote Cirque Du Freak in the years 19 and it was published for the first time in January 2000 by HarperCollins through the help of the Christopher Little Literary Agency. Cirque Du Freak (or A Living Nightmare in the US) is the first book in The Saga of Darren Shan, and also the first book in the Vampire Blood Trilogy.

Cirque du freak book series