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[[File:dresdentvtimage_7908.png|frame|Just another day at the office.]]
{{quote|''"My name is [[Meaningful Name|Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden]]. [[Badass Boast|Conjure by it at your own risk]]. When things get strange, when what [[Things That Go Bump in the Night|goes bump in the night]] flicks on the lights, when no one else can help you, [[Who You Gonna Call?|give me a call]]. I'm in the book."''|'''Harry Dresden'''}}
A horror/fantasy/mystery series of novels, fifteen and counting plus associated short stories and comic miniseries and the like, by [[Jim Butcher]]. Harry Dresden is a [[Occult Detective|wizard and private detective]] operating out of modern day [[The Windy City|Chicago]], and reluctantly hired by a special police task force as a consultant on supernatural crimes. A cross between urban gothic fantasy and [[Film Noir]], the [[Genre Savvy]] main character cracks jokes about the various tropes it uses. Adapted into a [[The Dresden Files (TV series)|drama series on the Sci Fi Channel]]. There's also a [[The Dresden Files (game)|tabletop RPG]], which is much more faithful to the books, as it's [[Direct Line to the Author|written from the characters' perspective]].
Harry meets a wide variety of characters in the series, including Karrin Murphy, the [[Action Girl]] cop who's [[Broken Masquerade|aware of the city's supernatural underworld]]; Bob, [[Sealed Badass in a Can|a spirit of intellect who lives in a skull]] -- human-shaped ghost in the television series -- is Harry's literal [[Magical Computer]]; Michael Carpenter, a modern-day [[The Paladin|paladin]] wielding a [[Cool Sword|holy sword]]; Billy the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Werewolf]] and his pack of Alphas (a group of young [[Heroic Wannabe|heroic wannabes]]); Thomas Raith, the [[Loveable Rogue]] <s>incubus</s> [[Horny Devils|White]] [[Deadly Decadent Court|Court]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]]; Harry's on-and-off love interest Susan Rodriguez; and Molly Carpenter, Michael's oldest daughter and Harry's [[The Apprentice (trope)||apprentice]]. Like many detective stories, Harry meets a ridiculous number of [[Femme Fatale|femmes fatale]]<!-- it's French; the plural noun "femmes" comes before the adjective "fatale" -->, [[The Don|crime bosses]], and [[Mooks|hired goons]], which is frequently [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the series.
As of September 29, 2020, there are 17 novels in the series:
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Storm Front|Storm Front]]'' (2000)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Fool Moon|Fool Moon]]'' (2001)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Grave Peril|Grave Peril]]'' (2001)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Summer Knight|Summer Knight]]'' (2002)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Death Masks|Death Masks]]'' (2003)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Blood Rites|Blood Rites]]'' (2004)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Dead Beat|Dead Beat]]'' (2006)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Proven Guilty|Proven Guilty]]'' (2007)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/White Night|White Night]]'' (2007)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Small Favor|Small Favor]]'' (2008)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Turn Coat|Turn Coat]]'' (2009)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Changes|Changes]]'' (2010)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Ghost Story|Ghost Story]]'' (2011)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Cold Days|Cold Days]]'' (2012)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Skin Game|Skin Game]]'' (2014)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Peace Talks|Peace Talks]]'' (2020)
# ''[[The Dresden Files/Battle Ground|Battle Ground]]'' (2020)
Novels 1 - 9 have been collected in 4 different omnibus editions, ''Wizard for Hire, Wizard by Trade, Wizard at Large'' and ''Wizard Under Fire''.
Additionally, there are 31 short stories:
# "Something Borrowed" (published in ''My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding'' and ''Side Jobs'')
# "It's My Birthday, Too" (published in ''Many Bloody Returns'' and ''Side Jobs'')
# "Heorot" (published in ''Many Bloody Returns'' and ''Side Jobs'')
# "Harry's Day Off" (published in ''Blood Lite'' and ''Side Jobs'')
# "Backup" (published in ''Side Jobs'')
# "The Warrior" (published in ''Mean Streets'' and ''Side Jobs'')
# "Last Call" (published in ''Strange Brew'' and ''Side Jobs'')
# "AAAA Wizardry" (published in the ''Our World'' RPG Book and ''Brief Cases'')
# "Even Hand" (published in ''Dark and Stormy Knights'' and ''Brief Cases'')
# "Restoration of Faith" (published in ''Side Jobs'')
# "Publicity and Advertising" (published in ''Side Jobs'')
# "Aftermath" (published in ''Side Jobs'')
# "Love Hurts" (published in ''Songs of Love and Death'' and ''Side Jobs'')
# "Curses" (published in ''The Naked City'' and ''Brief Cases'')
# "I Was a Teenage Bigfoot" (published in ''Working for Bigfoot'' and ''Brief Cases'')
# "Bigfoot on Campus" (published in ''Hex Appeal'', ''Working for Bigfoot'', and ''Brief Cases'')
# "B is for Bigfoot" (published in ''Working for Bigfoot'' and ''Brief Cases'')
# "Bombshells" (published in ''Brief Cases'')
# "Jury Duty" (published in ''Brief Cases'')
# "Cold Case" (published in ''Brief Cases'')
# "Day One" (published in ''Brief Cases'')
# "A Fistful of Warlocks" (published in ''Brief Cases'')
# "Zoo Day" (published in ''Brief Cases'')
# "Christmas Eve"
# "Monsters"
# "Mike" (published on the author's website)
# "Journal" (published on the author's website)
# "Goodbye" (published on the author's website)
# "Job Placement" (published on the author's website)
# "Everything the Light Touches" (published on the author's website)
# "The Good People" (published on the author's website)
# ''Welcome to the Jungle'': A prequel to the series.
# ''Storm Front'': An adaptation of the first novel.
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Two adaptations and spinoffs have been made so far:
* A single season TV adaptation was produced in 2007 and can be viewed [https://web.archive.org/web/20120125005915/http://www.hulu.com/the-dresden-files?c=Science-Fiction here]; tropes specific to it go on [[The Dresden Files (TV series)|its own page]].
* A Tabletop RPG set in the world of the series. Trope Page [[The Dresden Files (
In addition to the page links at the top, there is also a [[The Dresden Files/Shout Out|shout out]] page. The recap [[The Dresden Files/Recap|page]] is under major construction, so help with it would be appreciated.
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