Characters in Club Dead

Sookie Stackhouse

A telepathic Bon Temps waitress who travels to Mississippi to search for her missing vampire boyfriend, Bill.

Also in Dead Until Dark, Living dead in Dallas, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, One Word Answer, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead, From dead to worse, Dead and Gone, Dead in the family

Russell Edgington

The vampire king of Mississippi, whose nightclub is the elite hangout where Sookie searches for clues to Bill's disappearance.

Also in Dead as a Doornail, All Together Dead

Lorena Ball

The vampire who made Bill decades ago and holds him captive in Mississippi, using their old bond against him.

Bill Compton

Sookie's vampire boyfriend, a Civil War-era vampire who disappears while doing secret work for the Queen of Louisiana.

Also in Dead Until Dark, Living dead in Dallas, Dead as a Doornail, One Word Answer, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead, Dead and Gone, Dead in the family, The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, Dead reckoning

Eric Northman

A powerful, centuries-old vampire sheriff who enlists Sookie's telepathy to help track Bill down.

Also in Dead Until Dark, Living dead in Dallas, Dead as a Doornail, All Together Dead, From dead to worse, Dead and Gone, Dead in the family, The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, Dead reckoning, Deadlocked

Alcide Herveaux

A Shreveport werewolf who escorts Sookie through Jackson's supernatural social scene while she searches for Bill.

Also in Dead as a Doornail, From dead to worse, Dead in the family, Deadlocked, Dead ever after

Debbie Pelt

Alcide's jealous, hostile ex-girlfriend, a fellow werewolf who resents Sookie's presence in Jackson's pack circles.

Tara Thornton

Sookie's oldest friend from Bon Temps, whom she is startled to run into in Jackson as a vampire's companion.

Also in Dead Until Dark, Living dead in Dallas, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead, From dead to worse, Dead and Gone, Dead in the family, Dead reckoning

Bubba (Sookie Stackhouse)

A gentle, mentally altered vampire whom other vampires protect and employ; Eric sends him along to help search for Bill.

Franklin Mott

A vampire who escorts Tara as his companion at Club Dead, part of Jackson's transactional vampire social scene.

Sam Merlotte

Also in Dead Until Dark, Living dead in Dallas, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead, Dead and Gone, Dead in the family, The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, Dead reckoning

Jason Stackhouse

Also in Dead Until Dark, Living dead in Dallas, Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead, Dead and Gone, Dead in the family, Dead reckoning, Deadlocked, Dead ever after

Pam Ravenscroft

Also in Dead Until Dark, Living dead in Dallas, Dead as a Doornail, Definitely Dead, All Together Dead, Dead and Gone, Dead in the family, Dead reckoning, Deadlocked, Dead ever after