During the creepy performances, Steve realizes that one of the performers is a vampire. “Saga of Darren Shann” is about a normal human schoolboy named Darren Shan, and the story begins in The Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare with him and his best friend Steve Leonard, getting tickets to the Cirque Du Freak, which is an illegal freak-show that included such bizarre half human, half animal performers such as the Wolf Man, Gertha Teeth, Hans Hands and Rhamus Twobellies. “Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” is the 2009 American adaptation.

Also, a film based on the first three books in the series (first trilogy of “Saga Of Darren Shann” called Vampire Blood) was released in theatres in the US on October 23rd, 2009. According to the latest known statistics of the book, The Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare has been published in over 33 countries, in over 30 different languages. That idea gave him the incentive to start thinking about what it would be like for a boy to meet a vampire and to reluctantly become his assistant, so he wrote the first book of “Saga Of Darren Shann” series called The Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare, which was published in January 2000. The author Darren Shan had based the main character of the series on himself, when one day during his mid-twenties, he was thinking about the consequences of a vampire attacking him and turning him into a vampire while he was thinking about his favorite Stephen King book, Salem’s Lot.

This series is written by Darren Shan and it is about a young boy who has inadvertently become involved with vampires. It is a young adult book series, which is composed of four trilogies, with three books per trilogy, hence, the series includes twelve books. The series, “Saga of Darren Shann” is also known as The “Cirque du Freak: Saga of Darren Shann” in the US.

Cirque du freak series in order