50 Fun Facts About The Dresden Files

Harry Dresden, the wizard detective of the Dresden Files, is famously the only one listed where?

In the phone book is where Harry advertises openly, even though magic in his world is real but widely discredited.

Bob, the spirit of intellect who advises Harry Dresden, lives inside what object in Harry's lab?

A skull houses Bob, who is bound to it and to its owner's commands. He can leave only with permission, and would die in strong sunlight without a host body.

In Dead Beat, what kind of creature is Sue, the zombie that helps Harry Dresden fight necromancers?

A Tyrannosaurus rex named Sue joins Harry, a handful of Wardens and Thomas Raith to stop a Halloween ritual meant to turn a necromancer into a minor god.

Which Hollywood star executive produced the Dresden Files TV series through his firm Saturn Films?

Nicolas Cage was an executive producer of the adaptation, which was shot in Toronto with a pilot based on the opening novel.

In the Dresden Files, which classic novel exposed the weaknesses of the Black Court vampires?

Dracula's publication made the Black Court vulnerable, and the tie-in roleplaying game is framed as an in-world attempt to expose other monsters the same way.

Which Chicago police lieutenant uses Harry Dresden as a consultant and is later demoted to sergeant?

Karrin Murphy loses her command for abandoning her post to help Harry rescue Molly Carpenter from a Faerie fortress, and is later dismissed from the force altogether.

Harry Dresden's car, crushed by a monster in Changes and restored in Twelve Months, is what model?

The Volkswagen Beetle, known as the Blue Beetle, is flattened into a ball along with Thomas Raith's car. Thomas hands it back fully rebuilt at the end of Twelve Months.

Which Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor is the longtime narrator of the Dresden Files audiobooks?

James Marsters has voiced Harry since the earliest audiobook. He passed on auditioning for the television role because he did not want to relocate from Los Angeles.

The second Dresden Files novel sends Harry after four different kinds of which monster?

Werewolves fill Fool Moon: a teenage gang, FBI agents who change shape with talismans, and a millionaire who is the most dangerous type of all.

Which novel opens the Dresden Files, as Harry hunts a sorcerer who makes victims' hearts explode?

Storm Front makes Harry the White Council's obvious suspect in the killings, because as a teenager he killed his own mentor with magic.

Harry Dresden shares his Chicago apartment with a house cat of more than thirty pounds, called what?

Mister is also the usual body Bob borrows when the spirit goes out on errands, an arrangement the cat does not seem to mind.

In Blood Rites, Harry Dresden keeps a stray Tibetan temple dog puppy and gives it what name?

Mouse is the pup left hiding in Harry's car after he and Thomas Raith rescue the litter from demon apes, and it warns him of a vampire attack on the ride home.

In Blood Rites, White Court vampire Thomas Raith is revealed to be what relation to Harry Dresden?

His half-brother, as a portrait of their shared mother Margaret LeFay and a soulgaze confirm. She left both sons the same planted message: help each other.

In Changes, vampires kidnap eight-year-old Maggie, who proves to be what relation to Harry Dresden?

His daughter was raised by a family in Guatemala, and Harry learns she exists only when her mother asks for help. The kidnappers plan a blood curse that would kill her relatives too.

Harry Dresden consults for which Chicago Police division that takes the unexplainable cases?

Special Investigations, or SI, pays Harry to review cases that appear to have a magical element, which is how a wizard ends up at Chicago crime scenes.

Which American cable network aired the Dresden Files TV series, then cancelled it after one season?

Sci Fi Channel showed twelve episodes in 2007 and confirmed that August that there would be no more, despite a fan letter campaign to save the show.

In Death Masks, a Vatican priest hires Harry Dresden to recover which stolen Christian relic?

The Shroud of Turin has been taken by thieves known as the Churchmice, and fallen angels want it to power a plague curse at an airport.

Which Chicago crime boss is made a baron under the Unseelie Accords for aiding Harry Dresden?

John Marcone earned the title in exchange for bringing mercenaries and explosives to a White Court battle. In the opening novel he already rules the city's underworld.

Which reporter for the Midwestern Arcane is Harry Dresden's love interest in the early novels?

Susan Rodriguez is half-turned by vampires at a party and leaves Chicago, turning down Harry's marriage proposal because her condition might one day drive her to kill him.

Which ruler of the Winter Court buys Harry Dresden's debt to the Leanansidhe in Summer Knight?

Mab offers to cancel the debt in exchange for three favours, the first being to find who murdered the Summer Knight and stole his mantle.

Michael Carpenter, the devout builder who fights beside Harry Dresden, wields which holy sword?

Amoracchius is briefly lost in Grave Peril, when Harry tries to use it to break a pledge to a Sidhe and his treachery lets her claim the blade.

In the Dresden Files, each of thirty fallen angels is bound to which kind of object?

Silver coins, the thirty denarii paid to Judas Iscariot, each hold one of the Fallen. Whoever takes one up can become the angel's mortal host.

Which Denarian leader, host to the fallen angel Anduriel, is a recurring enemy of Harry Dresden?

Nicodemus tortures a holy swordsman to death in Death Masks, kidnaps the child Archive in Small Favor and leads a heist on a god's vault in Skin Game.

Which Warden of the White Council hounds Harry Dresden in the first novel, sure he is a killer?

Morgan ends up saving Harry's life at the burning house and admitting he was innocent. In Turn Coat he arrives wounded at Harry's door, framed for murder and asking for protection.

The Leanansidhe, a Winter Court Sidhe who hunts Harry Dresden in Grave Peril, is what to him?

His godmother holds a pledge of service from Harry, and in Grave Peril she tricks his girlfriend into trading away a year of memories in return for a cure.

Harry Dresden's attack at Bianca's party in Grave Peril starts a war with which vampire faction?

The Red Court fights the White Council for years afterwards, and Harry is nearly handed over to the vampires as a peace offering in Summer Knight.

The Archive, a child who holds all human written knowledge, gets which nickname from Harry Dresden?

Ivy is the name Harry gives her because she has no given name of her own. She referees his duel in Death Masks, with a mercenary as her bodyguard.

Shiro, a Knight of the Cross in the Dresden Files, became a Baptist by mistake at whose concert?

Elvis Presley's show led to a misunderstanding that left the swordsman a Baptist. He later trades himself for Harry and dies after being tortured by the Denarians.

In Skin Game, Harry Dresden joins a crew of old enemies to rob a vault belonging to which Greek god?

Hades stops time during the heist to tell Harry that the vault is really an armoury, where powerful relics wait for someone fit to wield them.

Which god is Donar Vadderung, the security-firm boss who advises Harry Dresden in Changes?

Odin warns Harry that the kidnappers plan a blood curse on Maggie's whole family, then turns up at the final battle as one of the Grey Council.

Which medical examiner friend of Harry Dresden takes up a broken holy sword in Skin Game?

Waldo Butters finds the shattered sword throwing out a lightsaber-style blade in his hands, drives off the villain and agrees to become a Knight of the Cross.

Which mentor of Harry Dresden ends Death Masks by crashing a satellite onto a vampire compound?

Ebenezar McCoy is later revealed as the Blackstaff, the White Council's licensed assassin, and in Changes as Harry's maternal grandfather.

In Proven Guilty, Harry Dresden hunts spirits that attack a film convention to feed on what?

Fear is their food: the phobophages take the shapes of film monsters, and the strongest turns out to be a fetch, a powerful servant of the Winter Court.

In Small Favor, Harry Dresden spends a boon from the Summer Court by asking a gruff for what?

A doughnut, freshly made, will take the Eldest Gruff long enough to fetch that Harry can leave the island, which frees the gruff from his duty to attack him.

In Turn Coat, which creature from Native American lore stalks Harry Dresden and his allies?

A skinwalker, or naagloshii, proves far too strong for Harry, who survives the fight only because the wizard Listens-to-Wind steps in to save him.

Which uncharted Lake Michigan island does Harry Dresden bond with in Turn Coat?

Demonreach is both the island and its ancient spirit, a towering cloaked figure with glowing green eyes. Cold Days reveals the place is a prison for supernatural horrors.

The final battle of Changes, where Harry Dresden saves young Maggie, is fought at which ruins?

Chichen Itza is where Harry's small band looks doomed until the Grey Council and an army of birdlike kenku join the fight.

Ghost Story reveals that which mercenary shot Harry Dresden in Changes, on Harry's own orders?

Kincaid was hired by Harry himself, who dreaded what service to the Winter Queen would make of him and then had his apprentice erase his memory of the plan.

Molly Carpenter, once Harry Dresden's apprentice, inherits which Faerie mantle in Cold Days?

Winter Lady is the role that passes to Molly when Maeve is shot dead on the island. She keeps it secret from her parents, only to learn in Battle Ground that they already know.

Which English actor, later a regular on Arrow, played Harry Dresden in the Dresden Files TV series?

Paul Blackthorne was cast in November 2005, and the wizard's Chicago was recreated on location in Toronto.

Which fantasy series by Dresden Files author Jim Butcher began as a bet involving Pokémon?

Codex Alera answered a challenger who bet Butcher could not write a good story from a lame idea. He took two: Pokémon and a lost Roman legion.

Jim Butcher modelled the first Dresden Files novel on which author's Anita Blake series?

Laurell K. Hamilton's agent later signed Butcher too, after he met Hamilton at a convention and was invited along to lunch.

Which Smallville actor first read the Dresden Files audiobook Ghost Story as a stand-in narrator?

John Glover stepped in over a scheduling conflict. After fan requests, the usual narrator re-recorded the book in 2015 and the first version was retired.

The Dresden Files Roleplaying Game is written as a draft by which member of the Alphas?

Billy Borden wants the game to teach mortals how the supernatural world works, and its pages carry margin notes from Harry and Bob arguing with him.

In Proven Guilty, the White Council spares Harry Dresden's new apprentice under which probation?

The Doom of Damocles spares Molly Carpenter, with Harry as her mentor, after the Merlin had already ordered her execution for using magic on her friends' minds.

In Dead Beat, the vampire Mavra forces Harry Dresden to find a book by which famed necromancer?

Kemmler was the most powerful necromancer in a thousand years, and three rival groups want his Word for a Halloween ritual that would make one of them a minor god.

In Small Favor, Harry Dresden's parley with the Denarians proves a trap at which Chicago attraction?

Shedd Aquarium hosts talks that are only a charade: the Denarians came to capture the Archive, hoping to torture her into joining their order.

In Ghost Story, the ghost of Harry Dresden first seeks out which ectomancer who can talk to spirits?

Mort Lindquist refuses at first, then relents after Harry helps defend his house. He is later seized and tortured by a necromancer's ghost that wants his body.

Which White Council clerk does Harry Dresden expose in Turn Coat as the traitor using tainted ink?

Samuel Peabody had been steering Council members' minds through doctored ink, and arranged the murder of a senior wizard for which a loyal Warden was framed.

In Summer Knight, Harry Dresden beats the Summer Lady by loosing a swarm of pixies armed with what?

Box cutters with steel blades let the swarm kill her during the battle between the Courts, stopping her plan to sacrifice a girl she had turned to stone.