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Cirque Du Freak 1 - A living Nightmare
A boy sneaks out to an illicit freak show, and his life becomes entangled with a vampire spider-wrangler. "The author mines the exploitative history of early 20th-century sideshows to create an artfully macabre 'Cirque du Freak,' " wrote PW. Ages 10-up. 
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Cirque Du Freak 2 - The Vampires Assistant
In The Vampire's Assistant, the second installment of the series begun with Cirque du Freak by Darren Shan, the hero returns to the old-fashioned freak show where, thanks to Mr. Crespley, he became a "half-vampire." Darren once again struggles against the urge to feed upon the human blood his health requires. 

Cirque Du Freak 3 - Tunnels of Blood
Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, gets a taste of the city when he leaves the Cirque Du Freak with Evra the snake-boy and Mr. Crepsley. When corpses are discovered drained of blood, Darren and Evra are compelled to confront a foul creature of the night who may prove to be the end of them all.

Cirque Du Freak 4 - Vampire Mountain
The Cirque Du Freak saga continues with book four, Vampire Mountain by Darren Shan. Here, fans find Darren and Mr. Crepsley on a trip to the very seat of the bloodsuckers' empire, where a meeting with the Vampire Princes puts Darren in a precarious position.

Cirque Du Freak 5 - Trial of Death
The trials: seventeen ways to die unless the luck of the vampire is with you. Darren Shan must pass five fearsome trials to prove himself to the vampire clan - or else face the stakes of the Hall of Death. But Vampire Mountain holds hidden threats. Sinister, potent forces are gathering in the darkness. In this nightmarish world of bloodshed and betrayal, death may be a blessing. . . .

Cirque Du Freak 6 - Vampire Prince
Darren Shan, vampire assistant on the run from a death sentence, is recovering from his troubles. Once recovered, he decides to head back to Vampire Mountain to act on what he has learned. There is a traitor amongst the vampires. At peril to his life, Darren returns to the mountain and makes his claim regarding the traitor. With the truth quickly revealed, Darren joins with the other vampires to remove the threat and put and end to the traitor's schemes. 

Cirque Du Freak 7 - Hunters of the Dusk
All the vampires knew that this day was coming. The mysterious Desmond Tiny, who is as hated by the vampires as he is revered, made a prophecy regarding the Vampaneze Lord and a great war. The Vampaneze Lord, leader of the enemies of the vampires, is alive and traveling the world. Now, it's up to Darren Shan, his mentor Larten Crepsley and a Vampire Prince named Vancha March to find the Vampaneze Lord and kill him before he brings about the destruction of all vampires.

Cirque Du Freak 8 - Allies of the Night
Darren Shan, has returned to the city where it seems Vampanese have been active in killing humans. Unlike their normal behavior they have been letting the bodies be found. Since this is Mr. Crepsley's hometown the group just has to try and eliminate the problem. This goes on for some time with little thought of searching for the Vampanese Lord. But the stakeout hits a wrinkle at the start of the book. A truant officer shows up looking for Darren. It seems he has been enrolled in a local school by Mr. Crepsley. But Mr. Crepsley is obviously not responsible so someone else must be after them. But to what end? 

Cirque Du Freak 9 - Killers of the Dawn
Darren Shan is a half vampire and is a vampire prince, the highest spot of the vampires. Mr. Crepsley, Vancha March, and Darren Shan have to hunt and kill the vampanzes lord. If they kill him they will win the War of the Scars. It starts out a Mr. Crepsley, Vancha, and Darren running away from the vampanze with Steve Lenorad, a vampanze. Darren and the two other vampires don't know that this was a trap. Whenever they get to their apartment, the police were there, and they escaped. The vampanze bocked the sewage tunnels so they had to hurry up and get out of own. Later that night, they went into the tunnels and tried to find their lord to kill him. Along the way they encounter traps and than find the lord of the vampanze. You will have to read the book to find out what happens next. 

Cirque Du Freak 10 - The Lake of Souls
The Lake of Souls follows the half-vampire Darren Shan and the mysterious little person Harkat Mulds through a mystical land full of secrets... on a quest to discover Harkat's true identity.

Cirque Du Freak 11 - Lord of the Shadows
goes back to his home town, meets back up with Vancha, Debbie, and Alice, and Steve, and discovers his sister, and the true demon within himself as he makes his transformation from half-mortal to full-vampire, and as he begins to fulfill prophecies set down by Mr.s Tiny and Tall, and Evanna.

Cirque Du Freak 12 - Sons of Destiny
With this book, we come to the end of the CIRQUE DU FREAK series by Darren Shan, the one we have been waiting for and dreading. Now the Vampire Prince must face his archenemy, Steve Leopard. It is a complex and difficult problem -- He will be dead if he loses and damned if he wins. One of them will die -- the other will become the Lord of the Shadows and destroy the world. Vampire or Vampaneze; who will win? Can Darren cheat destiny?