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Best-selling author Darren Shan’s career was launched with Cirque du Freak, a gruesome story that is perfect for all those who love to be scared. Full of nasty and creepy things such as a snake boy and, above all, Madam Octa, the seriously frightening giant tarantula who threatens all; this is not for the squeamish or sensitive! Instead, it is a wild and outrageous horror adventure that launches a fabulous series in the same vein.
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Cirque Du Freak Synopsis
A brand new 25th anniversary edition of the international bestselling phenomenon!
Darren is just your average schoolboy - or was, at least - until he and his friend Steve buy tickets to the outlawed, magical and macabre Cirque Du Freak. Packed with wonderfully grotesque characters - including a snake-boy, a wolf-man and, most exciting of all, an enormous performing spider - the boys are enchanted, fascinated and yet terrified by the show.
Darren, a total spider freak, decides to steal and train Madam Octa - an enormous tarantala owned by Mr Crepsley, so that he can train it to perform amazing deeds. But his daring theft goes horribly wrong, and soon Darren is caught up in a web of terror from which he cannot escape - and finds himself forced to make a terrible bargain with a creature of the night…
Atmospheric, funny, realistic, moving and terrifying, Cirque du Freak has been thrilling readers for twenty five years, and is now available in this stunning anniversary edition.
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