Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on The Southern Vampire Mysteries.More info: The Southern Vampire Mysteries is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris that were first published in 2001. Also informally known as The Sookie Stackhouse Novels / Chronicles, it has also been retronymed the True Blood Series upon reprinting, to capitalize on the 2008 HBO television adaptation of the series, True Blood.