Cette série retrace le parcours éprouvant d'un personnage essentiel, retraçant sa transformation d'un garçon mortel en un prince vampire redoutable. Explorez ses luttes anciennes, ses dilemmes moraux et le creuset qui l'a forgé dans la figure connue d'autres récits. Plongez dans un monde de dark fantasy rempli d'action, de trahison et d'êtres surnaturels où la survie dépend du courage et de la ruse.
Darren Shan returns to his roots with the life story of vampire Larten Crepsley, following his journey through centuries and continents filled with sea voyages, murder, war, and love. This epic tale chronicles the transformation of a nobody into a world-changing figure.
As young vampires, Larten Crepsley and his blood brother Wester travel widely, trying to experience fully the violent, hedonistic pleasures of the human world before committing to the vampire life
Having received a sign that he is not meant to die, young vampire Larten tries to live in the human world, raising the infant who survived his vengeful killing of a ship's crew and falling in love with a human girl, but the darkness inside him forces him back to Vampire Mountain.
The fourth and final instalment in the epic saga of Larten Crepsley - vampire, hero and victim of fate... Just as Larten is finding a new place for himself in vampire society, and helping vampires escape the Nazi menace, horrifying tragedy falls on his own family thanks to the nefarious Vampaneze. With his old friend Wester calling for war against the ancient enemies of vampires, Larten finds himself a figurehead of the campaign. But there are more evil things than just the Vampaneze stirring. And soon, Larten might find himself grieving again - as he faces the worst and final betrayal...