The release date for the English version of 'Cirque Du Freak: A Living Nightmare' by
Darren Shan is Jun 2002. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Darren Shan and his closest buddy, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque Du Freak, an amazing gothic freak show with strange, horrifying performers that are half animal, half human, and who engage in unsettling interactions with the audience. True dread rears its head in the middle of the excitement as Steve realizes that one of the performers, Mr. Crepsley, is a vampire!
After the performance ends, Steve stays to face the vampire, but his reasons are unexpected! A shocked Darren overhears his buddy and the vampire in the darkness of a collapsing theater and witnesses a terrible, unsettling appeal. Darren is drawn to Mr. Crepsley as if by fate, and what happens next is his terrifying plunge into the murky and violent world of vampires.
This is the tale of Darren.