{
  "id": "texas-chainsaw",
  "title": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre",
  "description": "Leatherface’s screen histories, licensed comics, prose and narrative games in fictional chronology. The 1973 original, Hewitt remake and later alternate sequels have different histories; uncertain connections remain inclusive with visible qualifications.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "original",
      "label": "Original film / early sequels / game",
      "note": "Original 1973 massacre, game prequel and early sequels. III and Next Generation contain loose or conflicting continuity details; do not silently rewrite them to agree."
    },
    {
      "id": "heather",
      "label": "Leatherface → 1973 → Texas Chainsaw 3D",
      "note": "The Sawyer-origin / Heather route replaces the early sequel outcomes after the original film."
    },
    {
      "id": "legacy",
      "label": "1973 → 2022 legacy sequel",
      "note": "Sally survives into the modern era; this cannot inherit III’s account of her earlier death."
    },
    {
      "id": "hewitt",
      "label": "Hewitt family — remake / comics",
      "note": "The 2003 film, its prequel and licensed prose / comic stories. Thomas Hewitt is not the same history as the original Sawyer family."
    },
    {
      "id": "crossovers",
      "label": "Licensed crossovers / alternate scenarios",
      "note": "Crossovers remain connected material rather than proof that every host franchise shares the screen history."
    }
  ],
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "original-original",
      "title": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "August 18–19, 1973",
      "order": 1973.63,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1974",
      "description": "A road trip ends at the family’s farmhouse.",
      "note": "Official date starts August 18; overnight pursuit follows. Shared original retained by these histories; do not substitute its release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "original",
        "amazon-original"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "August 18–19, 1973",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN18188T",
      "productName": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) — 4K UHD",
      "productMatch": "Exact original-film edition product from the retailer-linked edition reference; stock and current price not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "original-original"
    },
    {
      "id": "original-heather",
      "title": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "August 18–19, 1973",
      "order": 1973.63,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1974",
      "description": "A road trip ends at the family’s farmhouse.",
      "note": "Official date starts August 18; overnight pursuit follows. Shared original retained by these histories; do not substitute its release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "original",
        "amazon-original"
      ],
      "continuity": "heather",
      "railLabel": "August 18–19, 1973",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN18188T",
      "productName": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) — 4K UHD",
      "productMatch": "Exact original-film edition product from the retailer-linked edition reference; stock and current price not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "original-heather",
      "shared": true
    },
    {
      "id": "original-legacy",
      "title": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "August 18–19, 1973",
      "order": 1973.63,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1974",
      "description": "A road trip ends at the family’s farmhouse.",
      "note": "Official date starts August 18; overnight pursuit follows. Shared original retained by these histories; do not substitute its release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "original",
        "amazon-original"
      ],
      "continuity": "legacy",
      "railLabel": "August 18–19, 1973",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BN18188T",
      "productName": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) — 4K UHD",
      "productMatch": "Exact original-film edition product from the retailer-linked edition reference; stock and current price not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "original-legacy",
      "shared": true
    },
    {
      "id": "ii",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "1986; thirteen years after the massacre",
      "order": 1986,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1986",
      "description": "A radio host and a lawman confront the family.",
      "note": "Thirteen-year interval from 1973, not a sequel happening in 1974. Original film dates / cut-specific details remain to audit.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "history",
        "film-inventory"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "1986; thirteen years after the massacre",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "productName": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "productMatch": "Rights-holder inventory identifies this film. Exact Amazon edition remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "storyGroup": "ii"
    },
    {
      "id": "iii",
      "title": "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. late 1980s–early 1990s",
      "order": 1990,
      "canon": "Disputed canon",
      "release": "1990",
      "description": "Travelers meet another branch of the family.",
      "note": "Loose sequel whose opening account / family relationships do not align cleanly with other follow-ups. Kept inclusively with dispute label, not a fabricated extra film chronology.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "iii",
        "film-inventory"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "est. late 1980s–early 1990s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "productName": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "productMatch": "Rights-holder inventory identifies this film. Exact Amazon edition remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "storyGroup": "iii"
    },
    {
      "id": "iii-comic",
      "title": "Leatherface #1–4 — Northstar adaptation",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. late 1980s–early 1990s; same story as III",
      "order": 1990,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "1991–1992",
      "description": "The third film’s story retold with altered details.",
      "note": "Same-story adaptation grouped with III. Changes / expanded ending are qualified rather than counted as a sequel.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "northstar",
        "comic-history"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "est. late 1980s–early 1990s; same story as III",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=13211731",
      "productName": "View corresponding comic issues",
      "productMatch": "Correct Northstar four-issue series; current stock / collected edition not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "View corresponding comic issues",
      "storyGroup": "iii"
    },
    {
      "id": "next",
      "title": "The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre / The Next Generation",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "May 22, 1994",
      "order": 1994.39,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "1995 premiere / 1997 wider release",
      "description": "Prom-goers encounter Leatherface’s family.",
      "note": "Reported opening date, not a release-year guess. Alternate edits are one film; original date caption still needs direct inspection.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "next",
        "film-inventory"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "May 22, 1994",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "productName": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "productMatch": "Rights-holder inventory identifies this film. Exact Amazon edition remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "storyGroup": "next"
    },
    {
      "id": "lf-child",
      "title": "Leatherface (2017) — childhood prologue",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "est. mid-1950s",
      "order": 1955,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2017",
      "description": "Young Jedidiah is taken from his family.",
      "note": "Separated from the later escape. Candidate 1955 needs original date-card verification; production dossier not a full film inspection.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "leatherface"
      ],
      "continuity": "heather",
      "railLabel": "est. mid-1950s",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "productName": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "productMatch": "Rights-holder inventory identifies this film. Exact Amazon edition remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "storyGroup": "lf-child",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "lf-main",
      "title": "Leatherface (2017) — asylum escape",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. mid-1960s; ten years after childhood opening",
      "order": 1965,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2017",
      "description": "An escape and hostage journey leads toward Leatherface.",
      "note": "Original film / production dossier comparison still needed for exact 1965 card. Calendar estimate remains explicit.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "leatherface"
      ],
      "continuity": "heather",
      "railLabel": "est. mid-1960s; ten years after childhood opening",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "productName": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "productMatch": "Rights-holder inventory identifies this film. Exact Amazon edition remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "storyGroup": "lf-main"
    },
    {
      "id": "3d-prologue",
      "title": "Texas Chainsaw 3D — farmhouse aftermath",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "August 1973; immediately after the original",
      "order": 1973.64,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2013",
      "description": "A mob attacks the Sawyer farmhouse.",
      "note": "Immediate aftermath belongs next to the 1973 film, not beside the modern main story.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "3d-director",
        "history"
      ],
      "continuity": "heather",
      "railLabel": "August 1973; immediately after the original",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "productName": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "productMatch": "Rights-holder inventory identifies this film. Exact Amazon edition remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "storyGroup": "3d-prologue",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "3d",
      "title": "Texas Chainsaw 3D — Heather’s inheritance",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. 2012; modern era",
      "order": 2012,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2013",
      "description": "Heather inherits a family home and its secret.",
      "note": "Contemporary setting / technology and review support 2012; apparent character-age contradiction is disclosed rather than silently inventing an early-1990s date. Exact original props remain to check.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "3d-date",
        "3d-director"
      ],
      "continuity": "heather",
      "railLabel": "est. 2012; modern era",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "productName": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "productMatch": "Rights-holder inventory identifies this film. Exact Amazon edition remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "storyGroup": "3d"
    },
    {
      "id": "legacy",
      "title": "Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. early 2020s; nearly fifty years after 1973",
      "order": 2022,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "New arrivals awaken Leatherface in Harlow.",
      "note": "Netflix says nearly fifty years, so do not convert that into an exact 2023 date. Sally’s continuing life distinguishes this from III’s account.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "netflix-clock",
        "legendary",
        "iii"
      ],
      "continuity": "legacy",
      "railLabel": "est. early 2020s; nearly fifty years after 1973",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.netflix.com/title/81483977",
      "productName": "Watch on Netflix",
      "productMatch": "Exact streaming film, not the 2003 remake; subscription / availability vary.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on Netflix",
      "storyGroup": "legacy"
    },
    {
      "id": "hewitt-birth",
      "title": "The Beginning — Thomas Hewitt’s birth",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "August 1939",
      "order": 1939.6,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "An abandoned infant becomes part of the Hewitt family.",
      "note": "Original disc chapter date independently cross-checked against scene reviews. Exact day not forced from uninspected props.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "beginning",
        "beginning-check"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "August 1939",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "productName": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "productMatch": "Rights-holder inventory identifies this film. Exact Amazon edition remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "storyGroup": "hewitt-birth",
      "container": true
    },
    {
      "id": "hewitt-begin",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "July 1969",
      "order": 1969.5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "The slaughterhouse closes and the family turns to murder.",
      "note": "Main narrative follows the earlier birth scene; July 1969 reported in disc chapter listing. Not a prequel to the Sawyer original.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "beginning",
        "beginning-check"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "July 1969",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "productName": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "productMatch": "Rights-holder inventory identifies this film. Exact Amazon edition remains unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official franchise / trailer",
      "storyGroup": "hewitt-begin"
    },
    {
      "id": "remake",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "August 1973; police aftermath August 20",
      "order": 1973.63,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2003",
      "description": "Erin and her friends encounter the Hewitts.",
      "note": "Different family history from the 1974 film. Official licensed novel blurb explicitly dates police discovery August 20, 1973; exact central-day prop audit remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "remake-edition",
        "novel"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "August 1973; police aftermath August 20",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://mvdshop.com/products/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-limited-edition-4k-ultra-hd",
      "productName": "View official film edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed 2003 film product; not the 1974 original. Amazon match unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official film edition",
      "storyGroup": "remake"
    },
    {
      "id": "novel",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — Stephen Hand novelization",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "August 1973; earlier personal history embedded",
      "order": 1973.63,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2004",
      "description": "The remake in expanded prose.",
      "note": "Same-story adaptation beside the remake. Publisher blurb dates discovery; expanded interior dates remain to inspect.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "novel",
        "amazon-novel"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "August 1973; earlier personal history embedded",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1844160602",
      "productName": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — Stephen Hand",
      "productMatch": "Exact retailer title, author and ISBN checked against licensed edition record. Out-of-print availability may vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "remake"
    },
    {
      "id": "about-boy",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: About a Boy",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Thomas’s teenage years; est. 1950s",
      "order": 1955,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "Teenage Thomas struggles with school and violence.",
      "note": "Publisher explicitly places a teenage Thomas before The Beginning. With 1939 birth, a 1950s window is supported; full interior needed for exact year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dc-boy",
        "beginning",
        "dc-two"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "Thomas’s teenage years; est. 1950s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/comics/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-about-a-boy-1",
      "productName": "View official comic",
      "productMatch": "Correct one-shot; no unverified film product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official comic",
      "storyGroup": "about-boy",
      "eraWindow": true,
      "productLinks": [
        {
          "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/texas-chainsaw-massacre-vol-2",
          "productName": "View containing volume 2",
          "productMatch": "Publisher-confirmed containing edition; no new story counted for the collection.",
          "actionLabel": "View containing volume 2"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "avatar-special",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Special #1",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Summer 1972",
      "order": 1972.5,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2005",
      "description": "Escaped bank robbers stop at the Hewitt store.",
      "note": "Original publisher explicitly prints Fuller, Texas, Summer 1972. Cover variants do not create extra stories.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "avatar"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "Summer 1972",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.avatarpress.com/texaschainsaw/",
      "productName": "View original publisher / edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed one-shot; current retailer availability unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View original publisher / edition",
      "storyGroup": "avatar-special"
    },
    {
      "id": "grind",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Grind #1–3",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. 1969–1973; before the remake",
      "order": 1972,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2006",
      "description": "A stranded traveling group encounters the Hewitts.",
      "note": "Grouped continuous three-issue run. Licensed prequel scope supports a broad family-killing era, not an exact 2006 story date; interior calendar unverified.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "grind",
        "comic-history",
        "beginning"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "est. 1969–1973; before the remake",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.avatarpress.com/texaschainsaw/TexasB.htm",
      "productName": "View original comic edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact publisher series page. Complete lettered preview not recovered.",
      "actionLabel": "View original comic edition",
      "storyGroup": "grind",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "wildstorm",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre #1–6 — WildStorm run",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. late 1973–1974; months after the massacre",
      "order": 1973.9,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2006–2007",
      "description": "Investigators pursue the Hewitt family’s aftermath.",
      "note": "Publisher explicitly says months following the murders. Actual exact inter-issue dates / any flashbacks remain uninspected; series kept together.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dc-main"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "est. late 1973–1974; months after the massacre",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/texas-chainsaw-massacre",
      "productName": "View official six-issue collection",
      "productMatch": "Exact 144-page containing edition; Amazon edition not yet verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official six-issue collection",
      "storyGroup": "wildstorm"
    },
    {
      "id": "cut",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Cut!",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "2003; thirty years after the massacre",
      "order": 2003,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "Film-school visitors investigate the Hewitt legend.",
      "note": "Original publisher states thirty-year interval from 1973. This is a story date supported by text, not inferred from its 2007 publication.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dc-cut",
        "novel",
        "dc-two"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "2003; thirty years after the massacre",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/comics/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-cut-1",
      "productName": "View official comic",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed one-shot; original complete interior unavailable.",
      "actionLabel": "View official comic",
      "storyGroup": "cut",
      "productLinks": [
        {
          "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/texas-chainsaw-massacre-vol-2",
          "productName": "View containing volume 2",
          "productMatch": "Publisher-confirmed containing edition; no new story counted for the collection.",
          "actionLabel": "View containing volume 2"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "cain",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Raising Cain #1–3",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Twins’ childhood → adulthood; exact calendar unverified",
      "order": null,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2008",
      "description": "Hewitt twins follow different paths after an attempted escape.",
      "note": "Major growing-up interval means this cannot safely be treated as three consecutive days. Original pages needed to split and date the eras; no arbitrary 2008 story year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dc-cain",
        "dc-two"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "Twins’ childhood → adulthood; exact calendar unverified",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Placement unresolved",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/comics/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-raising-cain-1",
      "productName": "View official comic series",
      "productMatch": "Correct three-part story. Exact containing volume / Amazon match needs verification.",
      "actionLabel": "View official comic series",
      "storyGroup": "cain",
      "productLinks": [
        {
          "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/texas-chainsaw-massacre-vol-2",
          "productName": "View containing volume 2",
          "productMatch": "Publisher-confirmed containing edition; no new story counted for the collection.",
          "actionLabel": "View containing volume 2"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "house",
      "title": "New Line Cinema’s House of Horror — chainsaw-salesman story",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. 1969–1973 Hewitt era",
      "order": 1972,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "A traveling chainsaw salesman stops in Texas.",
      "note": "A separate short in an anthology also containing Freddy. Shared publication is not a story crossover; interior year not verified.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dc-house",
        "beginning",
        "dc-two"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "est. 1969–1973 Hewitt era",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/comics/new-line-cinemas-house-of-horror-2007/new-line-cinemas-house-of-horror-1",
      "productName": "View official anthology issue",
      "productMatch": "Exact containing issue; no unrelated movie product substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official anthology issue",
      "storyGroup": "house",
      "eraWindow": true,
      "productLinks": [
        {
          "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/texas-chainsaw-massacre-vol-2",
          "productName": "View containing volume 2",
          "productMatch": "Publisher-confirmed containing edition; no new story counted for the collection.",
          "actionLabel": "View containing volume 2"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "petals",
      "title": "Petals — Maria Flores narrative prologue",
      "type": "Game / short",
      "date": "Spring wildflower season, 1973",
      "order": 1973.2,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "Maria’s photographic trip leads to the family.",
      "note": "Creator confirms narrative prequel to the main game. Date window follows spring flowers / missing-person case, not the real release year; exact day remains unverified.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "petals",
        "game"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "Spring wildflower season, 1973",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://petalsgame.itch.io/petals",
      "productName": "Play official free prologue",
      "productMatch": "Exact original free release; download / platform requirements apply.",
      "actionLabel": "Play official free prologue",
      "storyGroup": "petals"
    },
    {
      "id": "game-main",
      "title": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — main narrative / story DLC",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "April 1973; months before August massacre",
      "order": 1973.3,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2023 onward DLC",
      "description": "Ana and her friends search for Maria.",
      "note": "Creator explicitly describes this as film-connected canon. Match outcomes vary; group character / map expansions rather than inventing another story date per cosmetic pack.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "game",
        "game-lore",
        "game-dates",
        "game-store"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "April 1973; months before August massacre",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433140/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Exact original-film game and DLC; edition / server / region availability should be checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "storyGroup": "game-main"
    },
    {
      "id": "rush",
      "title": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — Rush Week",
      "type": "Game / DLC",
      "date": "1978; five years after the 1973 main story",
      "order": 1978.75,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "Johnny targets a sorority house.",
      "note": "Creative director explicitly states five years later. The story’s 1978 clock is separate from the mode’s 2024 release. Exact season / day still requires original date props.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "rush-clock",
        "game-dates"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "1978",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433140/",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Exact original-film game and DLC; edition / server / region availability should be checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "storyGroup": "rush"
    },
    {
      "id": "web-fiction",
      "title": "Maria Flores case — official broadcast / letters / web-story trail",
      "type": "Web fiction",
      "date": "Spring 1973; before Ana’s search",
      "order": 1973.25,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2022 onward",
      "description": "Narrative clues expand the missing-person case.",
      "note": "Official broadcast says missing more than two months; individual prop dates need original comparison. Do not force every clue into the same day or treat teasers as separate films.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "game",
        "game-lore"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "Spring 1973; before Ana’s search",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.txchainsawgame.com/hub/6fra234q4e0il15uexewjmc550i6wy",
      "productName": "Read original narrative broadcast",
      "productMatch": "Actual official script and missing-person material. Early claim Maria is dead was superseded by later game content.",
      "actionLabel": "Read original narrative broadcast",
      "storyGroup": "web-fiction"
    },
    {
      "id": "by-himself",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: By Himself",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "Korean War era, 1950–1953; later frame unverified",
      "order": 1951,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2007",
      "description": "Hoyt’s captivity reveals an earlier encounter with cannibalism.",
      "note": "Historical-war window applies to the recollection, not automatically every framing panel. Original full interior needed to split and date that frame.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dc-two",
        "by-himself",
        "by-war"
      ],
      "continuity": "hewitt",
      "railLabel": "Korean War era, 1950–1953; later frame unverified",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/texas-chainsaw-massacre-vol-2",
      "productName": "View containing comic collection",
      "productMatch": "Publisher confirms By Himself is included; exact Amazon edition unverified.",
      "actionLabel": "View containing comic collection",
      "storyGroup": "by-himself",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "atari",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — Atari 2600",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "est. August 1973; original film climax adaptation",
      "order": 1973.63,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "1983",
      "description": "Play Leatherface’s pursuit of escaping visitors.",
      "note": "Original manual explicitly recreates the movie climax. Same-story adaptation beside the original, not a new 1983 event.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "atari",
        "original"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "est. August 1973; original film climax adaptation",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.atariage.com/2600/manuals_old/texas_chainsaw_massacre.html",
      "productName": "Read original game manual",
      "productMatch": "Exact original instructions; legitimate current Amazon cartridge match not verified.",
      "actionLabel": "Read original game manual",
      "storyGroup": "original-original"
    },
    {
      "id": "jason",
      "title": "Jason vs. Leatherface #1–3",
      "type": "Comic",
      "date": "est. late twentieth century; incompatible crossover scenario",
      "order": 1990,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "1995–1996",
      "description": "Jason encounters the Sawyer family.",
      "note": "Group connected Topps run. Living-family / Jason circumstances do not establish an exact shared film date; publication years are not story dates.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "jason",
        "comic-history"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "est. late twentieth century; incompatible crossover scenario",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.comics.org/series/14460/details/timeline/",
      "productName": "View exact three-issue inventory",
      "productMatch": "Correct Topps issues, not an unrelated film disc. No current legitimate Amazon edition verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View exact three-issue inventory",
      "storyGroup": "jason",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd",
      "title": "Dead by Daylight — Leatherface chapter / character lore",
      "type": "Game / DLC",
      "date": "1970s-derived Leatherface; timeless Entity realm",
      "order": 1973,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2017",
      "description": "Leatherface enters the Entity’s trials.",
      "note": "Read official character lore; crossover does not fix a post-film calendar year or merge screen worlds.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "dbd"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "1970s-derived Leatherface; timeless Entity realm",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://deadbydaylight.com/game/characters/the-cannibal/",
      "productName": "View official character story",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed chapter / narrative page; regional purchase availability varies.",
      "actionLabel": "View official character story",
      "storyGroup": "dbd",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "mk",
      "title": "Mortal Kombat X — Leatherface / alternate arcade story",
      "type": "Game / DLC",
      "date": "Modern Earthrealm era; exact crossover calendar unverified",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2016",
      "description": "Leatherface joins a supernatural fighting-world scenario.",
      "note": "Licensed alternate ending / matchup does not establish film canon. Full arcade-ending comparison remains open.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "mk"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "Modern Earthrealm era; exact crossover calendar unverified",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://mortalkombatgamessupport.wbgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001114907-What-Is-Included-in-Kombat-Pack-1-and-Kombat-Pack-2",
      "productName": "View official DLC contents",
      "productMatch": "Exact pack includes Leatherface; not every base edition includes the DLC.",
      "actionLabel": "View official DLC contents",
      "storyGroup": "mk",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "zen",
      "title": "Texas Chainsaw Massacre Pinball — Zen digital table",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "est. early 2020s; 2022-film adaptation",
      "order": 2022,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2024; Pinball FX Midnight branding later",
      "description": "The bus massacre and final hunt become pinball modes.",
      "note": "Same story position as the Legendary film; real table release does not move the events to 2024. Different work from Spooky’s physical table.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "zen",
        "netflix-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "legacy",
      "railLabel": "est. early 2020s; 2022-film adaptation",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://zenstudios.com/games/texas-chainsaw-massacre-pinball/",
      "productName": "View official digital table",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed Legendary table; purchase / host-platform requirements vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View official digital table",
      "storyGroup": "legacy"
    },
    {
      "id": "spooky",
      "title": "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — Spooky physical pinball",
      "type": "Pinball",
      "date": "est. August 1973; original-film adaptation",
      "order": 1973.63,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2023 announcement / 2024 distribution",
      "description": "The family’s hunt becomes a physical pinball scenario.",
      "note": "Film-derived modes grouped beside the original story. Distinct from the Legendary / Zen digital table; no new fictional release-year sequel.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "spooky",
        "original"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "est. August 1973; original-film adaptation",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.spookypinball.com/2486-2/",
      "productName": "Read official table / mode information",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed physical table. Informational link; no hardware purchase is made or implied.",
      "actionLabel": "Read official table / mode information",
      "storyGroup": "original-original"
    },
    {
      "id": "sixflags",
      "title": "Texas Chainsaw Massacre — Fright Fest licensed attraction",
      "type": "Live attraction",
      "date": "Modern-era film-inspired setting; exact film route unverified",
      "order": 2000,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2024",
      "description": "Visitors enter a licensed Leatherface horror experience.",
      "note": "Official operator verifies the experience; no uninspected plot or performance-year story date invented.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "sixflags"
      ],
      "continuity": "crossovers",
      "railLabel": "Modern-era film-inspired setting; exact film route unverified",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://sf-static.sixflags.com/wp-content/uploads/2024-Fright-Fest-Guide-FINAL-min-2.pdf",
      "productName": "Read original operator guide",
      "productMatch": "Historical licensed attraction; current ticket / walkthrough availability not asserted.",
      "actionLabel": "Read original operator guide",
      "storyGroup": "sixflags",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "unleashed",
      "title": "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre — Universal Horror Unleashed adaptation",
      "type": "Live attraction",
      "date": "est. August 1973; original-film story setting",
      "order": 1973.63,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2025 onward",
      "description": "Visitors enter a live version of the original film’s rural terror.",
      "note": "Operator explicitly calls it film-inspired, based on 1974. Group beside source story; performance year does not date the fictional massacre. Full walkthrough / changed scripts not inspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "unleashed",
        "original"
      ],
      "continuity": "original",
      "railLabel": "est. August 1973; original-film story setting",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.universalhorrorunleashed.com/en/us/how-to-prepare",
      "productName": "Read official attraction setting",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding operator information; no ticket purchased, and no current run / price assumed beyond the cited page.",
      "actionLabel": "Read official attraction setting",
      "storyGroup": "original-original"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "original",
      "title": "Original film — rights-holder story date",
      "url": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official synopsis explicitly starts August 18, 1973. Film release in 1974 is a different date."
    },
    {
      "id": "film-inventory",
      "title": "Exurbia / Kim Henkel — official franchise inventory",
      "url": "https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Eight earlier films and official trailers inventoried; website’s Leatherface production/release chronology is not used as a fictional date."
    },
    {
      "id": "history",
      "title": "Texas State Historical Association — franchise history",
      "url": "https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-franchise",
      "kind": "Secondary / institutional film history",
      "note": "Independent institutional cross-check of films, remake and alternate continuities."
    },
    {
      "id": "iii",
      "title": "Leatherface III — film / opening-account inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherface%3A_The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_III",
      "kind": "Secondary / film inventory",
      "note": "Opening account’s Sally fate conflicts with later legacy sequel. Exact contemporary calendar needs original inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "next",
      "title": "Next Generation — dated film inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre",
      "kind": "Secondary / scene inventory",
      "note": "May 22, 1994 prom opening reported; 1995 premiere / 1997 distribution are not story dates."
    },
    {
      "id": "beginning",
      "title": "The Beginning — original disc chapter names",
      "url": "https://www.45cat.com/dvd/disc/9398710603996",
      "kind": "Secondary / original edition chapter inventory",
      "note": "Disc chapter inventory reports August 1939 opening / July 1969 main section. Original full movie not viewed in this pass."
    },
    {
      "id": "beginning-check",
      "title": "The Beginning — reviewed period cross-check",
      "url": "https://www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/565516/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-the-beginning-is-one-of-the-smartest-horror-films-ive-seen/",
      "kind": "Secondary / original-work review",
      "note": "1939 opening and 1969 main action independently reported."
    },
    {
      "id": "remake-edition",
      "title": "MVD — exact licensed 2003 edition",
      "url": "https://mvdshop.com/products/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-limited-edition-4k-ultra-hd",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Corresponding 2003 film edition / premise. Original movie not fully inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "novel",
      "title": "Black Flame / Google Books — Stephen Hand edition",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books?id=-8EKAAAACAAJ",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "2004 novelization; publisher blurb dates police visit August 20, 1973. Blurb is not a full interior preview."
    },
    {
      "id": "3d-date",
      "title": "Texas Chainsaw 3D — contemporary date / age critique",
      "url": "https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/big-screen/2013/jan/07/review-emtexas-chainsaw-3dem/",
      "kind": "Secondary / original-work review",
      "note": "Contemporary reviewer identifies modern 2012 setting and age mismatch. Keep estimate rather than inventing a 1990s solution."
    },
    {
      "id": "3d-director",
      "title": "Luessenhop — sequel discussion",
      "url": "https://www.dreadcentral.com/news/38634/exclusive-director-john-luessenhop-on-leatherface-s-legacy-and-more-for-texas-chainsaw-3d/",
      "kind": "Primary creator interview / secondary host",
      "note": "Creator discussion of the direct follow-up to the original."
    },
    {
      "id": "leatherface",
      "title": "Lionsgate / Millennium — original production notes",
      "url": "https://kfd.kinepolis.be/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/LEATHERFACE-Production-Notes-ITL.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Original studio production dossier; school / asylum youth and setting need date-specific comparison before exact calendar claims."
    },
    {
      "id": "netflix",
      "title": "Netflix — exact 2022 film",
      "url": "https://www.netflix.com/title/81483977",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Corresponding licensed streaming destination; access and region vary."
    },
    {
      "id": "netflix-clock",
      "title": "Netflix — original official trailer / interval",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcI6SFiK_yk",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official description says nearly fifty years of hiding, not an exact fifty-year calendar calculation."
    },
    {
      "id": "legendary",
      "title": "Legendary — legacy film publication",
      "url": "https://www.legendary.com/film/texas-chainsaw-massacre/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Original release February 18, 2022; not independent proof the story year is exactly 2022."
    },
    {
      "id": "avatar",
      "title": "Avatar — original licensed special announcement",
      "url": "https://www.avatarpress.com/texaschainsaw/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher explicitly dates the bank-robber special to summer 1972, Fuller, Texas. Variants are not additional stories."
    },
    {
      "id": "grind",
      "title": "Avatar — The Grind original series",
      "url": "https://www.avatarpress.com/texaschainsaw/TexasB.htm",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Brian Pulido / Daniel HDR comic; original publisher page inspected, no lettered interior date shown there."
    },
    {
      "id": "northstar",
      "title": "Northstar Leatherface — original edition inventory",
      "url": "https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=13211731",
      "kind": "Secondary / retailer edition inventory",
      "note": "Four-issue adaptation of III; covers / edition inventory do not equal full interior inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "comic-history",
      "title": "Licensed comic histories — adaptation / prequel scope",
      "url": "https://moviesandmania.com/2014/09/14/comics-from-hell-the-horror-films-that-spawned-comics/2/",
      "kind": "Secondary / publication history",
      "note": "Northstar adapts III; Avatar comics precede the remake rather than its 2003 release."
    },
    {
      "id": "dc-main",
      "title": "DC — six-issue WildStorm collection",
      "url": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/texas-chainsaw-massacre",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher says months after the massacre; follows Hewitt family. It is not automatically set in publication-year 2007."
    },
    {
      "id": "dc-boy",
      "title": "DC — About a Boy",
      "url": "https://www.dc.com/comics/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-about-a-boy-1",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher specifies troubled teenage Thomas before The Beginning. Age clock supports the 1950s from his 1939 birth, qualified until exact interior."
    },
    {
      "id": "dc-cut",
      "title": "DC — Cut!",
      "url": "https://www.dc.com/comics/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-cut-1",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher explicitly places film-school visitors thirty years after the massacre: 1973 + 30 = 2003."
    },
    {
      "id": "dc-cain",
      "title": "DC — Raising Cain #1",
      "url": "https://www.dc.com/comics/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-raising-cain-1",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Hewitt twins born, mother attempts escape. Series spans a growing-up interval; exact years require originals."
    },
    {
      "id": "dc-house",
      "title": "DC — New Line Cinema’s House of Horror",
      "url": "https://www.dc.com/comics/new-line-cinemas-house-of-horror-2007/new-line-cinemas-house-of-horror-1",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Two separate stories, Freddy and a chainsaw salesman. Shared anthology is not a crossover encounter."
    },
    {
      "id": "game",
      "title": "Gun — Maria / main story and stated canon connection",
      "url": "https://www.txchainsawgame.com/hub/6fra234q4e0il15uexewjmc550i6wy",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Developer explicitly connects prequel camp site to the film and says months prior. Older Maria-dead statement superseded by later playable-Maria content."
    },
    {
      "id": "game-lore",
      "title": "Gun — creator lore recap",
      "url": "https://www.txchainsawgame.com/hub/feb-29-lore-stream",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "DLC Danny searches before Ana’s group; stories / background developed with Kim Henkel."
    },
    {
      "id": "game-store",
      "title": "Gun — exact game and current DLC inventory",
      "url": "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433140/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official store lists narrative characters / locations. Cosmetics are not separate campaigns."
    },
    {
      "id": "petals",
      "title": "Petals — developer interview",
      "url": "https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/how-petals-preludes-texas-chainsaw-massacre-with-a-simple-photo-mode",
      "kind": "Primary developer interview / secondary host",
      "note": "Creator describes actual narrative prequel minigame, not merely a photo-mode marketing utility."
    },
    {
      "id": "petals-play",
      "title": "Gun — Petals original release",
      "url": "https://petalsgame.itch.io/petals",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Original free narrative game; platform / download requirements vary."
    },
    {
      "id": "rush",
      "title": "Gun — official Rush Week announcement",
      "url": "https://www.txchainsawgame.com/hub/content-pass",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Separate narrative game mode, not just another outfit. Exact original date screen still requires inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "game-dates",
      "title": "Game chronology — secondary cross-check",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Chain_Saw_Massacre_%282023_video_game%29",
      "kind": "Secondary / date inventory",
      "note": "Reports April 1973 main events and 1978 Rush Week; original date props not directly inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "dc-two",
      "title": "DC — complete second collection contents",
      "url": "https://www.dc.com/graphic-novels/the-texas-chainsaw-massacre-2007/texas-chainsaw-massacre-vol-2",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher contents add By Himself to Cut, About a Boy, Raising Cain and the anthology short; collections are access editions, not new stories."
    },
    {
      "id": "by-himself",
      "title": "By Himself — original edition inventory",
      "url": "https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=11148091&mingr=5",
      "kind": "Secondary / retailer edition inventory",
      "note": "Corresponding 2007 one-shot; full original interior not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "by-war",
      "title": "Licensed comics — Hoyt’s Korean War story",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Chainsaw_Massacre_%28comics%29",
      "kind": "Secondary / story inventory",
      "note": "Reports Korean War captivity narrative; original dated captions remain uninspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "rush-clock",
      "title": "Gun — original five-year Rush Week statement",
      "url": "https://www.txchainsawgame.com/hub/rush-week",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Creative director states five years later in this canon. 1973 + 5 fixes 1978 without using the real 2024 release."
    },
    {
      "id": "atari",
      "title": "Wizard Video — original Atari manual",
      "url": "https://www.atariage.com/2600/manuals_old/texas_chainsaw_massacre.html",
      "kind": "Primary manual / preservation transcription",
      "note": "Original instructions explicitly adapt the film’s climax, not a new narrative set in release-year 1983."
    },
    {
      "id": "jason",
      "title": "Topps — original three-issue publication inventory",
      "url": "https://www.comics.org/series/14460/details/timeline/",
      "kind": "Secondary / bibliographic inventory",
      "note": "Jason vs Leatherface #1–3, 1995–1996; exact narrative year and full interiors uninspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd",
      "title": "Behaviour — Cannibal original character narrative",
      "url": "https://deadbydaylight.com/game/characters/the-cannibal/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official story describes Leatherface’s fear / family connection in the Entity crossover; full host chronology is outside this guide."
    },
    {
      "id": "mk",
      "title": "Warner — Mortal Kombat X Kombat Pack 2",
      "url": "https://mortalkombatgamessupport.wbgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001114907-What-Is-Included-in-Kombat-Pack-1-and-Kombat-Pack-2",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official playable Leatherface verification. Individual arcade ending is an alternate outcome, not film canon."
    },
    {
      "id": "zen",
      "title": "Zen — licensed 2022-film pinball narrative",
      "url": "https://zenstudios.com/games/texas-chainsaw-massacre-pinball/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Current official table describes bus massacre / new arrivals and Legendary licence. Same 2024 table now marketed under Pinball FX Midnight."
    },
    {
      "id": "spooky",
      "title": "Spooky — original film physical pinball",
      "url": "https://www.spookypinball.com/2486-2/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official game mode updates; physical machine distinct from the licensed Zen / Legendary digital table."
    },
    {
      "id": "sixflags",
      "title": "Six Flags — original 2024 haunt guide",
      "url": "https://sf-static.sixflags.com/wp-content/uploads/2024-Fright-Fest-Guide-FINAL-min-2.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official operator inventories the licensed Texas Chainsaw attraction; exact original plot / film route requires full walkthrough."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon-original",
      "title": "Original film — verified 4K product reference",
      "url": "https://slickdeals.net/f/17230390-15-99-the-texas-chain-saw-massacre-4k-ultra-hd",
      "kind": "Secondary / edition match",
      "note": "Corresponding 1974 film 4K ASIN B0BN18188T linked. Historical price ignored; current availability not claimed."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon-novel",
      "title": "Amazon — exact Stephen Hand product",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1844160602",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Direct retailer title / author / ISBN 9781844160600 returned and matched the licensed Google Books record on October 27."
    },
    {
      "id": "unleashed",
      "title": "Universal — official original-film attraction premise",
      "url": "https://www.universalhorrorunleashed.com/en/us/how-to-prepare",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Operator explicitly identifies the Texas house as based on the 1974 film. This supports adaptation grouping, not an independent 2025 fictional sequel."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Avatar, WildStorm and Northstar original interiors",
      "type": "Comic inspection",
      "status": "Unresolved legal access",
      "note": "Original publisher pages / collections checked; no complete lettered previews recovered. Exact nested dates and Raising Cain’s age jumps remain open.",
      "sources": [
        "avatar",
        "grind",
        "dc-main",
        "northstar"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "The Beginning novelization / Skinfreak; announced future film / television",
      "type": "Unreleased / unverified projects",
      "status": "Not counted as published",
      "note": "Do not create products or released works from repeated fan claims. Original publication evidence required.",
      "sources": [
        "novel",
        "history"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Museum Mode; Universal / Horror Unleashed attraction adaptations; promotional trailers and cosmetic crossovers",
      "type": "Additional narrative eligibility",
      "status": "Inventory review remains open",
      "note": "Museum exploration is verified by official patch notes; a production museum is not automatically a new plot. Specific historical attraction scripts, variant cinematics and story-bearing promotions still require comparison.",
      "sources": [
        "game-store",
        "film-inventory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-27",
    "status": "Research edition — core films / licensed print / game narrative inventory checked; original-interior and attraction gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Nine released films inventoried; 1939 / 1969 Hewitt history distinct from Sawyer history.",
      "Original film shared across appropriate routes without counting repeat selector entries as new works.",
      "Primary publisher explicitly supplies Avatar summer 1972, main WildStorm months-after-1973 interval, and Cut thirty-years-later date.",
      "The Grind and continuous original run grouped. Raising Cain’s major age jump disclosed rather than falsified as one short period.",
      "Petals, main game, Rush Week and actual web fiction inventoried; Maria’s older death account must not override later official survival.",
      "Exact dates / ages in uninspected interiors remain qualified; legal preview hunt did not authorize fan scans.",
      "Second publisher collection caught omitted By Himself; added with Korean War clock. Original Atari manual read; Jason crossover, DBD, MKX and two distinct pinball adaptations individually inventoried.",
      "Rush Week’s original developer five-year statement replaces secondary-only estimated 1978 placement."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Original lettered comic interiors not exposed by the inspected Avatar / DC pages. Exact nested dates, Raising Cain’s age jumps, historical attraction scripts and promotional variant stories remain open; no full every-interior audit claimed.",
      "Film date-card / complete interior inspection remains open. 2012 Heather age mismatch and early sequel inconsistencies explicitly qualified.",
      "Comic / novel Amazon editions unverified; corresponding official destinations supplied.",
      "Main game DLC character bios and original date props need a full title-by-title narrative comparison."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}