The Saga of Larten Crepsley is a series of novels written by Darren Shan

Darren Shan

Darren O'Shaughnessy , who commonly writes under the pen name Darren Shan, is an Irish author. Darren Shan is also the main character in Shan's The Saga of Darren Shan young-adult fiction series. He also wrote The Demonata series as well as the stand-alone books, Koyasan and The Thin Executioner...

, published by Harper Collins in the United Kingdom and Little Brown in the United States. It covers the first 200 years of Larten Crepsley's life.

This Series is a prequel to The Saga of Darren Shan

The Saga of Darren Shan

The Saga of Darren Shan is a young adult 12 part book series written by Darren Shan about the struggle of a boy who has become involved in the world of vampires. As of October 2008, the book is published in 37 countries around the world, in 30 different languages...

Books

Book 1 - Birth of a Killer (Published September 2010)

Book 2 - Ocean of Blood (Published April 2011)

Book 3 - Palace of the Damned

Palace of the Damned

Palace of the Damned is the third installment in The Saga of Larten Crepsley, the prequel series to The Saga of Darren Shan, written by Irish author Darren Shan.-Overview:...

(Published September 2011)

Book 4 - Brothers to the Death(To Be Released)

Larten Crepsley

Larten Crepsley is a teenage, human factory worker who becomes a vampire throughout the course of the first book.

Seba Nile

Seba Nile is a 500-year-old vampire, who Larten meets in a crypt and blooded him. He becomes Larten's Master.He is the second oldest vampire after the vampire prince named Paris Skyle. He later becomes the quartermaster at vampire mountain.

Paris Skyle

A 600 year old vampire prince, who has, allegedly, been everywhere and seen everything and is the second youngest Vampire Prince. He later meets up with Larten and offers to train him but Larten refuses.

Wester Flack

Wester is a young man, approximately the same age as Larten, after his parents and siblings are 'drained' by a vampaneze, Wester joins Larten as Seba's assistant. He stays at vampire mountain to continue his training while Larten runs away, it is later heard he became a guard at vampire mountain. He is also part of a vampaneze hater group.

Tanish Eul

A vampire and leader of the 'cubs' is disgraced and branded a traitor by not accepting a duel with a Vampaneze.
He is killed by Larten in Palace of the Damned

Vancha March

A Vampire General who Larten meets at Vampire Mountain. He meets up with Larten when Larten is exploring the world and becomes his companion for a short time. He was raised by Evanna. Becomes a prince and helps Larten find Tanish in Palace of the damned.

Arrow

A great warrior, who gives up being a general to marry a human. After his wife get killed, he goes on a suicidal mission trying to rid the world of every Vampaneze. Larten, Wester, and Vancha go to him, trying to persuade him not to do it. Wester ends up convincing him that he shouldn't go on a suicidal mission, and that he can get the help of many other people he hate the vampaneze. Arrow goes back to his training, and it seems as Vancha has calmed him down a bit.

Kurda Smahlt

A young blond vampire who doesn't hate the vampaneze, nor likes them. He and Wester get into an argument moments after meeting each other.

Vur Horston

Vur Horston is a teenage cousin and best friend of Larten who works in the same factory, He is murdered at work by the foreman Traz.

Traz

The foreman of the silk factory where Larten and Vur work, he is sadistic, and is the murderer of Vur, he is killed by Larten in revenge for Vur. Larten uses something sharp to do the murder, but can't remember what, just that it was sharp.

Malora

One of Lady Evanna's assistants that leaves her camp with Larten. She tends to his cut and later the vampire flu that Larten catches. She also helps him survive on the voyage to America but end up sacrificing her life to give him more time to recover. She also professed her love to Larten and that she would follow him anywhere. She could not remember her surname but died while sailing at the ship in Ocean of Blood.

The Baby

A baby Larten saves after murdering most of the crew of the pearly tornado. He plans on leaving it, but changes his mind after he realizes that Daniel Abrams most likely will kill it. In Palace of the Damned, Mr. Tiny names the baby Gavner Purl. Larten shows the baby no love because he had killed
his parents, and as Gavner grows older, he starts liking his Uncle Tanish who Larten finds in Paris. After Larten confronts Tanish in Russia, Gavner is confused. Larten kill Tanish and tells Gavner that he killed his parents, and then he gives Gavner his knife, and give Gavner the option to kill him.

Abraham Stoker

The author of Dracula. He questions Larten, but gets scolded by Paris for doing it.

Daniel Abrams

A teenage worker on the pearly tornado, he is trying to get Malora to like him, but he knows she won't. He also rats out Malora after Larten in a stage of his flu takes blood from a passenger on the ship, he says Malora took blood from a few drunken sleeping sailors (which he learned from following her) which she puts in a container to feed to Larten while he has the flu. Also Daniel is held captive by Larten after he kills the whole crew of the ship. Larten also save a few others to feed on. When Larten is about to leave for Greenland he is going to free the prisoners, then he sees Daniel drinking the other prisoners blood and eating their flesh. It is heavily implied that Daniel is Spits Abram from The Saga of Darren Shan

The Saga of Darren Shan

The Saga of Darren Shan is a young adult 12 part book series written by Darren Shan about the struggle of a boy who has become involved in the world of vampires. As of October 2008, the book is published in 37 countries around the world, in 30 different languages...

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Alicia

A rich woman who Larten falls in love with in the name of Vur Horston. She dumps him after he tells her he's a vampire.They meet again in Palace of The Damned and sort everything out.Booklover1998 (talk) 01:52, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Desmond Tiny

(aka Mr.Tiny/Desmond/Mr.Destiny)He carries a heart shaped watch and wears a yellow suit and a pair of green boots.He is known to have future predicting abilities, time traveling and other magical powers.He can travel through time and likes to meddle with it.In Palace of The Damned,he saved Larten when he was falling down an abyss in Perta Van-Grahl's palace(Larten made himself fall into the abyss as an act of suicide).Booklover1998 (talk) 01:49, 28 November 2011 (UTC)