The Southern Vampire Mysteries
Cover of Dead Ever After
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Dead Until Dark (2001)
Living Dead in Dallas (2002) Club Dead (2003) Dead to the World (2004) Dead as a Doornail (2005) Definitely Dead (2006) All Together Dead (2007) From Dead to Worse (2008) Dead and Gone (2009) Dead in the Family (2010) Dead Reckoning (2011) Deadlocked (2012) Dead Ever After (2013) |
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| Author | Charlaine Harris |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Fantasy Mystery Gothic Romance |
| Publisher | Ace Books |
| Published | 2001–2013 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) e-Book (Kindle, Nook) Audio Book (CD) |
The Southern Vampire Mysteries, also known as The True Blood Novels and The Sookie Stackhouse Novels, is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris. The first installment, Dead Until Dark (2001), won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001 and later served as the source material for the HBO drama series True Blood (2008–2014). The book series has been retronymed the True Blood Series upon reprinting, to capitalize on the television adaptation.
In The Southern Vampire Mysteries/True Blood Series, Harris develops a detailed mythology and alternate history that approaches supernatural beings as real; at the beginning of the series, vampires' existence has only been public knowledge for a couple of years, while other supernatural beings, such as werewolves, shapeshifters, faeries, etc., exist but do not go public until later in the series. The setting is contemporary, and the stories occasionally reference popular culture.
The series is narrated in first person perspective by Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress and a telepath in the fictional town of Bon Temps in northwestern Louisiana. The 12th book, Deadlocked, was released on May 1, 2012. Harris was originally contracted to write 10 books, but she revealed at Comic Con 2009 that she has signed a contract for three additional books. On May 14, 2012, Harris' Facebook administrator announced that Dead Ever After (May 7, 2013) would be the final book of the series.
Two years prior to the first novel's timeline (in 2002 according to the Sookieverse timeline), vampires around the world have revealed themselves, via television, to the world as actual, and not mythical, beings after the development of a synthetic blood product (the most popular marketed brand of which is called "TrueBlood") that provides adequate sustenance for vampires and therefore does not require them to feed on human blood.
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