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Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy defined by place ; the fantastic ___MASK29___ has an urban setting . Urban fantasy exists on one side of a spectrum , opposite high fantasy , which is set in an entirely fictitious world . Many urban fantasies are set in contemporary times and contain supernatural elements . However , the stories can take place in historical , modern , or futuristic periods . The prerequisite is that they must be primarily set in a city . Home Box Office ( HBO ) is an American premium cable and satellite ___MASK63___ that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office , Inc . Programming featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released motion pictures and original television series , along with made - for - cable movies and documentaries , boxing matches , and occasional stand - up comedy and concert specials . An ___MASK15___ is narrowly defined as the originator of any written ___MASK1___ and can thus also be described as a writer ( with any distinction primarily being an implication that an ___MASK15___ is a writer of one or more major works , such as books or plays ). More broadly defined , an ___MASK15___ is " the person who originated or gave existence to anything " and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created . The more specific phrase published ___MASK15___ refers to an ___MASK15___ ( especially but not necessarily of books ) whose ___MASK1___ has been independently accepted for publication by a reputable publisher , versus a self - publishing ___MASK15___ or an unpublished one . A retronym is a neologism for a ___MASK4___ created to differentiate between two words , where previously no clarification was required . Mississippi is a ___MASK28___ in the southern region of the United States , with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico . Its western border is formed by the Mississippi River . Rhodes College is a private , predominantly undergraduate , liberal arts college located in Memphis , Tennessee . Formerly affiliated with the Presbyterian ___MASK21___ ( USA ), Rhodes is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and enrolls approximately 2 , 000 students . Arkansas is a ___MASK28___ located in the southeastern region of the United States . Its name is of Siouan derivation from the language of the Osage denoting their related kin , the Quapaw Indians . The ___MASK28___ ' s diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains , which make up the U . S . Interior Highlands , to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands , to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi River and the Arkansas Delta . Tennessee (" Tanasi ") is a ___MASK28___ located in the southeastern region of the United States . Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States . Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north , North Carolina to the east , Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi to the south , and Arkansas and Missouri to the west . The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the ___MASK28___ , and the Mississippi River forms the ___MASK28___ ' s western border . Tennessee ' s ___MASK84___ and second largest ___MASK61___ is Nashville , which has a population of 654 , 610 . Memphis is the ___MASK28___ ' s largest ___MASK61___ , with a population of 655 , 770 . Sookie Stackhouse is a ___MASK35___ and protagonist of " The Southern Vampire Mysteries " book series , written by Charlaine Harris . In HBO ' s television adaptation , " True Blood ", Sookie is portrayed by Anna Paquin . True Blood is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball . It is based on The Southern ___MASK53___ Mysteries by Charlaine Harris . This article includes main characters ( i . e . characters played by a main cast member ) , as well as every recurring ___MASK53___ , and every other ___MASK3___ to appear in at least four episodes . Dark fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy which can refer to literary , artistic , and cinematic works that incorporate darker and frightening themes of fantasy . It also often combines fantasy with elements of horror . The ___MASK44___ can be used broadly to refer to fantastical works that have a gloomy , dark ( or grimdark ) atmosphere , or a sense of horror and dread . A ___MASK53___ is a being from folklore who subsists by feeding on the life essence ( generally in the form of blood ) of the living . In European folklore , vampires were undead beings that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive . They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance , markedly different from today ' s gaunt , pale ___MASK53___ which dates from the early 19th century . Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures , the ___MASK44___ " ___MASK53___ " was not popularized in the West until the early 18th century , after an influx of ___MASK53___ superstition into Western Europe from areas where ___MASK53___ legends were frequent , such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe , although local variants were also known by different names , such as " shtriga " in Albania , " vrykolakas " in Greece and " strigoi " in Romania . This increased level of ___MASK53___ superstition in Europe led to ___MASK2___ hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism . True Blood is an American dark fantasy horror ___MASK73___ produced and created by Alan Ball . It is based on " The Southern Vampire Mysteries " series of novels by Charlaine Harris , detailing the co - existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps , a fictional small town in northwestern Louisiana . The series centers on the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse ( Anna Paquin ), a telepathic waitress with an otherworldly quality . The Southern ___MASK53___ 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 ___MASK98___ for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001 and later served as the source material for the HBO drama series " True Blood " ( 2008  2014 ). The ___MASK52___ has been retronymed the True Blood Series upon reprinting , to capitalize on the television adaptation . Anna Helene Paquin ( born July 24 , 1982 ) is a Canadian - born New Zealand actress . Born in Manitoba and brought up in Wellington , New Zealand , Paquin studied at Hutt Intermediate ___MASK32___ and the Wellington Girls ' College in New Zealand before moving to Los Angeles during her youth where she studied at Windward ___MASK32___ and went on to complete a year at Columbia University before leaving post - secondary to focus on her acting career . As a child , she beat 5000 candidates for the role of ___MASK62___ McGrath in Jane Campion ' s romantic drama film " The Piano " ( 1993 ), despite having had little to no acting experience prior to getting the role . For her performance , she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11 , making her the second - youngest Academy ___MASK55___ in Oscar history . The Mississippi ___MASK96___ Delta region is a 3 - million - acre ( 12 , 000 km ) area of land that stretches from Vermillion Bay on the west , to the Chandeleur Islands in the ___MASK78___ of Mexico on the southeastern coast of Louisiana . It is part of the Louisiana coastal plain , one of the largest areas of coastal wetlands in the United States . The Mississippi ___MASK96___ Delta is the 7th largest river delta on Earth ( USGS ) and is an important coastal region for the United States , containing more than 2 . 7 million acres of coastal wetlands ( and 37 % of the estuarine marsh in the conterminous U . S . he coastal area is the nation  s largest drainage basin and drains about 41 % of the contiguous United States into the ___MASK78___ of Mexico at an average rate of 470 , 000 cubic feet per second . Charlaine Harris Schulz ( born November 25 , 1951 ) is an American " New York Times " bestselling ___MASK15___ who has been writing mysteries for thirty years . She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States . She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children . Though her early ___MASK1___ consisted largely of poems about ghosts and , later , teenage angst , she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis , Tennessee . She began to write books a few years later . Her later books have been in the urban fantasy genre . She is best known for " The Southern Vampire Mysteries " series , which HBO later adapted for its dramatic series entitled " True Blood ". Louisiana ( or ; Louisiana Creole : " Léta de la Lwizyàn ") is a ___MASK28___ located in the southern region of the United States . Louisiana is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States . Its ___MASK84___ is Baton Rouge and largest ___MASK61___ is New Orleans . Louisiana is the only ___MASK28___ in the U . S . with political subdivisions termed parishes , which are the local government ' s equivalent to counties . The largest parish by population is East Baton Rouge Parish , and the largest by total area is Plaquemines . Louisiana is bordered by Arkansas to the north , Mississippi to the east , Texas to the west , and the Gulf of Mexico to the south . Dead Until Dark , published in 2001 , is the first ___MASK33___ in Charlaine Harris ' series " The Southern Vampire Mysteries ".