Dead Until Dark
- Published
- 1 May 2001
- Pages
- 326
- ISBN-13
- 9780575117020
- Type
- novel
About this book
Dead Until Dark (2001) opens the Sookie Stackhouse series in Bon Temps, Louisiana, introducing the telepathic cocktail waitress and her vampire boyfriend Bill Compton in a world where vampires have recently "come out of the coffin" after inventing synthetic blood. It runs 326 pages and became the basis for HBO's True Blood.
Key facts about Dead Until Dark
Dead Until Dark is a novel by Charlaine Harris. Readers have had it since 1 May 2001. It runs to 326 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Dead Until Dark. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780575117020 to find the main one.
Dead Until Dark is book 1 of 16 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. The series has 16 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 29 October 2013.
Additionally, Charlaine Harris writes Aurora Teagarden, Lily Bard and Harper Connelly, plus 2 more series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery, hardboiled mystery and paranormal mystery shelves. Meanwhile, The Last Wizards' Ball is the latest published Charlaine Harris book on file, from 2025.
About Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is an American author who has spent over four decades moving between different corners of crime and speculative fiction, always anchored by a strong regional voice. She's best known for the Southern Vampire Mysteries, thirteen novels following telepathic Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse through a world where vampires have "come out of the coffin," which HBO adapted as the hit series True Blood (2008–2014). See every Charlaine Harris book in order.
Its place in Sookie Stackhouse
Dead Until Dark is book 1 in the Sookie Stackhouse series. It is followed by Living Dead in Dallas. See the full Sookie Stackhouse reading order.
Sookie Stackhouse is a telepathic cocktail waitress in the small fictional town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, living in a world where vampires have recently "come out of the coffin" and gone public after inventing synthetic blood. Sookie's mind-reading is more curse than gift -- she can't turn it off, which is exactly why she's drawn to vampire boyfriend Bill Compton and, later, ancient Viking vampire sheriff Eric Northman: around vampires, her head finally goes quiet. Each novel is a self-contained mystery -- a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781428160859
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781841492995
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780575089365