in the book the vampires assitant a boy named darren and his freind steve get two tickets to a freak show in there town. but they dont know is that it is very real. in the begginhat sayed ing of the book darren and steve playsoccer with their freinds during break and thay found a flyer that said cirque du freak on it. the freak show had many differnt acts like wolf man, and madem octa, toward the middle of the book darren steels madem octa wich was the spider from the freak show. after a couple of days he finally decides to let her out of her cage. he teaches her tricks and within two weeks she obeyed him. after a month or so darren invites steeve over and darren shows him the spider. steve flips out and asks alot of quistions. steve finally calms down and darren shows him the tricks. darrens sister walks in and the spider freaks. thespider parallized steve. after a few chapters darre lends up turning into a vampire and steeve is jelouse. at the end of the book darrel and steve end up geting into a really big fight and all of the monsters get into. it was a beggining of a new war between vampire and wearwolf.