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Generally, when a film director yells: "Cut!", any blood to be mopped up is of the tomato ketchup variety rather than your genuine O Positive. But let children's horror maestro Darren Shan on to the set and anything can happen.

In his latest novel, when actors, film crews and the usual camp followers turn up at the abandoned village of Slawter, they believe they are there to make a horror movie in which humans take on and overcome an army of demons and monsters.

With Shan however, nothing is quite as it seems, even his name.

Originally Darren O' Shaughnessy, a London-born Irishman, he deliberately truncated it nine years ago when he started writing horror for children, lest young fans should try to seek out his darker adult work.

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Though 33, he has a plump boyish face that skilfully conceals the tongue stuck firmly in his cheek. The idea for Slawter, the third of his Demonata series, came to him during a visit to the Harry Potter film set. (Daniel Radcliffe is a Shan fan a