About the Demonata book series by Darren Shan

The Demonata is a series of books by best selling author Darren Shan. It deals with the world of demons (as opposed to his other series, The Saga of Darren Shan entitled 'Cirque Du Freak', which involves vampires). It is currently planned that the series will contain ten books, of which eight have been released.

The series centres around three protagonists: Grubbs Grady, Kernel Fleck and Bec MacConn. Although they meet each other at various points, they live in separate times; Grubbs lives in the present day, Kernel in the 1970s and Bec in around 350AD. The books detail their fight against the evil demon master Lord Loss, his many demon companions and the mysterious Shadow Demon, who promises to rid the other universe of humans and to even stop death. Together with The Disciples, the main characters thwart the Demonata's attempts at world domination multiple times.

Lord Loss was originally a poem written by Darren Shan, found in the front of Lord Loss. The story of Lord Loss and the Demonata came to Darren while he was working on The Saga. He wrote the book and left it alone until Cirque Du Freak was finished. At first he had no idea it would be a series but then he wrote Bec and Blood Beast and Demon Apocalypse.

Released

1. Lord Loss
2. Demon Thief
3. Slawter
4. Bec
5. Blood Beast
6. Demon Apocalypse
7. Death's Shadow
8. Wolf Island

Unreleased

1. Dark Calling
2. Hell's Heroes

Chronological order

The books in this series tend to jump around depending on which character is narrating.
(Note that this is only for Books 1-8 and it is yet to be known where Books 9-10 will fit in)

1. Bec (Between 351 BC and 400 AD, during ancient Ireland's conversion from Paganism to Christianity. About 1600 years before Demon Thief)
2. Demon Thief (Mid 1970s. About 30 years before Lord Loss)
3. Lord Loss (Early 21st century.)
4. Slawter (Fourteen months after the end of Lord Loss.)
5. Blood Beast (About a year after Slawter.)
6. Demon Apocalypse (Directly following Blood Beast)
7. Death's Shadow (Six months after Demon Apocalypse)
8. Wolf Island (Roughly parallel to Death's Shadow)