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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In this fourth book in the bestselling Saga of Darren Shan, Darren Shan and Mr. Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But they face more than the cold on Vampire Mountain? The vampaneze have been there before them.
Will a meeting with the Vampire Princes restore Darren's human side, or turn him further toward the darkness? Only one thing is certain? Darren's initiation into the vampire clan is more deadly than he can ever have imagined.