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The Unofficial True Blood Companion
Becca Wilcott
ECW Press
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Copyright © Becca Wilcott, 2010
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Wilcott, Becca
Truly, madly, deadly : the unofficial True blood companion / Becca Wilcott.
ISBN 978-1-55022-933-2
1. True blood (Television program). I. Title.
PN1992.77.T78W54 2010 791.45'72 C2010-901253-4
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Cover design: Keith Berry
Text and color section design: Tania Craan
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The publication of Truly, Madly, Deadly: The Unofficial True Blood Companion has been generously
supported by the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit, by the OMDC Book Fund, an initiative of the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and by the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP).
To Julie Wilson. Without you, I’m nothing.
“All play means something.” —Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens
Contents
Cover
Imprint
Dedication
Epigraph
Tell Me, Truebie
Immortal Love
The Vampire Touch
Charlaine Harris
Nothing Is Certain but Death and Sex
Anna Paquin (Sookie Stackhouse)
Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton)
Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte)
Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse)
Rutina Wesley (Tara Thornton)
Nelsan Ellis (Lafayette Reynolds)
Alexander Skarsgård (Eric Northman)
Michelle Forbes (Maryann Forrester)
The Pleasure and Pain of Alternative Lifestyles
Viral Vampires
The Pop Culture Politics of True Blood
Being Bad Never Felt So Good
Season 1
1.01 ~ Strange Love
1.02 ~ The First Taste
1.03 ~ Mine
1.04 ~ Escape from Dragon House
1.05 ~ Sparks Fly Out
1.06 ~ Cold Ground
1.07 ~ Burning House of Love
1.08 ~ The Fourth Man in the Fire
1.09 ~ Plaisir D’Amour
1.10 ~ I Don’t Wanna Know
1.11 ~ To Love Is to Bury
1.12 ~ You’ll Be the Death of Me
An Exclusive Interview with True Blood ’s Kristin Bauer (Pam Ravenscroft)
Online Fandom
Season 2
2.01 ~ Nothing But the Blood
2.02 ~ Keep This Party Going
2.03 ~ Scratches
2.04 ~ Shake and Fingerpop
2.05 ~ Never Let Me Go
2.06 ~ Hard-Hearted Hannah
2.07 ~ Release Me
2.08 ~ Timebomb
2.09 ~ I Will Rise Up
2.10 ~ New World in My View
2.11 ~ Frenzy
2.12 ~ Beyond Here Lies Nothin’
An Exclusive Interview with True Blood ’s Patricia Bethune (Jane Bodehouse)
True Blood on Twitter
In Conversation with Screenwriter Karen Walton
Written in Blood
Interview with a Sympathizer
Sources
Acknowledgments
Becca Wilcott
Photo Section
Tell Me, Truebie
“What’s your earliest memory of vampires? Was it a literary vampire? A cinematic vampire? A Hallowe’en costume? Was it a dangerous, funny, or sexy vampire? What impact did it have on you?”
After all the people I talked to while researching this book, when it came time to answer my own question, I couldn’t recall that initial encounter. In all likelihood, it was the one from The Hilarious House of Frightenstein, or Count Chocula, mascot of the General Mills cereal, something I would have had access to as a young person — in other words, a “lower shelf” vampire. It would have been safe, defanged, and frumpy, and, in the case of Sesame Street’s The Count, educational.