ABSTRACT
Law and enjoyment has undergone a supernatural renovation in recent years with the publication and adaptation of Charlaine Harris' magical realist series 'True Blood'. In its adaptation to an episodic television series by Home Box Office (HBO) the narrative of True Blood has found itself among the tides of contemporary popular culture's ardour for vampires, zombies, werewolves and other fantastical representations. True Blood's supernatural cast has gradually built up across each novel and season of the television series. 'True Blood' does well to ape the structure of the orthodox view of fairytales as stories that shield us from the unknown, as it gives Harris some narrative purchase on an otherwise purely illusory cast of characters. Harris' series inverts this usual screening of horror to demonstrate that the stories themselves are true. Like a bad infinity, the train of supernatural creatures stretches out to include just about any enigma that the social structure produces in the story cycle.
