October 21, 2010 - Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau Offers a Halloween-Themed Tour

Spooktacular Tour that Anyone Can Sink their Teeth into During Halloween Season

Jackson, Mississippi  – Sink your teeth into a vampire-inspired tour in Jackson, Mississippi during the Halloween season. How so? With a little bit of help from the Jackson Convention & Visitors Bureau and the third installment of Charlaine Harris’s popular Southern Vampire Series, Club Dead.  

Not familiar with the book? You may know it better as the award-winning HBO series True Blood . In search of her boyfriend Bill Compton, Sookie Stackhouse finds herself in Jackson with the help of werewolf Alcide Herveaux. Now in the hands of the Vampire King of Mississippi, Sookie must find a way to set Bill free and bring him back home to Shreveport where he belongs. But can it be done?

Take a trip through HBO’s award-winning television show True Blood  and find your inner vampire in the City with Soul. Though great for the Halloween season, you can sink your teeth in to this itinerary anytime.

• Start the Halloween season off right by perusing the Spirit Halloween Store  on County Line Road for those perfect vampire duds.
• Visit the Old Capitol Museum  for the popular “Mummy Returns” exhibit. During the bewitched month of October, the museum’s former resident Mummy is on display. If you don’t have enough time to see it all, come back for more legislative history any day Tuesday through Sunday and best of all, it’s free to the public.
• Near High and State Street , the New Capitol  building features the gold eagle once admired by Sookie in Club Dead . Harris also wrote that Alcide’s apartment, where Sookie took refuge during her stay, is near this intersection.
• Explore Greenwood Cemetery  where Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty, six Confederate brigadier generals, over 100 soldiers, and past governors of Mississippi have been buried. The haunting statues and gravestones are open to the public while the vampires are in doors, from dawn to dusk.
• From Amite Street , the famed street of the fictional Club Dead, take a left at Mill Street to Union Station  where Sookie and Alcide parked and walked to Club Dead.
• If you’re in need of a bite (to eat, that is), eat at the Mayflower Café , the restaurant where Sookie and Alcide dined before their night at Club Dead.
• In the mood for a flick or for other musical entertainment? Check out the Mississippi International Film Festival and Halloween Fest at the Russell C. Davis Planetarium  October 28-30, 2010. For more information, call 601-665-7737.
• Thirsty for a sip of your own “True Blood?” Get a True Bloody Mary at Hal and Mal’s , another haunt of Sookie and Alcide on their trip to the City with Soul. Wear your costume to Hal and Mal's October 30 or October 31 for Fondren Theatre Workshop’s production of “Rocky Horror Picture Show." Tickets are $20. For other Halloween events and costume contests around the Jackson area, visit www.jacksonfreepress.com/events.

For tour driving directions, see www.visitjackson.com, then click on “Discover Jackson” and “Itineraries.” Stay on site for much more to do in the City with Soul, or call 601-960-1891.