The penultimate book in the darkly funny horror series Darren Shan called ‘deliciously nightmarish’Kyle is having trouble with the neighbours. They’ve turned into black-eyed, flesh-eating zombies. Now would be a good time to leave town but out there, on the snow covered streets, something far worse is lurking.
There is a beast in the shadows and the only way for Kyle to fight it is to use his powers. But every time Kyle uses them, he weakens the barrier between this world, and the terrifying, world of the Darkest Corners. If the barrier breaks there will be more killers on the streets..
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Praise for The Beast
“This is definitely one of my favourite series of books for the 9+ age group of the past few years, if not of all time.” – BookZone
“Explosive to the end with lots of secrets finally being revealed.” – Serendipity Reviews
“Probably my favourite book of the series so far.” – My Best Friends Are Books
Book Details
- Published: 5th January 2012
- Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books
- Format: Paperback, 288 pages
- ISBN: 978-0007315185
- Price: £5.99
Dear Barry,
please, please, pleeease, ask the german publisher, if they can translate the 2 other books from invisible fiends.
The english book is too hard to read for us.
And we want it sooo to read
Please, try it.
Thank you.
Greetings, Merle
Hi Merle,
I think only the first three books are out in Germany at the moment – Mr Mumbles, Raggy Maggie and The Crowmaster. The other three – Doc Mortis, The Beast and The Darkest Corners are not going to be published in German as far as I know. I’ve asked them to, but I think the problem is that the publisher has decided later books in the series get too scary. Doc Mortis is REALLY scary (but it’s probably my favourite book in the whole series) and so they decided not to bring them out in German.
The best thing I can suggest is that you try contacting the publisher yourself and asking them to publish the rest of the series. Get your friends to contact them, too – maybe if enough people write to them they’ll decide to publish the last three books. It’s worth a try, anyway!
You can find their contact details here somewhere: http://www.beltz.de/de/kinder-jugendbuch/gulliver-taschenbuecher.html
Thanks for being a fan of the series!
You said that Doc Mortis doesn’t hurt anyone in the book sooooo how can he be scary?Hmm?
barry i really like your books my class in cleeves primary school are coming to see you next thursday
We read the beast in school and I loved it and so did my class. I really like writing suspense stories but the beast was the best x
Shanley x Cleeves Primary School x