Cirque du Freak was my favorite novel series as an adolescent because I fit right in. The first novel starts with an ordinary boy named Darren and his ordinary friend Steve getting free tickets to the Cirque du Freak. This novel quickly turns freaky when a gothic vampire and a spider force them to change their lives forever.
As the series develops, Cirque du Freak reveals more of its performers. There's a snake boy, wolfmen, 'little people', Vampires and Vampaneze, of course a bearded lady, and a mysterious (probably not human) man named Mr. Tall. In this series of circus performers, my transgender identity made me feel like I would fit right in.
The first strange occurrence in this New Weird novel series is when Mr. Crepsley, the vampire with the spider counterpart controlled her every will with a flute. Some more weird occurrences were when the mysterious Mr. Tall destroyed a character's body and transferred their memories to a new, vacant body. Perhaps weirdest of all, Mr. Crepsley, a powerful vampire, died of dramatic natural causes made worse by hypothermia. These unusual happenings bend the reader's perception of the world they're experiencing. These weird events are the only elements that keep the audience from thinking everything's happening on this timeline.
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