Twenty-five years ago this month, in May 2001, a quirky new paranormal mystery called Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris hit bookshelves. It was the start of a bestselling series first known as the Southern Vampire Mysteries, also called the Sookie Stackhouse novels, and eventually renamed the True Blood series after the hit HBO television adaptation starring Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alexander Skarsgård, and Carrie Preston. The books star a perky young ingenue named Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress at the local dive bar in her hometown of Bon Temps, Louisiana, whose secret gift for telepathy makes others think she’s a bit air-headed. But when the world is rocked by the existence of vampires going public, Sookie is shocked to find herself in the middle of the paranormal drama.
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