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2. Brick, “Online Fan Culture,” 47.
3. Charlaine Harris, The Southern Vampire Series, also known as The Sookie Stackhouse Series (New York: Ace Books, 2001–2013). The first book in the series is Dead Until Dark (2001). The last is Dead Ever After (2013).
4. Dan Ketchum, “Masculinity, Audience, and Narrative Structure: A Comparison of ‘True Blood’ and ‘Dead Until Dark,’ and of Jason and Lafayette in the TV Series,” Cinesthesia 2.1 (2013): 1.
5. Charlaine Harris, Dead Until Dark (New York: Ace Books, 2001), 1.