Vampire Mountain
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Vampire Mountain is the fourth book of The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan. It was first published by Harper Collins in 2001. It was also published as part of the Vampire Rites trilogy.
[edit] Plot summary
Darren Shan, along with Mr Crepsley, leaves the Cirque du Freak and head toward the Vampire Mountain to present Darren to the Vampire Princes. The gathering at Vampire Mountain by the vampire clan is an event that occurs every 12 years. Before they leave, Mr. Tiny talks to Mr. Crepsley and coerces him into taking two of the Little People along as guardians of Darren.
In the journey, Darren Shan, two of the Little People, (including Harkat Mulds), and Mr. Crepsley meets his old friend, Gavner Purl (a Vampire General introduced in the previous book) in a way station, a place where vampires rest while ascending the treacherous mountain, where Darren and Mr. Crepsley saw two broken coffins and vampire blood. Gavner Purl surprised the party when he tried to kidnap Darren jokingly in the way station. Mr. Crepsley, being alert, cut the hand of Gavner and only then it is revealed that it was Gavner Purl after all.
Darren also has a fight with a bear infected with vampaneze blood and encounters a pack of wolves (cousins of the vampires) who help him in the battle.
After a long and difficult journey, the vampires and half-vampire Darren finally arrive at Vampire Mountain. There Darren first encounters Arra Sails, Mr. Crepsley's former girlfriend, one-eyed Vanez Blane, a fighting coach for Vampire Generals, and good natured Kurda Smahlt, the soon-to-be Vampire Prince. At the mountain the vampire Princes decided that Darren has to take a series of trails that prove him worthy of being a half- vampire. The price of failure is death, either by dying during a trial, or being painfully executed by being dropped into a pit of stakes.
[edit] Trivia
- The bear that attaked Darren was probably an Asian Black Bear because it was described as having a crecent-moon shaped strip of white fur which all asian black bears have.
[edit] External links
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| Vampire Blood | Cirque du Freak · The Vampire's Assistant · Tunnels of Blood |
| Vampire Rites | Vampire Mountain · Trials of Death · The Vampire Prince |
| Vampire War (Hunters trilogy) | Hunters of the Dusk · Allies of the Night · Killers of the Dawn |
| Vampire Destiny | The Lake of Souls · Lord of the Shadows · Sons of Destiny |
| Main Characters | Darren Shan · Larten Crepsley · Desmond Tiny · Evra Von |
| Other Characters | List of characters from The Saga of Darren Shan |
| Other | Darren Shan (author) · Cirque du Freak (film) |
