Cirque Du Freak 25th Anniversary Edition: The Saga Of Darren Shan #1Darren is just your average schoolboy or was, at least until he and his friend Steve buy tickets to the outlawed, magical and macabre Cirque Du Freak. Packed with wonderfully grotesque characters including a snake boy, a wolf man and, most exciting of all, an enormous performing spider the boys are enchanted, fascinated and yet terrified by the show. Darren, a total spider freak, decides to steal and train Madam Octa an enormous tarantala owned by Mr