Vampire Blood Trilogy
The nightmare begins… Vampire Blood trilogy comprising: Cirque Du Freak, The Vampire’s Assistant and Tunnels of Blood. Join Darren Shan’s descent into the darkness.CIRQUE DU FREAKDarren goes to a banned freak show with his best mate Steve. It’s the wonderfully gothic Cirque Du Freak where weird, frightening half human/half animals appear who interact terrifyingly with the audience. After he sees the amazing performing spider, Madam Octa, Darren is determined to steal her. But his daring theft goes horribly wrong. The spider bites Steve and Darren has to sell his soul to an evil vampire to get the antidote.THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANTDarren joins the vampire, Mr Crepsley, as his assistant and they return to the Cirque Du Freak. There, Darren makes friends with the snake-boy, Evra Von (who knows what Darren is) and a local boy, Sam, and RV, an eco-warrior and animal lover (who do not). Darren begins to enjoy his life among the Cirque performers as the youngest half-vampire in existence, but he defiantly refuses to drink human blood – the whole idea sickens him – and he tries desperately to cling on to the part of him which is human.TUNNELS OF BLOODWhen Mr Crepsley is called upon by the Vampire Generals, Darren and the snake-boy, Evra Von, leave the Cirque Du Freak and travel with him to the city. Whilst there, Darren meets Debbie and his life as a Vampire’s Assistant fades into the background – until corpes are found. Corpses drained of blood… Suspicious of Mr Crepsley’s secretive bahaviour, Darren and Evra shadow him across the city and confront a creature of the night who may be the end of them all…
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DARREN SHAN
VAMPIRE BLOOD TRILOGY
THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN
CIRQUE DU FREAK
THE VAMPIREâS ASSISTANT TUNNELS OF BLOOD
HarperCollins Childrenâs Books An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd. 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
Cirque Du Freak first published in Great Britain by Collins 2000 Tunnels of Blood first published in Great Britain by Collins 2000 The Vampireâs Assistant first published in Great Britain by Collins 2000
First published in this three-in-one edition by HarperCollins Childrenâs Books 2003
Text copyright © Darren Shan 2000
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CONTENTS
This freakish show could never have gone public but for
the efforts of my hard-working laboratory assistants:
Biddy & Liam â âThe Gruesome Twosomeâ
âDiabolicalâ Domenica de Rosa âGrowlingâ Gillie Russell Emma âThe Exterminatorâ Schlesinger and âLord of the Crimson Nightâ â Christopher Little
Thanks are also due to my feasting companions:
the Horrible Creatures of HarperCollins. And the ghoulish pupils of Askeaton Primary School (and others) who served as willing guinea pigs and braved nightmares to make this book as tight, dark and chilling as possible.
IâVE ALWAYS been fascinated by spiders. I used to collect them when I was younger. Iâd spend hours rooting through the dusty old shed at the bottom of our garden, hunting the cobwebs for lurking eight-legged predators. When I found one, Iâd bring it in and let it loose in my bedroom.
It used to drive my mum mad!
Usually, the spider would slip away after no more than a day or two, never to be seen again, but sometimes they hung around longer. I had one who made a cobweb above my bed and stood sentry for almost a month. Going to sleep, I used to imagine the spider creeping down, crawling into my mouth, sliding down my throat and laying loads of eggs in my belly. The baby spiders would hatch after a while and eat me alive, from the inside out.
I loved being scared when I was little.
When I was nine, my mum and dad gave me a small tarantula. It wasnât poisonous or very big, but it was the greatest gift Iâd ever received. I played with that spider almost every waking hour of the day. Gave it all sorts of treats: flies and cockroaches and tiny worms. Spoilt it rotten.
Then, one day, I did something stupid. Iâd been watching a cartoon in which one of the characters was sucked up by a vacuum cleaner. No harm came to him. He squeezed out of the bag, dusty and dirty and mad as hell. It was very funny.
