Darren Shan
Darren Shan
Darren O'Shaughnessy, who commonly writes under the pen name Darren Shan, is an Irish author. Darren Shan is the main character in Shan's The Saga of Darren Shan young-adult fiction series, also known as the Cirque Du Freak series. He followed that up with The Demonata series and the stand-alone books, Koyasan and The Thin Executioner. Then came The Saga of Larten Crepsley which is a prequel to The Saga of Darren Shan. He has most recently finished a 12...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth2 July 1972
CountryIreland
You should take more pride in your appearance,” I tell him. “You'll never attract girls with an ugly mug like that.
I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.
Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?
I sucked blood from one of my best friends
Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.
It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.
If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here.
Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.
...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.
Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.
If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.
For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.