A Touch of Dead : : Sookie Stackhouse : the Complete Stories

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Fairy dust -- Dracula night -- Word answer -- Lucky -- Gift wrap.

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Sookie Stackhouse Short Stories! submitted by ErinDurrett on January 11, 2010, 7:48pm Stories form the book include "Fairy Dust," "One Word Answer," "Dracula Night," "Lucky," and "Giftwrap."

“Fairy Dust” – takes place after Dead to the World. Claude and Claudine ask Sookie for her help, by using her “abilities” to discover who’s responsible for their co-worker’s death.

“One Word Answer” – takes place after Dead as a Doornail. Is the story where Sookie first finds out that her cousin Hadley has died and she’s the inheritor of Hadley’s estate. She also meets Mr. Cataliades for the first time.

“Dracula Night” – takes place before Dead as a Doornail. Is a story about Eric and his fascination with Dracula. Every year Vampires celebrate Dracula's birthday and parties around the year are held with hopes that Dracula will attend one of his fellow vamps shindigs. As a friend of Eric’s Sookie gets an invite to this years party at Fangtasia!

“Lucky” – takes place after All Together Dead. Sookie and Amelia are approached by their insurance agent who just happens to be a warlock. He believes that someone has been trespassing and going through confidential papers after hours and enlists the women to investigate his claims.

“Gift Wrap” – takes place before Dead and Gone. Is a story about Sookie spending Christmas on her own. When she discovers a naked man wounded on her property, she comes to his rescue and thus begins an unforgettable Christmas.

This is the complete collection of Sookie short stories. However there are two more short stories about characters in the Sookie novels in other short story collections. One is "Dancers in the Dark" in the book Night's Edge about Layla and Sean got together, the vampire dance team at the Vampire "Summit" in New Orleans. The other story is "Tacky" in the book My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding. It's about the vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers exploring wedding traditions to help her friend, Taffy, marry the werewolf, Don. I highly recommend these books, especially if you are a Sookie fan! The stories are great from start to finish!

Another fun ride submitted by kgolden65 on August 5, 2011, 8:20pm Another fun ride

Sookie in small doses submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on August 15, 2013, 12:24pm I found this book, a series of short stories, disappointing, in part because none of them have the complexity I associate with mystery novels (as the other Sookie Stackhouse books are billed) and because these stories are mostly about how many boyfriends or one-night-stands Sookie can have.
Furthermore, Dracula? Really? That's so trite.
I did like the story about the wedding though (with its not-so-subtle parallel to same-gender weddings) as it teaches a lesson about community and inclusion. It's worth reading this book is you are interested in the later ones as it introduces some important characters.