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  "id": "halloween",
  "title": "Halloween / Michael Myers",
  "description": "Compare the genuinely different Michael Myers histories, with film adaptations beside their source stories, licensed comics and prose, and the 1978-set game. Dates distinguish stated intervals from estimates; inaccessible comic interiors remain explicit research gaps.",
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      "id": "green",
      "label": "1978 → Halloween / Kills / Ends",
      "note": "The modern trilogy follows the original film, without the sibling reveal or the 1981 hospital sequel."
    },
    {
      "id": "thorn",
      "label": "1978 → II → 4–6",
      "note": "The Jamie Lloyd / Thorn history; not an intermediate chapter in the H20 or modern-trilogy histories."
    },
    {
      "id": "h20",
      "label": "1978 → II → H20 / Resurrection & tie-ins",
      "note": "Laurie survives as Keri Tate. Hutchinson’s licensed stories belong here rather than being separated merely because their status is qualified."
    },
    {
      "id": "zombie",
      "label": "Rob Zombie’s remake history",
      "note": "A different childhood and adult return; theatrical and director’s-cut sequel dates conflict and are identified as variants."
    },
    {
      "id": "silver",
      "label": "Season of the Witch",
      "note": "A separate Silver Shamrock narrative; Michael Myers appears as a movie on television."
    },
    {
      "id": "connected",
      "label": "Other licensed stories / crossovers",
      "note": "An access shelf for explicitly incompatible or crossover narratives, not an assertion that all these works share one world."
    }
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      "order": 2018.83,
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      "release": "2021",
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        "edition-halloween-kills"
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      "title": "Halloween Kills — Tim Waggoner novelization",
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      "order": 2018.84,
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      "release": "2021",
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      "estimated": false,
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      "estimated": false,
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      "order": 2022.83,
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      "release": "2022",
      "description": "Corey’s ostracism intersects with Laurie’s final confrontation.",
      "note": "Studio states four years after Kills: 2018 + 4 = 2022.",
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      ],
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      "railLabel": "October 2022",
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      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
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      "estimated": false,
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      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "The finale with expanded history between the films.",
      "note": "Grouped with its source. Individual new flashbacks need original text before exact interleaving; do not treat the whole book as a single 2022 day.",
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        "ends"
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      "date": "est. age 9–10; fifteen years before adult return",
      "order": 1992,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "Michael’s childhood and confinement in the remake.",
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      "id": "z-main",
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      "order": 2007,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "A reimagined return to Haddonfield.",
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      "title": "Halloween II (2009) — theatrical / director’s-cut variants",
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      "order": 2008,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2009",
      "description": "Laurie struggles with the aftermath of the remake.",
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      "title": "Halloween III: Season of the Witch",
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      "order": 1982.83,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1982",
      "description": "Silver Shamrock prepares a deadly broadcast.",
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      "productMatch": "Exact Amazon destination recovered from the rights-holder’s corresponding film page. Check edition / region; television additions or alternate cuts are not automatically included.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "silver"
    },
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      "title": "Halloween III: Season of the Witch — Jack Martin novelization",
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      "date": "Late October; est. 1982",
      "order": 1982.83,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "1982",
      "description": "The mask conspiracy retold in prose.",
      "note": "Same-story adaptation, not a Michael Myers sequel. Original text still needed for exact year / additional backstory.",
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      ],
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      "segment": false,
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      "title": "The First Death of Laurie Strode #1–2 — published run",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "After October 1978; 1978–1979 school year",
      "order": 1979,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008–2009",
      "description": "Laurie struggles after the first two films.",
      "note": "The author dates the intended conclusion to Halloween 1979, but only #1–2 were published. Group published connected run; do not count the unmade third issue as released.",
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
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      "estimated": false,
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      "title": "Halloween: Nightdance #1–4",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Halloween 2000; earlier recollections embedded",
      "order": 2000.83,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Lisa Thomas encounters Michael in Russellville.",
      "note": "Group the continuous main run. 2000 reported by the work review; full lettered interiors / earlier flashbacks remain to check.",
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        "nightdance",
        "comic-creator"
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.midtowncomics.com/p/965992-halloween-nightdance-1-2nd-ptg",
      "productName": "Read story / edition research",
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      "id": "autopsis",
      "title": "Halloween: Autopsis",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. early 1990s; before Sam / H20",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "A photographer pursues Loomis and the Shape.",
      "note": "Page-level chronology suggests 1993; keep an estimate until original comic confirms. DVD-insert publication date does not date this story.",
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        "comic-25",
        "interleaving"
      ],
      "continuity": "h20",
      "railLabel": "est. early 1990s; before Sam / H20",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
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      "estimated": true,
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      "id": "sam",
      "title": "Halloween: Sam",
      "type": "Illustrated prose short",
      "date": "est. 1995 main frame; World War II / 1963 / 1998 material embedded",
      "order": 1995,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Loomis’s final year and earlier life.",
      "note": "Contemporary 2008 announcement overrides later 2010 database date. Candidate January / February 1995 dates need original PDF before being presented as exact.",
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        "sam",
        "interleaving"
      ],
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      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
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      "id": "white-ghost",
      "title": "Halloween: White Ghost",
      "type": "Prose short",
      "date": "October 1978; earlier personal history embedded",
      "order": 1978.82,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008–2009 web publication",
      "description": "The tow-truck driver’s final journey.",
      "note": "Author explicitly ties its present action to Michael’s escape / original coveralls scene. It is prose, not a fully illustrated comic. Original full text still needed for exact earlier dates.",
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        "white"
      ],
      "continuity": "h20",
      "railLabel": "October 1978; earlier personal history embedded",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
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      "productMatch": "Original author commentary; former official full-story link may no longer resolve.",
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      "title": "Halloween: Charlie — Nightdance collection bonus",
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      "date": "Before 1978; exact decade unverified",
      "order": 1960,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Russellville’s Charlie Bowles story expands the background.",
      "note": "The original film already mentions the earlier killings. Do not invent an exact year from the 2008 collection date; broad pre-1978 window overlaps the earlier history.",
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      ],
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      "railLabel": "< 1978",
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      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
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      "estimated": false,
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      "title": "30 Years of Terror — Trick or Treat",
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      "date": "October 1978 main recollection; later modern-era frame",
      "order": 1978.83,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "The MacKenzies receive an urgent visit.",
      "note": "1978 side story around Tommy and Lindsey’s flight. Mary’s later elderly frame is separately represented below; do not date the later return 1978. Complete original interior not inspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "comic-line"
      ],
      "continuity": "h20",
      "railLabel": "Halloween night, 1978",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
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      "title": "30 Years of Terror — P.O.V.",
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      "date": "est. 1991; contemporary pageant clue",
      "order": 1991,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "A pageant winner faces the Shape.",
      "note": "Reviewer reports Miss Haddonfield 1991; exact attack date requires original panels. Original full interior not inspected.",
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        "white",
        "interleaving"
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      "continuity": "h20",
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      "title": "30 Years of Terror — Visiting Hours",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. 1998–2001; Laurie’s institutional period",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Laurie imagines a different life.",
      "note": "Framing imagined scenes do not create an actual alternate childhood. Broad frame between H20 and Resurrection requires interior confirmation. Original full interior not inspected.",
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        "h30",
        "white",
        "interleaving"
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      "order": 1995,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Tommy turns trauma into comic stories.",
      "note": "Author commentary explains the Thorn films as Tommy’s fictional comics on this route. No merger of real film histories. Original full interior not inspected.",
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      "title": "30 Years of Terror — Repetition Compulsion",
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      "order": 1989.83,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Loomis tries to anticipate Michael.",
      "note": "Reported dated setting; this H20-route story does not reinstate Halloween 5’s Jamie storyline. Original full interior not inspected.",
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        "interleaving"
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      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://brettmilam.com/2020/08/07/halloween-30-years-of-terror/",
      "productName": "Read story / edition research",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding licensed narrative inventory. No unrelated movie offered as if it contained this comic; original edition availability remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "Read story / edition research",
      "storyGroup": "h30-repetition",
      "eraWindow": false
    },
    {
      "id": "one-scare",
      "title": "Halloween: One Good Scare",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. 2003–2004; after Resurrection",
      "order": 2003.83,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2003",
      "description": "Lindsey Wallace seeks help from David Loomis.",
      "note": "Source accounts conflict on 2003 versus a 2004 later scene. Keep a range until original comic resolves both frames; no new continuity solely for this uncertainty.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "comic-25"
      ],
      "continuity": "h20",
      "railLabel": "est. 2003–2004; after Resurrection",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://bloody-disgusting.com/comics/3591753/shape-four-colors-michael-myers-comic-book-carnage-part-two-25th-anniversary-trilogy/",
      "productName": "Read story / edition research",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding licensed narrative inventory. No unrelated movie offered as if it contained this comic; original edition availability remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "Read story / edition research",
      "storyGroup": "one-scare",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "site-files",
      "title": "HalloweenComics — newspaper / morgue narrative files",
      "type": "Web fiction",
      "date": "1978 case history; other file dates unverified",
      "order": 1978.9,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2000s official website",
      "description": "In-universe documents expand the Haddonfield case.",
      "note": "Author verifies published obituary / morgue information, distinct from location histories he says remained unpublished. Individual surviving files require archive inspection.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "white"
      ],
      "continuity": "h20",
      "railLabel": "1978 case history; other file dates unverified",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://thecomingevil.blogspot.com/2009/12/halloween-white-ghost-story-behind.html",
      "productName": "Read author’s archive account",
      "productMatch": "Evidence of actual narrative files; not a claim the defunct website still supplies them.",
      "actionLabel": "Read author’s archive account",
      "storyGroup": "site-files",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "chaos",
      "title": "Halloween / II: The Blackest Eyes / III: The Devil’s Eyes",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "After H20; est. late 1990s frame, earlier recollections",
      "order": 1999,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2000–2001",
      "description": "Tommy Doyle pursues an alternative legacy of Michael.",
      "note": "Three connected Chaos one-shots grouped. Alternate Laurie outcome conflicts with Resurrection; do not silently bridge the two film routes.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "chaos"
      ],
      "continuity": "connected",
      "railLabel": "After H20; est. late 1990s frame, earlier recollections",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.denofgeek.com/books/halloween-comics-the-weird-history-of-michael-myers-on-the-page/",
      "productName": "Read story / edition research",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding licensed narrative inventory. No unrelated movie offered as if it contained this comic; original edition availability remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "Read story / edition research",
      "storyGroup": "chaos",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ya-scream-factory",
      "title": "Halloween — The Scream Factory",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. late twentieth century; Halloween season",
      "order": 1995,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "1997",
      "description": "A haunted attraction becomes Michael’s hunting ground.",
      "note": "Licensed Berkley original with a different cast. Included as assumed connected material on the inclusive H20 route; exact compatibility and inter-book order remain unverified. Broad contemporary window does not equate publication and fictional years.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "ya"
      ],
      "continuity": "h20",
      "railLabel": "est. late twentieth century; Halloween season",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.wickedhorror.com/features/retrospectives/haddonfield-high-remembering-halloween-young-adult-books/",
      "productName": "Read book / edition research",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding book inventoried; no verified Amazon edition substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Read book / edition research",
      "storyGroup": "ya-scream-factory",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ya-old-place",
      "title": "Halloween — The Old Myers Place",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. late twentieth century; Halloween season",
      "order": 1995,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "1997",
      "description": "A new family moves into the Myers house.",
      "note": "Licensed Berkley original with a different cast. Included as assumed connected material on the inclusive H20 route; exact compatibility and inter-book order remain unverified. Broad contemporary window does not equate publication and fictional years.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "ya"
      ],
      "continuity": "h20",
      "railLabel": "est. late twentieth century; Halloween season",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.wickedhorror.com/features/retrospectives/haddonfield-high-remembering-halloween-young-adult-books/",
      "productName": "Read book / edition research",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding book inventoried; no verified Amazon edition substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Read book / edition research",
      "storyGroup": "ya-old-place",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ya-mad-house",
      "title": "Halloween — The Mad House",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "est. late twentieth century; Halloween season",
      "order": 1995,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "1998",
      "description": "A documentary crew visits Smith’s Grove.",
      "note": "Licensed Berkley original with a different cast. Included as assumed connected material on the inclusive H20 route; exact compatibility and inter-book order remain unverified. Broad contemporary window does not equate publication and fictional years.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "ya"
      ],
      "continuity": "h20",
      "railLabel": "est. late twentieth century; Halloween season",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.wickedhorror.com/features/retrospectives/haddonfield-high-remembering-halloween-young-adult-books/",
      "productName": "Read book / edition research",
      "productMatch": "Exact corresponding book inventoried; no verified Amazon edition substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Read book / edition research",
      "storyGroup": "ya-mad-house",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "game26",
      "title": "Halloween: The Game — single-player campaign",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "October 30–31, 1978",
      "order": 1978.83,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2026",
      "description": "Experience the original night from Michael’s perspective.",
      "note": "Developer calls this a reimagined extended cut; place beside its source story. Player-driven additional events are qualified rather than declared universal film canon.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "game",
        "game-current"
      ],
      "continuity": "green",
      "railLabel": "October 30–31, 1978",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://halloweengame.com/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Exact game and platform links. No unverified physical ASIN.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "storyGroup": "original-green"
    },
    {
      "id": "game-comic",
      "title": "Halloween: The Game — Digital Deluxe comic",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Era unverified; original digital comic needed",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2026",
      "description": "The deluxe edition includes a licensed digital comic.",
      "note": "Edition contents verified; title and interior not available in this pass. The game’s 1978 setting alone does not prove this comic uses the same dates.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "game-deluxe",
        "game"
      ],
      "continuity": "green",
      "railLabel": "Era unverified",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/IllFonic?l=english",
      "productName": "View official deluxe contents",
      "productMatch": "Publisher catalogue explicitly lists Digital Comic; access requires corresponding edition.",
      "actionLabel": "View official deluxe contents",
      "storyGroup": "game-comic"
    },
    {
      "id": "atari",
      "title": "Halloween — Atari 2600",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "est. Halloween 1978; film-derived scenario",
      "order": 1978.83,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "1983",
      "description": "A babysitter rescues children from an escaped killer.",
      "note": "Original manual describes the film-derived premise but no year. Same adaptation position, qualified rather than a fictional sequel in 1983.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "atari"
      ],
      "continuity": "green",
      "railLabel": "est. Halloween 1978; film-derived scenario",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareID=1072",
      "productName": "Read original game / manual",
      "productMatch": "No verified current legitimate Amazon cartridge listing.",
      "actionLabel": "Read original game / manual",
      "storyGroup": "original-green"
    },
    {
      "id": "retro",
      "title": "RetroRealms: Halloween — campaign / character variants",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Modern-era Halloween; supernatural realm outside ordinary calendar",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "Michael enters a nightmare arcade adventure.",
      "note": "Licensed crossover campaign and character variants grouped; no invented 2024 fictional year. Not evidence the Evil Dead screen world shares Halloween’s history.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "retro-store"
      ],
      "continuity": "connected",
      "railLabel": "Modern-era Halloween; supernatural realm outside ordinary calendar",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/2833020",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Exact publisher Steam listing. Requires RetroRealms Arcade; other character campaigns sold separately.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "storyGroup": "retro",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd",
      "title": "Dead by Daylight — Halloween chapter / character stories",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "1978-derived characters; Entity’s realm has no established calendar",
      "order": 1978.83,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2016",
      "description": "Laurie and the Shape enter the Fog.",
      "note": "Licensed crossover rather than a film sequel. Content delisted January 19, 2026; do not advertise new unlocks as available.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dbd",
        "dbd-end"
      ],
      "continuity": "connected",
      "railLabel": "1978-derived characters; Entity’s realm has no established calendar",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://deadbydaylight.com/news/halloween-leaving-dead-by-daylight/",
      "productName": "Read official availability notice",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding chapter delisted; existing owners may retain characters. No unrelated game edition sold as if it unlocks the chapter.",
      "actionLabel": "Read official availability notice",
      "storyGroup": "dbd",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "retribution",
      "title": "Retribution and Descent — Returns to Haddonfield convention story",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "October 30–31, 2003",
      "order": 2003.83,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2003",
      "description": "A prosecutor challenges an elderly Loomis’s account.",
      "note": "Work review identifies the midnight date. Loomis alive in 2003 conflicts with the H20 route; this is not One Good Scare. Complete original interior not inspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "comic-25"
      ],
      "continuity": "connected",
      "railLabel": "October 30–31, 2003",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.g-mart.com/static/f061892.html",
      "productName": "View corresponding convention edition",
      "productMatch": "Halloween Returns to Haddonfield souvenir magazine contains this original story; stock / price not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View corresponding convention edition",
      "storyGroup": "retribution"
    },
    {
      "id": "h30-trick-frame",
      "title": "30 Years of Terror — Trick or Treat, later Mary frame",
      "type": "Comic segment",
      "date": "Modern era; decades after 1978",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "An elderly Mary remembers the original night.",
      "note": "Later framing scene in the already indexed story. No exact year inferred from the anthology’s 2008 release.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "comic-line"
      ],
      "continuity": "h20",
      "railLabel": "Modern era; decades after 1978",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://bloody-disgusting.com/comics/3591924/shape-four-colors-michael-myers-comic-book-carnage-part-three-devils-due-line/",
      "productName": "Read story / edition research",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding licensed narrative inventory. No unrelated movie offered as if it contained this comic; original edition availability remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "Read story / edition research",
      "storyGroup": "h30-trick-frame",
      "container": true,
      "eraWindow": true
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "films",
      "title": "Compass / official Halloween site — film synopses",
      "url": "https://halloweenmovies.com/films/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Original origin / 1978 return, sequel intervals and the distinct remake premise. These are official synopses, not a full film-prop inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "routes",
      "title": "Cinemark — incompatible film routes",
      "url": "https://www.cinemark.com/movie-news/articles/watch-the-halloween-movies-in-order",
      "kind": "Exhibitor / secondary continuity guide",
      "note": "Exhibitor explanation of the 1978 / 1981 / H20 and 1978 / 2018 branches."
    },
    {
      "id": "ends",
      "title": "Universal — Halloween Ends home release",
      "url": "https://www.universalpicturesathome.com/press-release/halloween-ends-press-release",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Studio confirms four years since Kills. 2018 + 4 gives 2022; home-video dates do not date the story."
    },
    {
      "id": "ends-prologue",
      "title": "Halloween Ends — contemporary scene account",
      "url": "https://www.thewrap.com/halloween-ends-ending-explained/",
      "kind": "Secondary / scene account",
      "note": "Scene chronology cross-check for the 2019 opening and 2022 main action. Full movie not viewed in this audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel18",
      "title": "Titan — Halloween official novelization",
      "url": "https://titanbooks.com/9783-halloween-the-official-movie-novelization/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "John Passarella; ISBN 9781789090529; explicitly forty years after 1978."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-kills",
      "title": "PRH / Titan — Halloween Kills",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667652/halloween-kills-the-official-movie-novelization-by-tim-waggoner/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Tim Waggoner’s official novelization. Same central night as the film, with expanded prose material."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-ends",
      "title": "PRH / Titan — Halloween Ends",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/715921/halloween-ends-the-official-movie-novelization-by-titan-books/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Paul Brad Logan’s official novelization; original text not fully inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "richards",
      "title": "Printed in Blood — licensed original novel reprint",
      "url": "https://printedinblood.com/product/halloween-illustrated-hc-novelization/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Reprints the original Curtis Richards / Richard Curtis novel in full; new illustrations do not make it a different narrative. Publisher currently shows sold out."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-history",
      "title": "Halloween prose adaptation inventory",
      "url": "https://www.scare-zone.com/2016/09/14/halloween-the-life-crimes-of-michael-myers/",
      "kind": "Secondary / publication inventory",
      "note": "Original, II and IV novelizations and three Berkley originals. Cross-check III separately."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel-iii",
      "title": "Halloween — prose inventory including Season of the Witch",
      "url": "https://www.listchallenges.com/halloween-novels",
      "kind": "Secondary / bibliographic checklist",
      "note": "Inventory cross-check only: seven film novelizations, including Jack Martin’s III. Not an original-interior source."
    },
    {
      "id": "ya",
      "title": "Berkley young-adult books — bibliographic and premise review",
      "url": "https://www.wickedhorror.com/features/retrospectives/haddonfield-high-remembering-halloween-young-adult-books/",
      "kind": "Secondary / reviewed books",
      "note": "Three Kelly O’Rourke books, with different teenage casts. No demonstrated calendar sequence between the three tales."
    },
    {
      "id": "legend",
      "title": "Trancas — The Legend of Halloween",
      "url": "https://www.legendofhalloween.trancasfilms.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "David Gordon Green / Onur Tukel illustrated retelling of the original story; not a new sequel."
    },
    {
      "id": "comic-25",
      "title": "Licensed convention / DVD comic inventory",
      "url": "https://bloody-disgusting.com/comics/3591753/shape-four-colors-michael-myers-comic-book-carnage-part-two-25th-anniversary-trilogy/",
      "kind": "Secondary / original-work review",
      "note": "Distinguishes Retribution and Descent, One Good Scare and Autopsis. Reported 2003 midnight frame is qualified pending original interior."
    },
    {
      "id": "comic-creator",
      "title": "Stefan Hutchinson interview — licensed comics",
      "url": "https://www.joblo.com/interview-stefan-hutchinson-03/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Creator discusses building a four-part comic narrative around the Shape."
    },
    {
      "id": "firstdeath",
      "title": "Hutchinson — First Death publication / chronology",
      "url": "https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3640491/first-death-laurie-strode-stefan-hutchinson-opens-final-comic-never-phantom-limbs/",
      "kind": "Primary creator interview / hosted by secondary publication",
      "note": "Author confirms only two issues released; intended third issue Halloween 1979. Unpublished art is not a published third issue."
    },
    {
      "id": "comic-news",
      "title": "Contemporary Devil’s Due inventory",
      "url": "https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/7343/tons-of-new-halloween-comics-info/",
      "kind": "Contemporary publisher announcement report",
      "note": "2008 report verifies Sam, the Nightdance collection’s Charlie bonus, and First Death plans. Later publication evidence overrides planned issue counts."
    },
    {
      "id": "nightdance",
      "title": "Nightdance — dated original-work review",
      "url": "https://brettmilam.com/2020/08/07/halloween-nightdance/",
      "kind": "Secondary / original-work review",
      "note": "Reports Russellville Halloween 2000; complete original interiors not inspected here."
    },
    {
      "id": "h30",
      "title": "30 Years of Terror — five-story review",
      "url": "https://brettmilam.com/2020/08/07/halloween-30-years-of-terror/",
      "kind": "Secondary / original-work review",
      "note": "Five distinct stories; reviewer identifies Miss Haddonfield 1991 clue in P.O.V. Do not silently turn that clue into an exact day."
    },
    {
      "id": "white",
      "title": "Greg Mitchell — White Ghost and official website fiction",
      "url": "https://thecomingevil.blogspot.com/2009/12/halloween-white-ghost-story-behind.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Author confirms prose retelling of the tow-truck driver’s fate in the original film, original website newspaper / morgue fiction, and unpublished location texts."
    },
    {
      "id": "sam",
      "title": "Sam — original-work review",
      "url": "https://brettmilam.com/2020/07/31/short-story-halloween-sam/",
      "kind": "Secondary / original-work review",
      "note": "Final year of Loomis’s life, plus his earlier life. Reviewer’s uncertain 2010 release is superseded by the contemporary 2008 announcement."
    },
    {
      "id": "interleaving",
      "title": "Detailed fan page / chapter chronology — leads to verify",
      "url": "https://www.thecomicboard.com/threads/halloween-timeline.15259/",
      "kind": "Secondary / research leads",
      "note": "Page-level references provide candidate 1993 Autopsis and 1995 Sam anchors; these are estimates until originals checked. Not proof of original inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "chaos",
      "title": "Chaos comics — incompatible sequel account",
      "url": "https://bloody-disgusting.com/comics/3591753/shape-four-colors-michael-myers-comic-book-carnage-part-two-25th-anniversary-trilogy/",
      "kind": "Secondary / comic continuity inventory",
      "note": "Preceding Chaos run summarized as three one-shots reconciling earlier films. Its alternate Laurie outcome cannot be inserted before Resurrection."
    },
    {
      "id": "game",
      "title": "IllFonic — reimagined 1978 campaign",
      "url": "https://halloweengame.com/news/unleash-hell-upon-haddonfield/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Developer explicitly calls the story a reimagined extended cut of the original night in 1978. Not proof its player-driven killings happened in every film continuity."
    },
    {
      "id": "game-current",
      "title": "IllFonic — current game / store links",
      "url": "https://halloweengame.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official site shows now available with Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Epic destinations."
    },
    {
      "id": "game-deluxe",
      "title": "IllFonic Steam publisher — digital comic contents",
      "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/IllFonic?l=english",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Digital Deluxe Upgrade explicitly includes a digital comic; original comic title, narrative contents and date require inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "game-update",
      "title": "IllFonic — October 2026 content update",
      "url": "https://halloweengame.com/news/halloween-2026-content-update/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "October 27 map / cosmetic update references Halloween 5 and 2018 designs. Skins do not merge their incompatible histories."
    },
    {
      "id": "remake",
      "title": "Trancas — remake origin / fifteen-year interval",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-2007/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder synopsis says age nine then fifteen years later; common secondary descriptions say ten. Use a qualified age range until original dialogue / credits resolve the discrepancy."
    },
    {
      "id": "comic-line",
      "title": "Devil’s Due — detailed five-story / framing review",
      "url": "https://bloody-disgusting.com/comics/3591924/shape-four-colors-michael-myers-comic-book-carnage-part-three-devils-due-line/",
      "kind": "Secondary / original-work review",
      "note": "Trick or Treat includes a later elderly-Mary frame; original 1978 action must not date that later return."
    },
    {
      "id": "retro-store",
      "title": "Boss Team — original Steam product / narrative premise",
      "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/2833020",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Licensed 2024 release, nightmare-realm adventure and cross-title features."
    },
    {
      "id": "atari",
      "title": "Wizard Video — original Atari instructions",
      "url": "https://www.atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=229",
      "kind": "Primary manual / preservation transcription",
      "note": "Original manual text read: escaped killer returns on Halloween, babysitter rescues children. No explicit calendar year; adaptation position is qualified."
    },
    {
      "id": "retro",
      "title": "Boss Team — RetroRealms official collection",
      "url": "https://retrorealmsgame.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Licensed Halloween / Ash vs Evil Dead arcade games; cross-character campaigns need qualification, not merger of film worlds."
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd",
      "title": "Starbreeze — original Halloween chapter announcement",
      "url": "https://www.starbreeze.com/news/dead-by-daylight-and-new-killer-michael-myers-set-to-spook-your-socks-off-with-the-halloween-chapter-update/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Licensed Myers / Laurie / Haddonfield crossover derived from 1978."
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd-end",
      "title": "Behaviour — Halloween content delisting",
      "url": "https://deadbydaylight.com/news/halloween-leaving-dead-by-daylight/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "No longer available to unlock after January 19, 2026. Existing ownership differs from current purchase availability."
    },
    {
      "id": "kills-author",
      "title": "Tim Waggoner — original print product link",
      "url": "https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2021/07/?m=0",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Author’s July 2021 post links the exact print and Kindle products."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-1978",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween (1978) — Blu-ray",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-1978/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-ii-1981",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween II (1981) — film edition",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-ii-1981/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-iii-1982",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween III: Season of the Witch — film edition",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-iii-1982/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-4-1988",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween 4 — film edition",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-4-1988/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-5-1989",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween 5 — Blu-ray",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-5-1989/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-vi-1995",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween VI — unrated producer’s cut",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-vi-1995/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-h20-1998",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween H20 — film edition",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-h20-1998/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-resurrection-2002",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween: Resurrection — film edition",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-resurrection-2002/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-2007",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween (2007) — unrated collector’s edition",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-2007/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-film-halloween-ii-2009",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween II (2009) — film edition",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/film-halloween-ii-2009/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-halloween-2018",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween (2018) — digital film",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/halloween-2018/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    },
    {
      "id": "edition-halloween-kills",
      "title": "Trancas — Halloween Kills — extended digital edition",
      "url": "https://trancasfilms.com/halloween-kills/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Rights-holder links this exact Amazon product; short-link redirects checked October 27, 2026. Current stock and inclusion of alternate cuts are not asserted."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "The First Death #3; The Mark of Thorn; abandoned screen sequels",
      "type": "Unreleased projects",
      "status": "Not counted as released stories",
      "note": "Unpublished conclusion / announced series are distinct from the two published First Death issues. Creator interview provides intentions, not publication.",
      "sources": [
        "firstdeath"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Game cosmetics / multiplayer matches; Call of Duty Ghosts and later operator appearances",
      "type": "Crossovers / skins",
      "status": "Narrative eligibility review open",
      "note": "A mask, weapon or character skin does not establish a plotted new canon chapter. Audit actual narrative cinematics separately before adding new stories.",
      "sources": [
        "game-update",
        "dbd"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Making-of books, documentaries, art collections and music videos",
      "type": "Production / music inventory",
      "status": "No new fictional chronology assumed",
      "note": "The official Making of the modern trilogy, 25 Years of Terror and art books are evidence / production material. New plot-bearing extras still require individual inspection.",
      "sources": [
        "richards",
        "comic-25"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-27",
    "status": "Research edition — film dates / published narrative inventory checked; interior and product-match gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Thirteen released feature films inventoried; original shared films repeated only for continuity selection and marked shared for counts.",
      "Seven prose film adaptations, three Berkley originals and illustrated verse retelling inventoried; source-story formats grouped.",
      "Nightdance published #1–4 and First Death published #1–2 grouped; unreleased #3 excluded. Five 30 Years of Terror stories and Charlie bonus individually inventoried.",
      "Convention Retribution and Descent added as its own incompatible story; not confused with One Good Scare.",
      "Modern trilogy uses 2018 / 2019 prologue / 2022 rather than release order. Thorn uses official elapsed intervals.",
      "New game’s 1978 campaign and deluxe comic inventoried, without assuming every edition or cosmetic is a new story.",
      "Exact date claims from original official summaries distinguished from estimated comic interleaving. Full unavailable interiors not claimed inspected."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Original convention comic / other comic interiors and legal previews not recovered. Published inventories / creator testimony checked; page-level exact dates remain qualified where evidence is secondary.",
      "Full film / prose / comic interiors not inspected. Cut-specific remake dates, YA dates and individual nested-story dates need original evidence.",
      "Retired official website files need an archived inventory; author confirms some location fiction was never published.",
      "Most Amazon product matches remain unverified; correct publisher / rights-holder destinations supplied rather than unrelated products.",
      "Licensed crossovers, promotional narrative shorts, audio editions and attraction-specific original stories require final omission / duplication audit."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}