Earl Stackhouse

Season(s)

Season 4

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Last seen

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Appeared in

"She's Not There"

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Status

Deceased

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Date of birth

1920s (presumably)

Date of death

2009

("She's Not There")

Origin

Bon Temps, Louisiana

Profession

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Species

Human / Fairy hybrid

Powers

Telepathy

Family members

Jonas Stackhouse - Ancestor (deceased)
Adele Stackhouse - Wife (deceased)
Francis Stackhouse - Brother (deceased)
Michelle Stackhouse - Daughter-in-law (deceased)
Corbett Stackhouse - Son (deceased)
Linda Stackhouse - Daughter (deceased)
Jason Stackhouse - Grandson
Sookie Stackhouse - Granddaughter
Hadley Hale - Granddaughter
Hunter Savoy - Great-grandson

Portrayed by

Gary Cole

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Earl Stackhouse (1920s - 2009) was a human/fairy hybrid with telepathic abilities. He lived in Bon Temps, where he married Adele Hale. They had a son, Corbett, whose daughter Sookie also had telepathic abilities, and a daughter, Linda, whose grandson Hunter inherited telepathy as well. Adele acknowledged that Earl had strange abilities, crediting him for saving the life of his brother Francis at one occasion, due to Earl knowing things he shouldn't have. Earl is not present in the Charlaine Harris novels and appears to be a replacement for the characters of Mitchell Stackhouse (Adele's human husband) and Fintan (Adele's half-fairy lover) from Harris novels.

BiographyEdit

BackgroundEdit

In the first season, Adele (Gran) mentions to her granddaughter Sookie that Earl once saved the life of his traumatized brother Francis by coming in time just as Francis was about to hang himself. Adele tries to relate to Sookie's difficulties with her telepathy by telling her "your grandfather always used to know things". It goes unexplained, but shortly after Sookie turned five years old, Earl disappeared into the Fairy Realm, leaving his beloved ones to believe he was dead.

Season 4Edit

"She's Not There"Edit

As Sookie enters the Fairy Realm after being taken there by her fairy godmother Claudine Crane, she encounters her grandfather Earl as he is eating the "light fruit". She is astonished and excited to meet him after he had been gone for over twenty years. Earl tells Sookie he believed he was only away for a couple of hours, leading Sookie to conclude time works differently in the Fairy Realm. The two have a conversation, in which Sookie lies to Earl about the death of his wife Adele (she says it was peaceful, whereas Adele was stabbed to death by Rene Lenier). Sookie must soon conclude the fairies are harvesting humans with fairy descent and forcefully keeping them in the Realm, so as to prevent any more possible contact with vampires. Sookie and Earl try to escape the Realm by running away from Queen Mab, who was offering everyone the light fruit (the light fruit is later revealed to prevent anyone who ate it from leaving the Realm without dying). Sookie and Earl successfully travel through a portal, back into the human world, but Earl cannot survive there since he ate the light fruit. Sookie brings him to the grave of his late wife, Adele. Earl gives Sookie his locket and has her promise to give it to his grandson, her brother Jason. He then dies by dissolving into dust, leaving Sookie in tears over the death of yet another family member. ("She's Not There")

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Sookie as a young girl with Earl.

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Earl realizing how long he was really in Fae

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