True Blood stars a dog.
Eric Northman . He is a vampire , slightly over one thousand years old , and is first introduced in the first novel , Dead Until Dark and appears in all subsequent novels . True Blood . The series revolves around Sookie Stackhouse ( Anna Paquin ) , a telepathic waitress living in the rural town of Bon Temps , Louisiana , two years after the invention of a synthetic blood that has allowed vampires to `` come out of the coffin '' and allow their presence to be known to mankind .