{
  "id": "candyman",
  "title": "Candyman",
  "description": "The legend across four films, Clive Barker’s original Liverpool story, its audio editions and the official shadow-puppet narrative. Modern film years are separated from release dates, with the revival’s relationship to the older sequels kept visible.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "screen",
      "label": "Films — inclusive screen chronology",
      "note": "All four released films stay visible. Farewell to the Flesh and Day of the Dead are legitimate sequels to the original; their applicability to the 2021 revival is disputed because that film bypasses them. The disputed toggle removes those legacy sequel stories without creating a separate universe for every film."
    },
    {
      "id": "prose",
      "label": "The Forbidden — original Liverpool story & audio",
      "note": "The source story’s Liverpool setting and different legend belong to its own rendition, rather than an invented prequel to Chicago. Printed and audio versions share one story position. Only The Forbidden from Books of Blood is in this franchise scope, not every unrelated Barker story."
    }
  ],
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "daniel-origin",
      "title": "Daniel Robitaille — screen legend / origin recollections",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "1890; origin recalled in the films",
      "order": 1890,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1992 / 1995 / 2021",
      "description": "The murdered artist becomes a figure of supernatural vengeance.",
      "note": "Optional historical segment, not a separate feature. The 1890 screen-history anchor is supplied by the official collection’s distribution description; different films reshape the telling. This is not the original Liverpool story’s backstory.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "collection",
        "first",
        "barker-second"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1890",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D934D35",
      "productName": "Candyman 2-Movie Collection — DVD",
      "productMatch": "Verified containing edition: Candyman (1992) and Candyman (2021), two discs. This is not the second and third films. No availability / seller condition promised.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "daniel-origin",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "sherman",
      "title": "Candyman (2021) — Sherman Fields prologue",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "1977",
      "order": 1977,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2021",
      "description": "A boy’s encounter with Sherman becomes part of Cabrini-Green’s legend.",
      "note": "Substantial opening flashback, separated from the film’s 2019 main narrative. Year cross-checked in contemporary film inspection; not claimed as a directly inspected title card.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "1977",
        "revival"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1977",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D934D35",
      "productName": "Candyman 2-Movie Collection — DVD",
      "productMatch": "Verified containing edition: Candyman (1992) and Candyman (2021), two discs. This is not the second and third films. No availability / seller condition promised.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "sherman",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "shadow-teaser",
      "title": "Candyman — Nia DaCosta / Manual Cinema narrative teaser",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "19th–20th centuries; historical and legendary vignettes",
      "order": 1991.9,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2020",
      "description": "Shadow puppetry connects the legend with a history of racist violence.",
      "note": "An anthology-like historical window, placed with the background to the modern films. No single 2020 story date inferred from upload, and real victims are not casually declared fictional canon. Exact vignette dates await direct inspection of this teaser cut.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "teaser",
        "teaser-creator",
        "teaser-release"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "19th–20th centuries",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Era known; exact sequence open",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://twitter.com/NiaDaCosta/status/1273293842113089536",
      "productName": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "productMatch": "Exact original director-posted teaser. X may require sign-in. No standalone Amazon release verified; Manual Cinema’s related official film is a separate viewing destination.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch filmmaker’s short",
      "storyGroup": "shadow-teaser",
      "eraWindow": true,
      "productLinks": [
        {
          "productUrl": "https://manualcinema.com/work/candyman",
          "productName": "Watch creator’s related puppet film",
          "productMatch": "Creator-hosted 2:32 film, sampled directly. Exact equivalence to the 2020 teaser not asserted.",
          "actionLabel": "Watch creator’s related puppet film"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "candyman-1992",
      "title": "Candyman — theatrical / unrated versions",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "1992; Helen’s Chicago investigation",
      "order": 1992,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1992",
      "description": "A graduate student’s urban-legend research brings her face to face with Candyman.",
      "note": "Modern source-film anchor used by sequel chronology. Edited / unrated versions remain this story; older legends and Helen’s later retelling are not separate modern adventures.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "first",
        "barker-first",
        "legacy-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1992",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D934D35",
      "productName": "Candyman 2-Movie Collection — DVD",
      "productMatch": "Verified containing edition: Candyman (1992) and Candyman (2021), two discs. This is not the second and third films. No availability / seller condition promised.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "candyman-1992"
    },
    {
      "id": "coleman",
      "title": "Farewell to the Flesh — Coleman’s earlier death",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "est. 1994; one year before the sequel’s main crisis",
      "order": 1994,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "1995",
      "description": "An earlier family death shapes Annie and Ethan’s predicament.",
      "note": "Optional backstory, using the reported one-year interval. Status concerns integration with the revival, not whether this was an official film scene.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "second-clock",
        "barker-second"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "est. 1994 · −1 year",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OAIHJ0C",
      "productName": "Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Corresponding second film, not a box set including the first or third; confirm seller condition / region.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "coleman",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "farewell",
      "title": "Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "1995; Mardi Gras, three years after the first film",
      "order": 1995,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "1995",
      "description": "Annie Tarrant uncovers a family connection to the haunting in New Orleans.",
      "note": "Original-trilogy sequel retained in the inclusive film timeline. Its three-year relationship supplies the modern position. The 2021 revival bypasses this genealogy; their shared applicability is disputed, rather than this official sequel being erased.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "barker-second",
        "afi",
        "legacy-clock",
        "revival-creator"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1995 · +3 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OAIHJ0C",
      "productName": "Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Corresponding second film, not a box set including the first or third; confirm seller condition / region.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "farewell"
    },
    {
      "id": "farewell-epilogue",
      "title": "Farewell to the Flesh — Caroline’s childhood epilogue",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "est. 2000; five years after the main story",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "1995",
      "description": "Annie warns her daughter about a dangerous name.",
      "note": "A real time jump kept separate as an optional segment. Five-year interval is reported in the film synopsis; a complete frame / dialogue verification remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "second-clock",
        "legacy-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "est. 2000 · +5 years",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OAIHJ0C",
      "productName": "Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Corresponding second film, not a box set including the first or third; confirm seller condition / region.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "farewell-epilogue",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "candyman-2021",
      "title": "Candyman (2021) — Anthony & Brianna’s main story",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "2019; modern Chicago revival",
      "order": 2019,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2021",
      "description": "Anthony’s art draws him into the legend and its surviving witnesses.",
      "note": "Story year explicitly reported as 2019 in contemporary film inspection. Release was delayed to 2021. This is a direct continuation of the original, not a retelling placed at 1992; the older sequels remain visible with qualified status.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "revival",
        "2019",
        "1977",
        "revival-creator"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "2019",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D934D35",
      "productName": "Candyman 2-Movie Collection — DVD",
      "productMatch": "Verified containing edition: Candyman (1992) and Candyman (2021), two discs. This is not the second and third films. No availability / seller condition promised.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "revival"
    },
    {
      "id": "shadow-film",
      "title": "Candyman — Manual Cinema’s shadow-puppet film",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "2019 framing; 19th–20th-century stories recalled",
      "order": 2019,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2021",
      "description": "Puppet storytelling gives visible form to the legend’s accumulated history.",
      "note": "Creator-hosted 2:32 film indexed alongside the revival. Earlier vignettes are recalled history, not all events literally happening in 2019. Not counted again as an extra feature or automatically equated to the 2020 teaser.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "manual",
        "revival"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "2019 / earlier centuries",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Creator player started and sample narrative imagery visually inspected; not a complete frame-by-frame date audit.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://manualcinema.com/work/candyman",
      "productName": "Watch on creator’s site",
      "productMatch": "Original creator-hosted Vimeo film played; a legitimate free narrative destination.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on creator’s site",
      "storyGroup": "revival",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "revival-alternate",
      "title": "Candyman (2021) — alternate ending / deleted & extended scenes",
      "type": "Film supplements",
      "date": "2019 source-story position",
      "order": 2019,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2021 home video",
      "description": "Supplemental scenes offer alternate versions of the same crisis.",
      "note": "Grouped with the containing film, not made into an independently dated sequel. Deleted / alternate material is distinct from the released ending; full supplements not inspected in this audit.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "revival",
        "collection"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "2019",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D934D35",
      "productName": "Candyman 2-Movie Collection — DVD",
      "productMatch": "Verified containing edition: Candyman (1992) and Candyman (2021), two discs. This is not the second and third films. No availability / seller condition promised.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "revival",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "day-dead",
      "title": "Candyman: Day of the Dead",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. 2020; reported twenty-five-year sequel interval",
      "order": 2020,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "1999",
      "description": "Caroline McKeever confronts the family legend in Los Angeles.",
      "note": "Estimated from the reported twenty-five years after the 1995 story, not from its 1999 release. References vary and no exact calendar caption was inspected. It remains in the best-supported position, with revival-continuity status qualified.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "barker-third",
        "legacy-clock",
        "third-clock",
        "third-dialogue"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "est. 2020 · +25 years",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/6305622760",
      "productName": "Candyman: Day of the Dead — DVD",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Corresponding 1999 production with Donna D’Errico; fictional date is later. Confirm selected format and seller condition.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "day-dead"
    },
    {
      "id": "day-dead-epilogue",
      "title": "Day of the Dead — investigation epilogue",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "est. 2021; one year after the main murders",
      "order": 2021,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "1999",
      "description": "The official explanation of the killings is announced after an investigation.",
      "note": "Dialogue transcription explicitly describes a year-long investigation. The year is derived from the provisional 2020 main-story anchor; the interval is firmer than that calendar.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "third-dialogue",
        "third-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "est. 2021 · +1 year",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/6305622760",
      "productName": "Candyman: Day of the Dead — DVD",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title checked. Corresponding 1999 production with Donna D’Errico; fictional date is later. Confirm selected format and seller condition.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "day-dead-epilogue",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "forbidden",
      "title": "The Forbidden — original short story",
      "type": "Short story",
      "date": "Late 20th century; contemporary Liverpool",
      "order": 1985,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1985; subsequent reprints",
      "description": "Helen investigates an urban legend on a Liverpool housing estate.",
      "note": "Original rendition retained separately because the screen adaptation relocates and substantially changes the legend. Contemporary period is supported; 1985 publication is not asserted as an exact fictional year. Full text not acquired from the publisher sample.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book",
        "book-bibliography",
        "book-us",
        "guide"
      ],
      "continuity": "prose",
      "railLabel": "Late 20th century",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671612700",
      "productName": "In the Flesh — Clive Barker paperback, Books of Blood Volume Five",
      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon title / author / Paperback format checked. Containing collection for The Forbidden; it also includes unrelated stories. Not a film novelization and not Volumes One–Three.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "forbidden"
    },
    {
      "id": "forbidden-audio",
      "title": "The Forbidden — unabridged audio editions",
      "type": "Audiobook",
      "date": "Late 20th century; same Liverpool story",
      "order": 1985,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1996 / 2000 / 2013 readings",
      "description": "Narrated editions present Barker’s original story in audio.",
      "note": "Same story position as the printed text. Known editions: In the Flesh (Dillinger Steele), The Reel Stuff anthology (Vanessa Maroney), and Crossroad’s Volume Five ensemble. These readings are not new narrative sequels.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "audio",
        "audio-current",
        "book"
      ],
      "continuity": "prose",
      "railLabel": "Late 20th century",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Books-of-Blood-Volume-5-Audiobook/B00HHE2KCS",
      "productName": "View matching audiobook",
      "productMatch": "Exact current containing Crossroad audio edition identified on Audible UK. The older recordings differ; no Amazon US ASIN or marketplace tracking ID invented. Printed containing edition is separately available in this group.",
      "actionLabel": "View matching audiobook",
      "storyGroup": "forbidden"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "first",
      "title": "Universal — Candyman (1992)",
      "url": "https://www.universalpicturesathome.com/movies/candyman-1992",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official film synopsis, release and edition inventory. Modern story is Helen’s Chicago investigation; subtitle variants and unrated cuts do not create new years."
    },
    {
      "id": "revival",
      "title": "Universal — Candyman (2021)",
      "url": "https://www.universalpicturesathome.com/movies/candyman-2021",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official direct continuation’s premise and editions. Page distinguishes 2020 copyright from 2021 release; neither is evidence of the fictional 2019 setting. Deleted / extended scenes and alternate ending are edition supplements, not another released sequel."
    },
    {
      "id": "barker-first",
      "title": "Barker’s official archive — Candyman / Bernard Rose interviews",
      "url": "https://www.clivebarker.info/candyman.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Creator interviews discuss adapting The Forbidden and moving the story to Chicago. The source story is not a novelization written after the film."
    },
    {
      "id": "barker-second",
      "title": "Barker’s official archive — Farewell to the Flesh",
      "url": "https://www.clivebarker.info/candyman2.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official creator archive confirms released sequel and origins material. Does not itself certify every modern calendar caption."
    },
    {
      "id": "barker-third",
      "title": "Barker’s official archive — Day of the Dead",
      "url": "https://www.clivebarker.info/candyman3.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official archive confirms third released film. Barker’s negative opinion and lack of creative involvement are not, by themselves, grounds for excluding an official sequel."
    },
    {
      "id": "afi",
      "title": "AFI — Farewell to the Flesh release / production record",
      "url": "https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/MovieDetails/59845",
      "kind": "Film archive",
      "note": "Independent film bibliography / credits; used to identify the 1995 film, not to equate release date automatically with setting."
    },
    {
      "id": "second-clock",
      "title": "Farewell to the Flesh — plot / five-year epilogue cross-check",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman:_Farewell_to_the_Flesh",
      "kind": "Secondary / film synopsis",
      "note": "Modern sequel, earlier Coleman death, Daniel’s past and five-year epilogue. Interior film frames not inspected in full; calendar arithmetic is qualified."
    },
    {
      "id": "legacy-clock",
      "title": "Candyman character — legacy sequel intervals",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_(character)",
      "kind": "Secondary / chronology",
      "note": "Reports the three-year first-to-second and twenty-five-year second-to-third intervals. Used provisionally; the third film’s exact calendar needs direct verification."
    },
    {
      "id": "third-clock",
      "title": "Day of the Dead — release / chronology cross-check",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_3:_Day_of_the_Dead",
      "kind": "Secondary / film reference",
      "note": "Older descriptions place it in 2020, while calendar references vary. Retain estimated 2020 from the reported twenty-five-year interval, rather than treat the 1999 release as its setting."
    },
    {
      "id": "third-dialogue",
      "title": "Day of the Dead — dialogue transcript",
      "url": "https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=candyman-3-day-of-the-dead",
      "kind": "Secondary / dialogue transcript",
      "note": "Transcript checked for elapsed-time clues: the closing investigation lasts a year. This is a secondary transcription, not a verified original screenplay or full frame inspection. It does not independently establish an exact 2020 title card."
    },
    {
      "id": "2019",
      "title": "TheWrap — contemporary film inspection",
      "url": "https://www.thewrap.com/candyman-film-review-2021-nia-dacosta-jordan-peele/",
      "kind": "Secondary / contemporary review",
      "note": "Explicitly distinguishes main story in 2019 Chicago from pandemic-delayed 2021 release. Also notes the two earlier sequels are bypassed."
    },
    {
      "id": "1977",
      "title": "Washington Post — opening and main-story years",
      "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/candyman-movie-review/2021/08/25/6ec93ca2-02a8-11ec-ba7e-2cf966e88e93_story.html",
      "kind": "Secondary / contemporary film inspection",
      "note": "1977 prologue; 2019 main story. Used only for that chronology cross-check, not a substitute for complete film inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "revival-creator",
      "title": "Nia DaCosta / Yahya Abdul-Mateen II — ending interview",
      "url": "https://www.etonline.com/candyman-spoilers-nia-dacosta-and-yahya-abdul-mateen-discuss-that-ending-exclusive-171100",
      "kind": "Primary creator interview",
      "note": "Director / actor interview confirms direct original-film connection and discusses the new incarnation. Introductory “30 years” is rounded; it is not used to replace the more specific 2019 setting."
    },
    {
      "id": "book",
      "title": "Sphere / Hachette — Books of Blood Volume 5 contents",
      "url": "https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/titles/clive-barker-2/books-of-blood-volume-5/9780751564068/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher confirms The Forbidden is in Volume Five. Read Excerpt link checked, but browser did not provide readable story pages; no claim of a complete text inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-bibliography",
      "title": "Barker’s official bibliography — The Forbidden editions",
      "url": "https://www.clivebarker.info/bloodforms5.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Summer 1985 Fantasy Tales appearance and later complete reprints listed. Those are formats / containing editions of one story, not a succession of new fictional events. No published Forbidden comic listed."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-us",
      "title": "Barker’s official bibliography — Volume Five / In the Flesh",
      "url": "https://clivebarker.info/blood456bib.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "US title In the Flesh is Volume Five; it is not the unrelated title story alone. Do not send readers to the common Volumes One–Three omnibus as if it contained The Forbidden."
    },
    {
      "id": "audio",
      "title": "Barker’s official audio bibliography",
      "url": "https://www.clivebarker.info/audio.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Audio editions verified: 1996 In the Flesh narrated by Dillinger Steele; The Forbidden in 2000 The Reel Stuff narrated by Vanessa Maroney; 2013 Crossroad Volume Five, ensemble narrators. These are readings of the source story, not new Chicago sequels."
    },
    {
      "id": "audio-current",
      "title": "Audible — Crossroad Press Volume Five",
      "url": "https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Books-of-Blood-Volume-5-Audiobook/B00HHE2KCS",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Containing unabridged audio edition; official retailer synopsis identifies The Forbidden as first story. No Amazon US audio ASIN inferred by changing a UK marketplace identifier."
    },
    {
      "id": "unmade-comic",
      "title": "Barker’s official archive — unfinished graphic adaptations",
      "url": "https://www.clivebarker.info/othersold.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Other Books of Blood as Graphic Novels section identifies Steve Niles’s planned 32-page The Forbidden adaptation with John K. Snyder III attached. It is in the unfinished-project archive; not invented as a published 1992 movie comic."
    },
    {
      "id": "manual",
      "title": "Manual Cinema — original puppet film / production page",
      "url": "https://manualcinema.com/work/candyman",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Creator-hosted original 2:32 puppet film played and sample images inspected. Credit / image catalogue includes Helen, Anthony and historical imagery. This hosted film is not automatically identified as the same cut as the earlier 2020 teaser."
    },
    {
      "id": "teaser",
      "title": "Director’s original animated teaser",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/NiaDaCosta/status/1273293842113089536",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact director-posted June 2020 narrative teaser URL recovered from Barker’s official archive. Current X playback may require sign-in; the full original tweet video was not directly inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "teaser-creator",
      "title": "Barker archive — director’s animated teaser statement",
      "url": "https://www.clivebarker.info/candyman2020.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Separately links the director’s animated trailer and the later standard trailer; credits Manual Cinema. The site’s 2020 title reflects the then-planned film release, not proof of a separate 2020 feature."
    },
    {
      "id": "teaser-release",
      "title": "Contemporary record — June 17, 2020 puppet teaser",
      "url": "https://www.newcityfilm.com/2020/09/17/fall-arts-preview-2020-manual-cinemas-candyman-dream/",
      "kind": "Secondary / contemporary release record",
      "note": "Contemporaneous record of the separately released shadow-puppet narrative, not merely a compilation of existing movie footage."
    },
    {
      "id": "guide",
      "title": "Universal — Candyman official companion guide",
      "url": "https://dx35vtwkllhj9.cloudfront.net/universalstudios/candyman-social-impact/syllabus/Candyman_TheOfficialCompanionGuide_Final.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official reference guide contextualizes the Liverpool source and Chicago adaptation. A nonfiction companion, not an additional sequel or story product."
    },
    {
      "id": "collection",
      "title": "Universal collection — actual Amazon edition",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D934D35",
      "kind": "Official distribution / product inspection",
      "note": "Exact product title and description read. Two films are Bernard Rose’s 1992 original and DaCosta’s 2021 film, not Farewell to the Flesh / Day of the Dead. Description anchors the screen legend to 1890."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "The Forbidden — planned Steve Niles / John K. Snyder III graphic adaptation",
      "type": "Comic",
      "status": "Unfinished project; not a verified released issue",
      "note": "Official archive places this 32-page project among unfinished graphic adaptations. No legal published issue / preview located. An unsupported claim of a 1992 Candyman movie comic is not enough to invent an entry or sell an unrelated Books of Blood comic.",
      "sources": [
        "unmade-comic",
        "book-bibliography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Supposed Candyman film novelization",
      "type": "Novel",
      "status": "Unverified product claim",
      "note": "No separate author, ISBN and publisher record verified. The actual source story / In the Flesh tie-in reprints are included; a movie-cover reissue is not proof of a new novelization.",
      "sources": [
        "book-bibliography",
        "book-us",
        "barker-first"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Other Books of Blood stories and Barker’s The Forbidden experimental film",
      "type": "Literature / film",
      "status": "Outside this story scope",
      "note": "The collection’s other tales, Barker’s unrelated earlier experimental film with the same title, and the later Books of Blood screen anthology do not automatically form Candyman’s history.",
      "sources": [
        "book",
        "book-bibliography"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Candyman IV winter story / Midnight Meat Train sequel / Leprechaun crossover",
      "type": "Unmade film projects",
      "status": "Not released narrative entries",
      "note": "Historical development ideas are not completed films. Nor are actor casting, fan games or custom fighting-game characters proof of an official narrative game. No released licensed Candyman story game, TV series or manga verified in this audit.",
      "sources": [
        "barker-third",
        "unmade-comic",
        "2019"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Companion guide, making-of films, scores, interviews and standard trailers",
      "type": "Reference / promotion",
      "status": "Sources and editions, not extra adventures",
      "note": "Official guide and production documentaries provide research context. Standard feature clips repeat the containing film; separately released puppet narrative is indexed. Pure soundtrack / interview releases are not assigned fictional years.",
      "sources": [
        "guide",
        "revival",
        "manual",
        "teaser"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-20",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Pre-build research table produced before page generation; four completed films checked against studio / official creator archives and film bibliography. All four remain visible in one inclusive screen chronology.",
      "1992 → 1995 three-year relation; five-year epilogue; 2019 revival versus 2021 release; provisional 2020 Day of the Dead versus 1999 release; year-long closing investigation considered separately.",
      "Exact subtitle / release / setting distinctions reviewed. Day of the Dead’s calendar is explicitly estimated because direct date-caption evidence remains unavailable.",
      "Original Liverpool prose and audio share a story position. All relevant Volume Five editions distinguished from the unrelated Volumes One–Three omnibus. Historical readings listed without claiming the current recording is the same performance.",
      "Official unfinished-comic archive checked: planned Forbidden adaptation not invented as a released comic. Unsupported film-novelization claim not converted into a fake title / Amazon match.",
      "Director-posted 2020 narrative teaser and creator-hosted 2021 puppet film distinguished; embedded original film sampled, but full teaser inspection remains open.",
      "Amazon actual collection contents, second-film Blu-ray, third-film DVD and In the Flesh paperback titles checked. No sweets documentary, toy, unrelated game or wrong comic sold as a narrative match."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Complete source-story text and full film / supplement interiors not directly inspected. Publisher excerpt control did not expose readable story pages. No false claim that the prose has no printed date.",
      "Legacy sequel exact calendar props and reported twenty-five-year interval require direct film verification. Estimated 2020 is a disclosed working chronology; later evidence can refine it.",
      "Director’s original 2020 teaser URL recovered, but complete tweet video not directly inspected. Creator’s related 2:32 film is accessible and sampled; the two cuts are not asserted identical.",
      "No released Forbidden comic or separate film novelization was verified. New bibliographic or publisher evidence should be checked before adding these as released works."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}