Bill Compton’s strip mall: Shortly after his arrival in Bon Temps, Bill purchases a strip mall near the highway. It houses a number of businesses, including a restaurant, Lalaurie’s, cited as the only fancy restaurant in the town besides the country club dining room; a hair salon called Clip and Curl; and Tara’s Togs, a clothing shop owned by Sookie’s best friend, Tara Thornton. It becomes a source of tension between Sookie and Bill when he tells her he’s set up an unlimited line of credit at the shops for her, which makes her feel like she’s being kept. (LDID)

Bison shifter: No name given. A patron at Josephine’s on the night Sookie is staked, the bison lumbers past Russell’s limo as they are stopped at an intersection. (CD)

Black Moon Productions: Affiliated with Blue Moon Entertainment, Black Moon Productions is the side of the company that handles more adult entertainment, involving both humans and vampires and a willingness to have sex in public. (Mentioned ATD)

Blanchard, Ben: Ben, Sookie’s maternal grandfather, dies of a stroke while Sookie is in her teens. (Deceased; mentioned CD)

Blanchard, Olivia: Sookie’s maternal grandmother, Olivia, dies of an overdose of sleeping pills about a year after her husband’s death. It’s suspected her overdose was not an accident. (Deceased; mentioned CD)

Blood in the Quarter, the: After the vampires revealed their existence to the world, this was the first hotel in the world that catered exclusively to vampires. Located in the middle of the French Quarter, it features light-tight rooms and anything else that a traveling vampire might need. Bill stays there while in New Orleans on business. (DUD)

Blue Moon Entertainment: Affiliated with Black Moon Productions, Blue Moon Entertainment is a dance company that specializes in human/ vampire dance teams. Sean O’Rourke and Layla Larue Lemay, professional dancers employed by Blue Moon, perform at the Pyramid of Gizeh during the vampire conference in Rhodes. (Mentioned ATD)

Blythe, Polly: Ceremonies officer of the Fellowship of the Sun in Dallas, Polly helps arrange the planned self-immolation of Godfrey and the forced immolation of Farrell in a dawn ritual. When Luna and Sookie escape in Luna’s Outback, Polly and Sarah Newlin pursue them, ramming them with their car and forcing them into an accident. With the help of concerned witnesses, Luna and Sookie are sent to the hospital while Polly and Sarah are questioned by the police. (LDID)

Bodehouse, Jane: One of Merlotte’s resident alcoholics, Jane tries repeatedly to stay sober and fails. Despite the effects of alcohol on her brain, she is an expert on old-movie trivia and joins in with the other bar patrons and the employees in guessing the answers to Jeopardy! every day. (CD, DAAD, DD, FDTW, DAG, DITF, DR)

Bodehouse, Marvin: Jane’s son is sadly accustomed to the calls to pick up his mother. Having seen the effects of alcoholism, Marvin doesn’t drink. (CD, DD)