Darren Shan
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Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare (Cirque Du Freak, #1)
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The Vampire's Assistant (Cirque du Freak, #2)
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Tunnels of Blood (Cirque du Freak, #3)
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Vampire Mountain (Cirque Du Freak, #4)
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Trials of Death (Cirque Du Freak, #5)
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The Vampire Prince (Cirque Du Freak, #6)
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Hunters of the Dusk (Cirque Du Freak, #7)
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Allies of the Night (Cirque du Freak, #8)
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Killers of the Dawn (Cirque Du Freak, #9)
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The Lake of Souls (Cirque du Freak, #10)
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“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.”
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“I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.”
― Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
― Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
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“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Parable of the Talents
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”
― Parable of the Talents

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Demonata is really good.
I wish to write like you,later !! ^___^

i'm going to read zom-B i hope to like it too
as iranian says:دوست دارم


-Your #1 Shanster!!!!!!

I wouldn't call D. Shan a horror author. No offense- he's an amazing writer and I love his Cirque Du Freak and Demonata series. However, he's not really a horror author to me. More like fiction, fantasy. Stephen King, Edgar A. Poe, and Seth Graham-Smith- they're horror authors, and they are masters. Shan IS scary- but not horror genre scary.





LIVING for April and September for 'Brothers to the Death' and the first Zom-B book. SO excited!! :D xxxx
Jul 05, 2018 07:57PM · flag