Halloween is fun, and this former Sookie Stackhouse, Lara Croft, and Xena Warrior Princess has no right to take anyone to task for their Halloween spending habits.

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In the 1990s, she had the idea for the Sookie Stackhouse novels, which would take her signature protagonist, a working-class Southern woman with crime-solving abilities, and add a supernatural twist.

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