{
  "id": "silent-hill",
  "title": "Silent Hill",
  "description": "A shared chronology spanning 1867, 1960s Japan, the Mason and Sunderland stories, 1996 St. Amelia, and compatible licensed material. Reimagined film histories remain selectable.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "main",
      "label": "Shared Silent Hill chronology",
      "note": "Numbered games, f, Townfall, licensed comics and compatible side stories share one chronology. Calendar estimates reconcile the guide / diary chronology, with Ito’s different SH2 period noted. Separate selectors remain for explicit Harry / Cheryl reimagining and incompatible film adaptations."
    },
    {
      "id": "shattered",
      "label": "Shattered Memories reimagining",
      "note": "A reinterpreted Harry / Cheryl story with a different framing premise."
    },
    {
      "id": "movies",
      "label": "2006 film & Revelation",
      "note": "Rose / Sharon / Heather’s screen adaptation, separate from the games."
    },
    {
      "id": "return",
      "label": "Return to Silent Hill",
      "note": "James and Mary’s 2026 film adaptation and its official novel. Not a sequel to the 2006 / 2012 films."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "id": "silent-hill-past-life-1-4",
      "title": "Silent Hill: Past Life #1–4",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "1867; later progression needs caption audit",
      "order": 1867,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2010–2011",
      "description": "Jebediah Foster’s migration from the Dakota Territory toward Silent Hill.",
      "note": "The initial 1867 setting is explicit in publication description. Later chapter dates are not silently all fixed to the opening year. Connection to Downpour is retained; full interiors remain an inspection gap.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "past",
        "comics"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "1867",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Stated date / relative sequence",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1631404482",
      "productName": "Silent Hill Omnibus 2 — IDW",
      "productMatch": "Contains Sinner’s Reward, Past Life and Anne’s Story; exact corresponding story is named on the entry.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-origins",
      "title": "Silent Hill: Origins",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. 1976; seven years before Silent Hill",
      "order": 1976,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "Travis Grady encounters Alessa’s crisis.",
      "note": "The 1983 Silent Hill anchor in the Homecoming promotional diary, minus the stated seven-year interval, gives 1976. Guide contradictions keep this an estimate.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "portal",
        "relative"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1976",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/sh_origins/info_en.htm",
      "productName": "Find game edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Find game edition"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-cage-of-cradle",
      "title": "Silent Hill: Cage of Cradle",
      "type": "Manga",
      "date": "Est. early 1980s; Lisa’s final days before Silent Hill",
      "order": 1982.9,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "Lisa Garland’s pre-game story, by Hiroyuki Owaku and Masahiro Ito.",
      "note": "Lisa’s final-days prequel belongs immediately before the first game. The calendar estimate inherits its provisional 1983 anchor.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "comics",
        "relative"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1980s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/publications/sh_cage_of_cradle_en.htm",
      "productName": "View publication / access record",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View publication / access record"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill",
      "title": "Silent Hill",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. 1983; seven years after Origins",
      "order": 1983,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1999",
      "description": "Harry Mason searches for Cheryl.",
      "note": "Homecoming’s Alex diary supplies a provisional 1983 anchor. The seven-year prequel and seventeen-year sequel intervals are firm; the calendar remains estimated. Adaptations retain the same story slot.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "relative",
        "portal"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1983",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/sh1/info_en.htm",
      "productName": "Find original game edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Find original game edition",
      "storyGroup": "sh1"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-the-novel-sadamu-yamashita",
      "title": "Silent Hill: The Novel — Sadamu Yamashita",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Est. 1983; seven years after Origins",
      "order": 1983,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2006-08-11",
      "description": "Japanese prose adaptation of Harry’s story.",
      "note": "Homecoming’s Alex diary supplies a provisional 1983 anchor. The seven-year prequel and seventeen-year sequel intervals are firm; the calendar remains estimated. Adaptations retain the same story slot.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "books",
        "relative"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1983",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/4861558158",
      "productName": "Silent Hill — Konami Novels, Japanese paperback",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition. Confirm platform, language and edition at the retailer; stock is not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "sh1"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-play-novel-harry-cybil-routes",
      "title": "Silent Hill: Play Novel — Harry & Cybil routes",
      "type": "Game / visual novel",
      "date": "Est. 1983; seven years after Origins",
      "order": 1983,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2001",
      "description": "Game Boy Advance text-and-image versions of Harry and Cybil’s journey.",
      "note": "Homecoming’s Alex diary supplies a provisional 1983 anchor. The seven-year prequel and seventeen-year sequel intervals are firm; the calendar remains estimated. Adaptations retain the same story slot.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "all",
        "relative"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1983",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/sh_pn/info_en.htm",
      "productName": "View Play Novel / edition information",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View Play Novel / edition information",
      "storyGroup": "sh1"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-2",
      "title": "Silent Hill 2",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. 1993–1994; alternative creator period: late 1970s–early 1980s",
      "order": 1993.5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2001",
      "description": "James Sunderland follows Mary’s letter.",
      "note": "Working calendar follows Alex’s diary / guide reconciliation. Masahiro Ito described a late-1970s / early-1980s intended setting; neither claim is silently promoted to exact canon. SH4 is later, with a guide interval of ten years that differs from its “few years” dialogue.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "relative",
        "portal"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1993–94",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050SXAIG",
      "productName": "Silent Hill HD Collection — PS3",
      "productMatch": "Contains Silent Hill 2 and 3, not Silent Hill 1 or the 2024 remake. Confirm regional edition and console compatibility.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "sh2"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-2-2024-remake",
      "title": "Silent Hill 2 (2024 remake)",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. 1993–1994; alternative creator period: late 1970s–early 1980s",
      "order": 1993.5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "A reworked version of James’s journey.",
      "note": "Working calendar follows Alex’s diary / guide reconciliation. Masahiro Ito described a late-1970s / early-1980s intended setting; neither claim is silently promoted to exact canon. SH4 is later, with a guide interval of ten years that differs from its “few years” dialogue.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "portal",
        "relative"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1993–94",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.konami.com/games/silenthill/2/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "storyGroup": "sh2"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-2-the-novel-sadamu-yamashita",
      "title": "Silent Hill 2: The Novel — Sadamu Yamashita",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Est. 1993–1994; alternative creator period: late 1970s–early 1980s",
      "order": 1993.5,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2006-11-22",
      "description": "Japanese prose version of James’s story.",
      "note": "Working calendar follows Alex’s diary / guide reconciliation. Masahiro Ito described a late-1970s / early-1980s intended setting; neither claim is silently promoted to exact canon. SH4 is later, with a guide interval of ten years that differs from its “few years” dialogue.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "books",
        "relative"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1993–94",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/4861558328",
      "productName": "Silent Hill 2 — Konami Novels, Japanese paperback",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition. Confirm platform, language and edition at the retailer; stock is not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "sh2"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-2-born-from-a-wish",
      "title": "Silent Hill 2: Born from a Wish",
      "type": "Game scenario",
      "date": "Est. 1993–1994; immediately before Maria meets James",
      "order": 1993.49,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2001 Xbox edition; later expanded editions",
      "description": "Maria’s playable pre-meeting story.",
      "note": "Interleaved before SH2 using the same provisional calendar; the earlier creator-period alternative applies here too.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "all",
        "relative"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 1993–94",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050SXAIG",
      "productName": "Silent Hill HD Collection — PS3",
      "productMatch": "Contains Silent Hill 2 and 3, not Silent Hill 1 or the 2024 remake. Confirm regional edition and console compatibility.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-3",
      "title": "Silent Hill 3",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. 2000; seventeen years after Silent Hill",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2003",
      "description": "Heather Mason’s confrontation with the cult.",
      "note": "Seventeen years after the provisional 1983 first-game anchor. The interval is established; the calendar year is estimated.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "relative",
        "portal"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2000",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0050SXAIG",
      "productName": "Silent Hill HD Collection — PS3",
      "productMatch": "Contains Silent Hill 2 and 3, not Silent Hill 1 or the 2024 remake. Confirm regional edition and console compatibility.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "sh3"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-3-the-novel-sadamu-yamashita",
      "title": "Silent Hill 3: The Novel — Sadamu Yamashita",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Est. 2000; seventeen years after Silent Hill",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2007-07-27",
      "description": "Prose adaptation of Heather’s story.",
      "note": "Seventeen years after the provisional 1983 first-game anchor. The interval is established; the calendar year is estimated.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "books",
        "relative"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2000",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/4861558425",
      "productName": "Silent Hill 3 — Konami Novels, Japanese paperback",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition. Confirm platform, language and edition at the retailer; stock is not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "sh3"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-4-the-room",
      "title": "Silent Hill 4: The Room",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. 2003–2004; after Silent Hill 2 and 3 in the guide reconciliation",
      "order": 2004,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2004",
      "description": "Henry Townsend becomes trapped in Room 302.",
      "note": "The official SH4 guide places James’s disappearance ten years earlier and SH3 roughly 3–7 years earlier. Combining those with the provisional 1993–94 SH2 and 2000 SH3 anchors yields around 2003–04. Other guide / dialogue intervals conflict, so this is an estimate.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "relative",
        "portal"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2003–04",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.gog.com/en/game/silent_hill_4_the_room",
      "productName": "View official PC edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official PC edition"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-homecoming",
      "title": "Silent Hill: Homecoming",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. 2007; Shepherd’s Glen main adventure",
      "order": 2007,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Alex Shepherd returns to Shepherd’s Glen.",
      "note": "Working 2007 anchor is reported by the contemporary-game chronology reference; the anniversary and family-history clues require a complete prop audit before an exact day can be claimed.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "portal",
        "all",
        "modern-calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2007",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/19000/Silent_Hill_Homecoming/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-downpour",
      "title": "Silent Hill: Downpour",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "Est. 2011; Murphy / Anne’s overlapping events",
      "order": 2011,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2012",
      "description": "Murphy Pendleton encounters the town after a prison transport crash.",
      "note": "Working 2011 anchor from the chronology reference. Anne’s comic covers the same incident with earlier memories; a full dated-page / prison-record audit remains outstanding.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "portal",
        "all",
        "modern-calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2011",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003O6HDHA",
      "productName": "Silent Hill: Downpour — PS3",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official edition. Confirm platform, language and edition at the retailer; stock is not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "downpour"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-downpour-anne-s-story-1-4",
      "title": "Silent Hill Downpour: Anne’s Story #1–4",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Est. 2011; Murphy / Anne’s overlapping events",
      "order": 2011,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2014",
      "description": "Anne Cunningham’s side of the prison-transport story.",
      "note": "Working 2011 anchor from the chronology reference. Anne’s comic covers the same incident with earlier memories; a full dated-page / prison-record audit remains outstanding.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "comics",
        "modern-calendar"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "est. 2011",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Provisional evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1631404482",
      "productName": "Silent Hill Omnibus 2 — IDW",
      "productMatch": "Contains Sinner’s Reward, Past Life and Anne’s Story; exact corresponding story is named on the entry.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "downpour"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-sinner-s-reward-1-4",
      "title": "Silent Hill: Sinner’s Reward #1–4",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Contemporary licensed story; year / game fit unresolved",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Jack Stanton and Jill Conway flee toward Silent Hill.",
      "note": "Retained among assumed game-connected material, with disputed status. Full pages needed before inserting a specific year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "comics"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1631404482",
      "productName": "Silent Hill Omnibus 2 — IDW",
      "productMatch": "Contains Sinner’s Reward, Past Life and Anne’s Story; exact corresponding story is named on the entry.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-double-under-dusk",
      "title": "Silent Hill: Double under Dusk",
      "type": "Manga",
      "date": "Brian and Lindsay’s story; calendar placement unresolved",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "An Owaku / Ito mobile manga about grief and an uncanny encounter.",
      "note": "Official creators / publication verified. No full-interior audit; relationship to a specific Silent Hill 2 ending is not assumed as settled fact.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "comics"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/publications/sh_double_under_dusk_en.htm",
      "productName": "View publication / access record",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View publication / access record"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-f",
      "title": "Silent Hill f",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "1960s Japan; exact year unverified",
      "order": 1965,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2025-09-25",
      "description": "Hinako’s Ebisugaoka becomes engulfed in fog and monstrous growth.",
      "note": "Official 1960s Japan setting. A different country / cast is not evidence of a separate continuity. This decade precedes the estimated Origins era; 1965 is only a sorting midpoint, not a claimed exact year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "f"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "1960s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Stated date / relative sequence",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.konami.com/games/silenthill/f/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "storyGroup": "shf"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-f-shiro-kuro-novel",
      "title": "Silent Hill f — Shiro Kuro novel",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "1960s Japan; game adaptation",
      "order": 1965,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2025-10-30",
      "description": "The official prose adaptation of Hinako’s story.",
      "note": "Official 1960s Japan setting. A different country / cast is not evidence of a separate continuity. This decade precedes the estimated Origins era; 1965 is only a sorting midpoint, not a claimed exact year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "fnovel",
        "f"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "1960s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Stated date / relative sequence",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/4047386421",
      "productName": "Silent Hill f — Japanese paperback",
      "productMatch": "Publisher-verified ISBN / Amazon Japanese edition identifier; US import stock is not verified. The Japanese publisher offers additional local retailer links.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "shf"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-f-ongoing-manga-adaptation",
      "title": "Silent Hill f — ongoing manga adaptation",
      "type": "Manga",
      "date": "1960s Japan; adaptation with a new ending",
      "order": 1965,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "2026–ongoing",
      "description": "Ame Gōkin’s manga treatment of Hinako’s story.",
      "note": "Official 1960s Japan setting. A different country / cast is not evidence of a separate continuity. This decade precedes the estimated Origins era; 1965 is only a sorting midpoint, not a claimed exact year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "fmanga",
        "f"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "1960s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Stated date / relative sequence",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://comic-walker.com/detail/KC_008641_S?episodeType=first",
      "productName": "Read official manga",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Read official manga",
      "storyGroup": "shf"
    },
    {
      "id": "silent-hill-townfall-the-dock-house",
      "title": "Silent Hill: Townfall — The Dock House",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Before 1996; exact prequel interval unverified",
      "order": 1995.99,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2026-09-16 (UK); 2026-09-30 (US)",
      "description": "Harbour master Douglas encounters a hidden horror in St. Amelia.",
      "note": "Official Townfall prequel, placed immediately before the confirmed 1996 game as a relative slot. This does not claim the comic explicitly says 1995.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dock",
        "townfall1996"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "Before 1996",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Stated date / relative sequence",
      "inspection": "Official promotional artwork inspected; full ten-page story not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
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    },
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      "release": "2024",
      "description": "Anita’s phone messages lead her into a nightmare.",
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      "description": "Two families face the consequences of their past actions.",
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    },
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      "id": "p-t",
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      "type": "Game / promotional demo",
      "date": "Looping domestic nightmare; no verified calendar",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2014",
      "description": "A playable horror teaser for the cancelled Silent Hills.",
      "note": "No verified bridge to a specific numbered-game year. Story-bearing official material is retained; full script / page inspection remains open.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "white-hunter-belyj-okhotnik",
      "title": "White Hunter / Belyj Okhotnik",
      "type": "Short comic",
      "date": "Another world; calendar unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Masahiro Ito’s alternative-world hunter.",
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    },
    {
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      "date": "Surreal vignette; no calendar claim",
      "order": null,
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      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/films/films_en.htm",
      "productName": "View narrative / edition information",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View narrative / edition information"
    },
    {
      "id": "usagi-rabbit",
      "title": "Usagi / Rabbit",
      "type": "Short film",
      "date": "Surreal vignette; no calendar claim",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2003",
      "description": "A related short-form visual nightmare.",
      "note": "No verified bridge to a specific numbered-game year. Story-bearing official material is retained; full script / page inspection remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "all"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/films/films_en.htm",
      "productName": "View narrative / edition information",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View narrative / edition information"
    },
    {
      "id": "dead-by-daylight-silent-hill-character-lore",
      "title": "Dead by Daylight: Silent Hill — character lore",
      "type": "Game / short fiction",
      "date": "Entity-realm crossover; home-game calendar unresolved",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2020",
      "description": "Cheryl and the Executioner enter the Entity’s mythology.",
      "note": "Licensed narrative character lore, separate from a fixed numbered-game event. Cosmetic additions without a story are not extra chapters.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dbd"
      ],
      "continuity": "main",
      "railLabel": "?",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://deadbydaylight.com/game/chapters/silent-hill/",
      "productName": "Read official chapter / lore",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official game / narrative page. Exact Amazon edition not yet verified; no unrelated purchase substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "Read official chapter / lore"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "portal",
      "title": "Konami: Silent Hill official portal",
      "url": "https://www.konami.com/games/silenthill/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "relative",
      "title": "Silent Hill Memories: source-annotated relative chronology",
      "url": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/lore/timeline_en.htm",
      "kind": "Secondary research",
      "note": "Cross-checks three official guides against dialogue and Masahiro Ito’s different period claim. Calendar contradictions remain explicit."
    },
    {
      "id": "books",
      "title": "Silent Hill Memories: licensed novel bibliography",
      "url": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/publications/books_en.htm",
      "kind": "Secondary bibliography",
      "note": "Japanese game / film novelizations, ISBNs and 2026 Return novel indexed."
    },
    {
      "id": "comics",
      "title": "Silent Hill Memories: licensed comic bibliography",
      "url": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/publications/comics_en.htm",
      "kind": "Secondary bibliography",
      "note": "Serial issue inventory, Owaku/Ito mobile manga and collected edition contents. Not a full-interior date audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "past",
      "title": "Past Life: four-issue inventory and edition",
      "url": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/publications/sh_past_life_en.htm",
      "kind": "Secondary bibliography",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "white",
      "title": "White Hunter: story / creator material index",
      "url": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/publications/sh_white_hunter_en.htm",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "Creator’s alternative-world figure is not assumed to share Pyramid Head’s game story. Full licensed pages not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "f",
      "title": "Konami: f’s explicit 1960s setting",
      "url": "https://www.konami.com/games/us/en/topics/2814/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "fnovel",
      "title": "KADOKAWA: official Silent Hill f novel",
      "url": "https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/322507000131/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "ISBN 9784047386426; licensed novel supervised by Konami. Publisher links Japanese Amazon edition 4047386421."
    },
    {
      "id": "fmanga",
      "title": "KADOKAWA: f manga reader",
      "url": "https://comic-walker.com/detail/KC_008641_S?episodeType=first",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Ame Gōkin adaptation with original writer Ryukishi07. Ongoing chapters and promised alternate ending must not be silently identical to the game."
    },
    {
      "id": "dock",
      "title": "Konami: The Dock House in 2000 AD Prog 2500",
      "url": "https://www.konami.com/games/eu/en/topics/19315/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Explicit prequel by game writer / director Jon McKellan. Official promotional artwork inspected; full ten-page story not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "townfall",
      "title": "Konami: Townfall",
      "url": "https://www.konami.com/games/silenthill/townfall/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "ascension",
      "title": "Konami / Genvid: Ascension’s interactive narrative",
      "url": "https://www.konami.com/games/eu/en/topics/17175/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "arcade",
      "title": "Konami: Silent Hill The Arcade",
      "url": "https://www.konami.com/arcadegames/products/site/am_silent_hill/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "arcadestory",
      "title": "Arcade story and historical strand",
      "url": "https://www.silenthillmemories.net/sh_arcade/info_en.htm",
      "kind": "Secondary",
      "note": "1918 Little Baroness background distinguished from the later Eric / Tina adventure."
    },
    {
      "id": "short",
      "title": "Konami: The Short Message",
      "url": "https://www.konami.com/games/silenthill/shortmessage/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "all",
      "title": "Silent Hill media / spin-off inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Silent_Hill_media",
      "kind": "Secondary bibliography",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "return",
      "title": "Titan: Return to Silent Hill official novelization",
      "url": "https://titanbooks.com/72540-return-to-silent-hill-the-official-movie-novelization/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "hdproduct",
      "title": "HD Collection PS3 edition identifier",
      "url": "https://www.merchantwords.com/asin/it/B0050SXAIG",
      "kind": "Retail cross-check",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "downproduct",
      "title": "Downpour PS3 edition Amazon link",
      "url": "https://www.cheapassgamer.com/threads/silent-hill-downpour-49-99-w-fsss-amazon-ps3-pre-order.266440/",
      "kind": "Retail cross-check",
      "note": "B003O6HDHA corresponds to the game; no historical price assertion."
    },
    {
      "id": "revelation-film",
      "title": "Universal: Silent Hill — Revelation",
      "url": "https://www.universalpicturesathome.com/movies/silent-hill-revelation",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "return-film",
      "title": "Cineverse: Return to Silent Hill official film site",
      "url": "https://returntosilenthillmovie.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd",
      "title": "Behaviour: Silent Hill licensed chapter / character lore",
      "url": "https://deadbydaylight.com/game/chapters/silent-hill/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publication / premise verified. Calendar placement is qualified separately; this is not a claim to have inspected the complete work."
    },
    {
      "id": "townfall1996",
      "title": "Konami: Townfall — exploration in St. Amelia in 1996",
      "url": "https://www.konami.com/games/silenthill/townfall/jp/ja/",
      "kind": "Primary publisher",
      "note": "Official Japanese gameplay heading explicitly states 1996. Verified against the live publisher page, not inferred from release."
    },
    {
      "id": "modern-calendar",
      "title": "Silent Hill chronology: Homecoming / Downpour calendar anchors",
      "url": "https://as.com/meristation/noticias/cronologia-silent-hill-en-que-orden-y-donde-jugar-a-cada-entrega-de-la-saga-n/",
      "kind": "Secondary games journalism",
      "note": "Reports Homecoming 2007 and Downpour 2011. Kept estimated pending direct dated-prop verification; its disputed older-game dates are not used to override the guide reconciliation."
    },
    {
      "id": "short-phone",
      "title": "The Short Message: actual in-game smartphone screenshot",
      "url": "https://kanigame.jp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/silentshort-time.webp",
      "kind": "Primary game image reproduced by reviewer",
      "note": "Actual phone lockscreen inspected: Monday, September 12, 2022. This dates the main looping sequence, not every childhood memory."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Play Novel: Andy’s downloadable routes",
      "type": "Game scenarios",
      "status": "Published scenario inventory / access audit pending",
      "note": "Four seasonal downloads are reported; separate chapter dates / alternative route content need direct inspection before adding invented descriptions.",
      "sources": [
        "all"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Dead by Daylight: Silent Hill",
      "type": "Licensed crossover",
      "status": "Narrative license verified; separate setting",
      "note": "Cheryl and Pyramid Head’s Entity-realm material belongs to Dead by Daylight’s crossover mythology, with no shared game calendar.",
      "sources": [
        "portal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Silent Hill Experience / Art of Silent Hill / Lost Memories DVDs",
      "type": "Containers",
      "status": "Included narratives distinguished from collections",
      "note": "Hunger and short films are separate entries; repeated comic issues, soundtrack videos and menus are not additional historical events. Missing original DVD shorts require a contents audit.",
      "sources": [
        "comics",
        "all"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Silent Hill: The Terror Engine; guidebooks; Pachislot; cancelled Com.X graphic novel",
      "type": "Non-fiction / machines / unpublished",
      "status": "No automatic new narrative entry",
      "note": "Guides inform dates. Unpublished stories are excluded. Machine original sequences require an individual narrative audit; a license alone is not a story.",
      "sources": [
        "books",
        "comics",
        "all"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-07",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Calendar conflicts for SH2 and SH4 are explicit; seven-year and seventeen-year Mason intervals are preserved.",
      "All listed IDW series / one-shots, Owaku/Ito manga, game / film Japanese novels and Return novel inventoried.",
      "f’s 1960s setting is primary-source verified; game, novel and ongoing manga share a position with adaptation status.",
      "2026 Townfall and The Dock House included; official promo art distinguished from actual full comic pages.",
      "Past Life precedes the relative modern-story anchors; SH4’s disputed calendar is estimated with the conflicting guide / dialogue evidence noted. Film links point to the actual corresponding film.",
      "Pre-build table reviewed for duplicate titles, continuity conflicts, unsupported release-year dates and product / collection mismatches. Open coverage and inaccessible interiors remain listed.",
      "f and Townfall join the main chronology; Townfall corrected to official 1996. First-game / SH2 / SH3 / SH4 estimates interleaved with guide and creator contradictions disclosed. Undated comics remain visible in the main lane."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Full comic / manga interiors, now-inaccessible mobile routes and original DVD contents remain open; missing dates are not declared absent.",
      "Ascension episode-level / time-jump inventory and f manga chapter cut-off need a full narrative audit.",
      "Exact Amazon product matches for many out-of-print games / imported novels remain open."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}