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16 Worst Vampire Films Ever

Haters of the Cirque Du Freak movie are going to LOVE this list of The 16 Worst Vampire Films Of All Time!!! It appeared on the AV CLUB website recently. To be honest, I think this is pretty harsh on the film -- especially when the list omits true stinkers like Dracula 1972AD and Zoltan: Hound of Dracula!!! But hey, opinions are like a good vampire hunter's stakes -- sharp and to the point, and they're all we have to defend ourselves with in this dangerous, deadly world, so I'll always respe...

The Devil Device

Writer and journalist Dave Jeffery has been very kind to my books in recent years and helped give them some very welcome shout-outs -- he's behind the upcoming interview with me in the next issue of Phantasmagoria Magazine, which should be going on sale fairly soon. So I'm delighted to be able to return the favour and point you all towards a pre-order link for his next book, THE DEVIL DEVICE, which is due to go on sale in a few weeks' time on September 12th. This is the latest book in his Be...

Tattoo Tuesday - TD

For the third week in a row I'm delighted to make it a TATTOO TUESDAY! We're on a roll -- long may the freaky ink remain flowing and fresh!!! This week's glorious tattoo comes to us courtesy of a fan of my Cirque Du Freak series called TD Irons. TD opted for a wonderfully inventive montage -- this is one of the more visually elaborate CFDF tattoos that I've ever seen. It scores a freaktastice 10/10 from Mr Tall and all the gang!!!! 

Father of the Future - early review

Just under two months until my next book goes on sale!! This one, Father of the Future, was written for my older readers, and will be published under my DARREN DASH pseudonym. It's a short time-travelling piece of science fiction. I've sent it out to lots of reviewers, and the early responses have been very positive. Here's one of the first that came through, from one of the reviewers at READERS' FAVORITE, who awarded it a wonderfully futuristic 5 out of 5 stars!!! "It is the twenty-ninth ce...

Snow and sun in March

As some as you will have seen from posts last week, the Shans were on holiday recently, in Mallorca, where we enjoyed clear blue skies and lovely warm temperatures (but not TOO warm) every day. We had an absolutley wonderful time, and I'm sure I'll be sharing more photos from the trip in future Sunday blog posts -- although it will probably be deep into autumn, or even winter, before I get round to it! This Sunday, however, I'm darting back in time to March 9th, when we had a brief, thin fal...

Fan Art Friday - Steve lyrics by Noel

It's FAN ART FRIDAY, and here's a series of criminally overdue, lyrically rich masterpieces by a fan called NOEL. I've featured lots of Noel's art over the last few years, and I still have plenty more of it to share. About this time last year, he drew a number of works featuring Steve Leopard from my Cirque Du Freak books, and included snatches of lyrics from songs that seemed appropriate matches for the pictures. These are absolutely stunning, and they shouldn't have sat on my desktop for s...

Archibald Lox - Könyvszenvedély review

There was a lovely review recently for Archibald Lox - Volume One, on Könyvszenvedély blog. It was especially interesting to me because the reviewer, INCI, hadn't read read any of my books before. A lot of my reviewers tend to be existing fans of my work, and I do sometimes wonder if they can be as objective as a reviewer should be -- not that I ever complain when they give me a glowing review!! That wasn't the case here, which meant I could expect no favours! I started reading a bit nervo...

Tattoo Tuesday - Morgan (again!) (and again!!) (and again!!!)

Gadzooks!! He's back!!! It's another TATTOO TUESDAY (it's been a while since we had two weeks in a row!), and this weeks since the return (after several previous returns!!) of serial Darren Shan tattoo-lover MORGAN. This tattoo was based on the original British cover for Dark Calling, the 8th book of my Demonata series. And it's also the EIGHTH Demonata tattoo that Morgan has committed to!!! He told me a long time ago that he was planning to have TEN tattoos in total, one for each of the...

Hooked on Books

Shortly after Halloween last year, there was an article in the Park Rapids Enterprise online newspaper, entitled: HOOKED ON BOOKS, with the sub-heading: Let these books give you creepy-crawlies! It focused on a handful of creepy books, and one of the five recommended reads was Cirque Du Freak. It was lovely to see it still getting namechecked after all these years, and to find out what the author of the article, Robin Fish, had to say about it and the other four books, click here: https://ww...

Palace of the Damned review - Shaun

A reader of my Mr Crepsley books, called SHAUN, recently finished Palace of the Damned, which is the third book in the series, and wrote a fabulous review for it over on Facebook. I've posted the link for it below, but just in case that doesn't work, I've also copied in the review here -- I hope you don't mind, Shaun, as I didn't want anyone to miss it, and those Facebook links can be fiddly!! "I recently had the pleasure of reading Darren Shan's “Palace of the Damned,” and I must say, it wa...