LOS ANGELES – True Blood ran seven seasons on HBO and built one of the most distinctive prop departments on television: vampire fangs, made per character, per episode, per bite. Hollywood Pictures™ holds a True Blood collection with a fang rail unlike anything else in its archive.
The fangs are cataloged to the character and, where the listing says so, the episode: Bill Compton’s HERO soft-front fangs; Ezra’s HERO fangs; JD’s fangs from Episode 511, cataloged as A and B; Lilith’s hard fangs; Macklyn Warlow’s HERO fangs; Salome Agrippa’s HERO soft-front fangs; “Biker Vamp” Theo Kipri’s HERO fangs from Season 7; and Richard Weintraub’s Hep-V fangs from Season 7. For collectors of the show, that specificity is the appeal.
Bill Compton’s wardrobe runs beyond fangs: his BOSS black tuxedo pants, black BOSS cummerbund, black bow necktie, white designer tuxedo shirt with its buttons, brown belt, a black full-neck short-sleeve shirt and a faux-rubber wood stake prop. Sookie Stackhouse’s rail includes her HERO short black dress, blue J Crew shirt, HERO candle holders, bracelet sets, HERO earrings and bracelet, a heart-shaped jewelry container, a hand-made ceramic desk container, a Vote Finch pin, and a Vampire Vineyards flyer with blood vial containers.
The set dressing reaches into Merlotte’s itself: Lafayette Reynolds’ BLACKBAT vampire energy drink sign, cataloged as one of one from Merlotte’s, and a Merlotte’s name tag – the bar’s dressing from inside the show’s central hangout. Jason Stackhouse’s knee pads are here. So is the vampire aristocracy’s jewelry: Sophie-Anne Leclerq’s HERO pearl brooch, earrings and necklace; Nan Flanagan’s HERO cross ring, earrings and necklace; and Lorena Krasiki’s HERO earrings.
True Blood premiered on HBO in 2008, created by Alan Ball from Charlaine Harris’s novels, and became one of the network’s signature series of its era. Bon Temps was built prop by prop, and the props survive with the show’s fingerprints all over them – a world where a synthetic blood sign behind the bar is as recognizable as a character.
Every item in the Hollywood Pictures™ True Blood collection comes with a certificate of authenticity. CEO Dave Goodrich built the archive after a career running e-commerce and licensing for major studios, including global e-commerce for 20th Century Fox licensing and marketing for ScreenBid, the studio prop-and-wardrobe auction house.
The show’s numbers back up the nostalgia: seven seasons and 80 episodes on HBO from 2008 to 2014, with Anna Paquin’s Sookie, Stephen Moyer’s Bill and Alexander Skarsgård’s Eric at the center, and Merlotte’s and Fangtasia as its two watering holes. The final season’s Hep-V storyline is literally cataloged in the archive – Richard Weintraub’s Hep-V fangs from Season 7 are in the listings – which gives collectors a through-line from the first season’s mystery to the finale’s plague.
Fang rails like this are rare because the listings preserve per-character, per-episode specificity rather than interchangeable stock. Every piece – fang, flyer or tuxedo – ships with a certificate of authenticity.
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