I use to be fascinated by Harry Potter and Goosebumps covers when I was a kid. One day in the library, I stumbled across an interesting set of books with some weird ass cover art with the title .

I found it interesting and it piqued my curiosity, I quickly became hooked to the story and read through the whole series whenever I was able to check out the next one in the series. I pretty much dig the story and the weirdness involved in it, mysticism, s*** hitting the fan moments, and just pure wtfness of it.

I reread it about 3-4 years ago cause there was a spin of series about it and I've still enjoyed it the second time.

eventually I was chasing that next story and he had a second series about demons thats just even weirder and even more horror themed than the previous series. Honestly I've never came across someone who read this authors work before and imo this was a classic for me while growing up.

Edit: Yeah the movie sucked ass and didn't do it any justice, I bet this would be a good ass tv series if HBO picked it up

read first 3 or 4 of that series, remember really liking em

i read the manga, who was the baseball head gremlin dude

Loved these books back in the day. Went to his book signing for Sons of Destiny lol

Ye these classics

Was obsessed with cirque du freak when I was like 12 and read all of them

Very fond memories but I’m worried if I reread them I’ll think they were just immature and poorly written

I'm so f***ing mad I grew up a Jehovah's witness and when I was PEAK interested in these books I wasn't allowed to f***ing read them. Now I don't give a f***.
My 5th grade teacher read the first one to us as a class and I was losing my f***ing mind.

I was obsessed with these as a kid tbh

Loved his other series too
I remember it being pretty graphically violent so at 12/13 I thought it was the coolest s***

cirque du freak got a special place in my heart, just somethin about it

the 4th wall-break at the end of the last book blew my 12 year old mind, s*** was crazy

These books were so dark, especially the ending of the series

yooo @op I litteraly started re-reading The Demonata last saturday for the nostalgia, already on book 7

When I was younger I read all the series

The zombie series was cool too and I loved Cirque du Freak.

ahhh i loved these books man, forget all about em

i remember reading through the last few books all in a row at the library after school once

I never finished cirque du freak

Nah those covers scared me too much

This was the true heat

Demonata book one is insane, especially considering they had it available at my middle school library.

That book is gory as f***.

I nearly read all of Cirque Du Freak in middle school. I need to finish it and a read that other series he started.

In my 20s lmao. I was on the original ktt as a teen though.
I recently got back into reading. Currently reading 100 Years of Solitude, so I'm still into fiction. Darren Shan is a great writer, I think and hope it should hold up for me lol.

Read most of these when I was 10-11 and put some of my friends on but I remember my friend’s mom kind of scolding mine and telling her she had to better watch over what I read 🫠 I tried to get back into these books this year (I’m 21) but was kind of bored by them now. Like they’re not descriptive enough or move way too quick for me to get immersed. I read Darren Shan’s book “The Thin Executioner” a couple years ago and still liked it a ton at my age.