Claim: True Blood is about mythical creatures.
Evidence: True Blood is an American dark fantasy horror	dark fantasy	dark fantasy	horror	horror and terror
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A vampire is a being from folklore that subsists by feeding on the life essence -LRB- generally in the form of blood -RRB- of the living.
television series produced and created by Alan Ball and based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris.