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Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
- The Saga of Darren Shan, Book 1
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
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Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare
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Publisher's Summary
In the tradition of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes and Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, New York Times best-seller Cirque du Freak is the first title in the popular Saga of Darren Shan series.
Darren Shan and his best friend, Steve, get tickets to the Cirque du Freak, a wonderfully gothic freak show featuring weird, frightening half human/half animals who interact terrifyingly with the audience. In the midst of the excitement, true terror raises its head when Steve recognizes that one of the performers - Mr. Crepsley - is a vampire!
Steve confronts the vampire after the show finishes - but his motives are surprising! In the shadows of a crumbling theater, a horrified Darren eavesdrops on his friend and the vampire, and is witness to a monstrous, disturbing plea. As if by destiny, Darren is pulled to Mr. Crepsley and what follows is his horrifying descent into the dark and bloody world of vampires.
This is Darren’s story.
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- Samantha Urquhart
- 29-01-2024
easy to listen too
listened with 8 year old Grandaughter who is really enjoying the story so far keen to hear the next book.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-01-2024
Brilliant
Just as brilliant as I remember, read this more than 15 years ago and loved it then, love it now
Also the performance is excellent too
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- Susie Nash
- 06-05-2019
Great to listen to while falling asleep.
Disliked NOTHING! The reader wasn’t plain but he used expressions, voices and lots of other things.
Recommended to parents with young kids.
Wouldn’t change a thing.
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- Paul W.
- 10-02-2024
amazing story
the story is full of character and puts an interestibg twist on vampire lore. to date my favourite vampire story
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- Ashlee
- 29-10-2021
good listen
the narrator has a nice relaxing voice. the story is easygoing and enjoyable looking forward to the rest
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- Anonymous User
- 29-05-2023
perfect story and preformance I love it and all
10/10 amazing preformance and story read
all of the books exept this 1 10/10
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- Matthew R.
- 08-02-2022
Nothing amazing, but it's certainly a fun read!
This book is not terrible in the slightest but it can feel slow at times. However, the story is interesting overall and the narration is well done. I plan to continue listening to the rest of these books and would gladly recommend others to do the same.
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