Forgotten Crypt, released 1 July 2021. Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell, released 3 August 2021. Archibald Lox and the Rubicon Dictate, released 1 September 2021. Archibald Lox Volume Two: The Kidnapped Prince — collects books four through six in a single Volume, the way the story arc was originally written, released 1 November 2021. Volume Three Archibald Lox and the Sinkhole to Hell released 31 May, 2022. Archibald Lox and Pick of the Loxes, released 28 June, 2022. Archibald Lox and Legion of the Lost, released 26 July, 2022. Archibald Lox Volume Three: The Exiled King — collects books seven through nine in a single Volume, the way the story arc was originally written, released 25 October, 2022. Stand-alone books Koyasan A short novel released for World Book Day in the UK in 2006. The paperback edition is out of print, but it is available in ebook format through Kindle on Amazon stores worldwide. It has also been translated and released in several other countries. The Thin Executioner A one-off novel, The Thin Executioner was released in April 2010. Inspired in part by The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and based in a brutal, fantastical world, it details the perilous quest of Jebel, the thin son of a respected executioner, to petition a fire god for invincibility, so that he can succeed his father. O'Shaughnessy has stated that this is his favourite out of all of the books he has written. Lady of the Shades Lady of the Shades was released in the UK and Ireland on 30 August 2012. Hagurosan A short story originally released in a book collection called Kids Night In in the UK in 2003. O'Shaughnessy tweaked and slightly expanded it ten years later, and it was released as a book by the publishing group Barrington Stoke with illustrations by Zack McLaughlin. Darren Dash In 2014, O'Shaughnessy started publishing his books for adults under the name of "Darren Dash", so that they would not be confused with his children's books under the "Darren Shan' name. announcing that he would be publishing the rest of his adult books under this pen name in the future. The Evil and the Pure – released 2014. Sunburn – released 2015. An Other Place – released 2016. Midsummer's Bottom – released 2018. Molls Like it Hot – released 2019. Online short spin-off stories "An Essay on Vampires" "by" Steve