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The Dark Eras Playing Order

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A timeline of the various historical settings of the New World of Darkness roleplaying setting

Lighting the Match — Paleolithic Era
Promethean: The Created
The Sundered World — 5500-5000 BCE
Werewolf: The Forsaken & Mage: The Awakening
Igniting the Fire — 5500-5000 BCE
An expansion of The Sundered World for Hunter: The Vigil
Hunger in the Black Land — 1806 BCE
Beast: The Primordial, Werewolf: The Forsaken & Promethean: The Created
Rise of the Covenants — 1279 BCE
Vampire: The Requiem
Black Streets of Babylon — 625-539 BCE
Vampire: The Requiem
To The Strongest — 330-320 BCE
Mage: The Awakening
The Seven Wonders — 286-226 BCE
Changeling: The Lost & Promethean: The Created
The Fall of Isireion — 69-30 BCE
Mummy: The Curse
Forsaken by Rome — 9-12 CE
Werewolf: The Forsaken
Sic Semper Tyrannis — 69 CE
Vampire: The Requiem
Three Kingdoms of Darkness — 220-280 CE
Changeling: The Lost & Geist: The Sin-Eaters
Requiem for Rome — 361 CE
Vampire: The Requiem
Arthur’s Britannia — 400-500
Changeling: The Lost, Vampire: The Requiem & Hunter: The Vigil
The Wolf and the Raven — 700-1100
Werewolf: The Forsaken & Geist: The Sin-Eaters
One Thousand and One Nightmares — 832
Beast: The Primordial & Vampire: The Requiem
Goal of the Wise — 900-1000
Mage: The Awakening
Clash of Empires — 1095-1300
Vampire: The Requiem
Father Governs Child — 1238–1368
Vampire: The Requiem
Empire of Gold and Dust — 1337-1347
Hunter: The Vigil & Demon: The Descent
The Soulless and the Dead — 1346-1353
Vampire: The Requiem & Promethean: The Created
Iberian Nights — 1415-1580
Vampire: The Requiem
After the Fall — 1453-1458
Demon: The Descent
Princes of the Conquered Land — 1501-1568
Mage: The Awakening & Mummy: The Curse
Foreboding Lands — 1585-1590
Geist: The Sin-Eaters
Requiem for Regina — 1593
Vampire: The Requiem & Changeling: The Lost
Lily, Sabre, and Thorn — 1600s-early 1700s
Changeling: The Lost
The Scandinavian Witch Trials — 1608-1698
Mummy: The Curse & Geist: The Sin-Eaters
The Lost Generation — 1618-1648
Vampire: The Requiem
When the Horseman Rode — 1618-1648
Promethean: The Created
Light of the Sun — 1630-1640
Deviant: The Renegades, Mage: The Awakening & Demon: The Descent
Fallen Blossoms — 1640-1660
Hunter: The Vigil
Rise of the Imperials — 1644-1661
Mummy: The Curse & Hunter: The Vigil
Doubting Souls — 1690-1695
Hunter: The Vigil
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea — 1716-1717
Mage: The Awakening & Geist: The Sin-Eaters
Feeding the Fire — 1791
Vampire: The Requiem
The Reign of Terror — 1793
Vampire: The Requiem, Mummy: The Curse & Demon: The Descent
A Grimm Dark Era — 1812-1820
Changeling: The Lost
The Year Without a Summer — 1816
Promethean: The Created
Blood Flows West — 1839-1869
Vampire: The Requiem
Victorian Lost — 1850-1901
Changeling: The Lost
Age and Treachery — 1857
Vampire: The Requiem
A Fearful Lesson — 1865-1877
Beast: The Primordial
Mysterious Frontiers — 1874
Mage: The Awakening & Changeling: The Lost
Lifting the Veil — 1885-1890
Chronicles of Darkness: Second Sight
The Ruins of Empire — 1893-1924
Mummy: The Curse
Goodbye to All That — 1914-1918
Vampire: The Requiem
The Great War — 1914-1918
Geist: The Sin-Eaters, Werewolf: The Forsaken & Promethean: The Created
The Master’s Tools — 1917
Demon: The Descent
A Handful of Dust — 1933-1940
Promethean: The Created
Fear and the Golden Promise of Tomorrow — 1938-1946
Deviant: The Renegades & Werewolf: The Forsaken
Mage Noir — 1940s
Mage: The Awakening
God’s Own Country — 1950s
Geist: The Sin-Eaters
Into the Cold — 1961
Demon: The Descent
The Bowery Dogs — 1969-1979
Werewolf: The Forsaken
New Wave Requiem — 1980s
Vampire: The Requiem
Read Me Backwards — 1980s
Beast: The Primordial
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The Carl Hiaasen Universe Reading Order

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Part crime thriller, part satire of Florida, Hiassen’s work is like nothing else.

1986

Tourist Season
November-December
Tommy Tigertail and Al Garcia are introduced in this book. (The year is not specified in the book, but this is the most recent year where the dates and days of the year match for it.)
Published in 1986

1987

Double Whammy
January
Skink and Jim Tile are introduced in this book, Al Garcia returnss.
Published in 1988

1990

Skin Tight
January-February
Mick Stranahan, Luis Cordova, Kipper Garth and Chemo are introduced in this book, Al Garcia returns.
Published in 1989
Native Tongue
July-August
Skink and Jim Tile appear.
Published in 1991

1992

Strip Tease
July
Features Al Garcia. (This novel explicitly starts in September, but that does not match the date for the death of Anthony Salerno, a plot point in this book. It has been dated accordingly.)
Published in 1993
Stormy Weather
August-September
Features Skink and Jim Tile
Published in 1995

1995

Lucky You
November-December
tom Krome is introduced. (The year is not specified in the book, but this is the most recent year where the dates and days of the year match for it.)
Published in 1997

1998

Sick Puppy
April-May
Features Skink and Jim Tile. Introduces Twilly Spree.
Published in 2000

1999

Basket Case
August-September
Has no explicit connections to Hiaasen’s other works, but is too good not to include.
Published in 2002

2003

Skinny Dip
April
Mick Stranahan, Luis Cordova, Kipper Garth, Skink and Twilly Spree return.
Published in 2004

2006

Nature Girl
January
Tommy Tigertail returns.
Published in 2006

2008

Scat
Twilly Spree returns.
Published in 2009

2009

Star Island
June-July
SKink, Jim Tile and Chemo return.
Published in 2010

2013

Bad Monkey
July
Andrew Yancy, Rosa Campesino, Rogelio Burton, Sonny Summers and Tommy Lombardo are introduced.
Published in 2013
Skink – No Surrender
Summer
Features Skink and Jim Tile
Published in 2014

2015

Razor Girl
February-March
Andrew Yancy, Rosa Campesino, Rogelio Burton, Sonny Summers and Tommy Lombardo return.
Published in 2016

2020

Squeeze Me
January-March
Features Skink and Jim Tile, appears to take place in a world without Covid-19
Published in 2020
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The Thing From Another World Chronology

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The classic John Carpenter movie, and its assorted spin offs

1982

The Thing
The 2011 prequel movie on Blu-ray.
The Thing
The 1982 original movie on Blu-ray.
The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31
Board game adaptation of the original movie.
The Thing From Another World and Climate Fear
Comic sequel to the original movie.
The Thing
Game for Xbox, released 2002. Sequel to the original movie.

2005

Slither
Date specified in film. The character of R.J. McReady also appears in this film.
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The First Law Reading Order

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Joe Abercrombie’s grimdark fantasy world.

565

Made a Monster
Short story

566

A Beautiful Bastard
Short story

573

Small Kindnesses
Short story

574

The Fool Jobs
Short story

575

Skipping Town
Short story

575

The Blade Itself
Novel
Before They Are Hanged
Novel, continues in 576

576

Hell
Short story
Two’s Company
Short story
Last Argument of Kings
Novel, continues in 577

579

Best Served Cold
Novel, continues in 580

580

Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Short story

584

Some Desperado
Short story
Yesterday, Near a Village Called Barden
Short story
The Heroes
Novel

587

Three’s a Crowd
Short story

590

Freedom!
Short story
Red Country
Novel

592

Tough Times All Over
Short story

604

The Thread
Short story published in the novel A Little Hatred

605

A Little Hatred
Novel

606

The Trouble With Peace
Novel
The Wisdom of Crowds
Novel
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The Takeshi Kovacs Reading Order

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Richard K. Morgan’s excellent sci-fi noir series. Now a Netflix show.

Altered Carbon
Novel published 2002.
Broken Angels
Novel published 2003.
Woken Furies
Novel published 2005.
Altered Carbon: Download Blues
Graphic novel published 2019.
Altered Carbon: One Life, One Death
Graphic novel published 2022.

Your mileage may vary, but many Kovacs fans claim that Morgan’s later A Land Fit For Heroes series is a continuation of his tales. Whether or not you agree with that, they’re a cracking good read, well worth your time.

The Steel Remains
Novel published 2008.
The Cold Commands
Novel published 2011.
The Dark Defiles
Novel published 2014.
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The Neal Stephenson Universe Reading Order

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It turns out that one of our greatest living science fiction writers has been sneakily building a universe all this time.

Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, volume one)
Novel published in 2003.
The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, volume two)
Novel published in 2004.
The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, volume three)
Novel published in 2004.
Cryptonomicon
Novel published in 1999
Jipi and the Paranoid Chip
Short story published in Forbes magazine’s July 7, 1997 issue
Reamde
Novel published in 2011
Fall, or, Dodge in Hell
Novel published in 2019
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The World of Black Hammer Reading Order

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Jeff Lemire’s brilliant reimagining of classic superhero tropes.

Barbalien: Red Planet
Reprints Barbalien: Red Planet #1-5 (November 2020 – March 2021).
Set in the 1980s.
The Last Days of Black Hammer
Reprints The Last Days of Black Hammer #1-20 (January 2022 – July 2022), originally published on the Tales from the Farm Substack.
Set in the 1980s.
Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy
Reprints Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy #1-6 (December 2019 – February 2021).
Set in the 1990s.
Black Hammer, vol.1: Secret Origins
Reprints Black Hammer #1-6 (July 2016 – December 2016).
Black Hammer, vol.2: The Event
Reprints Black Hammer #7-11 & 13 (March 2017 – July 2017 & September 2017).
Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil
Reprints Sherlock Frankenstein and the Legion of Evil #1-4 (October 2017 – January 2018) & Black Hammer #12 (August 2016).
Doctor Andromeda & The Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows
Reprints Doctor Star & The Kingdom of Lost Tomorrows #1-4 (February 2018 – June 2018).
Originally titled Doctor Star, name changed due to legal action.
Black Hammer ’45: From the World of Black Hammer
Reprints Black Hammer ’45 #1-4 (March 2019 – June 2019).
Most of this series takes place in 1945, but it is placed here based on the dating of the framing sequence.
Black Hammer: Streets of Spiral
Reprints Black Hammer Giant-Sized Annual #1 (January 2017); Black Hammer: Cthu-Louise #1 (December 2018); Free Comic Book Day 2019: Black Hammer #1 (May 2019); World of Black Hammer Encyclopedia #1 (July 2019).
It is not entirely clear when the stories in the volume are set, but it is placed here as the Encyclopedia contains spoilers for earlier stories.
Black Hammer, vol.3: Age of Doom, Part I
Reprints Black Hammer: Age of Doom #1-5 (April 2018 – September 2018).
This volume includes a brief crossover with one of Lemire’s other works, Sweet Tooth.
Black Hammer, vol.4: Age of Doom, Part II
Reprints Black Hammer: Age of Doom #6-12 (October 2018 – September 2019).
Black Hammer / Justice League: Hammer of Justice!
Reprints Black Hammer / Justice League: Hammer of Justice! #1-5 (July 2019 – November 2019).
While this story appears to take place much earlier (possibly between Secret Origins and The Event), it also contains spoilers for Age of Doom, hence its placement here.
Crossover, vol.1: Kids Love Chains
Reprints Crossover #1-6 (November 2020 – April 2021).
It is unclear whether Colonel Weird‘s appearance here is canonical.
Colonel Weird: Cosmagog
Reprints Colonel Weird: Cosmagog #1-4 (October 2020 – January 2021).
Black Hammer, vol.5: Reborn, Part One
Reprints Black Hammer Reborn #1-4 (June 2021 – October 2021).
Black Hammer, vol.6: Reborn, Part Two
Reprints Black Hammer Reborn #5-8 (October 2021 – January 2022).
Black Hammer, vol.7: Reborn, Part Three
Reprints Black Hammer Reborn #9-12 (February 2022 – May 2022).
The Unbelievable Unteens
Reprints The Unbelievable Unteens 1-4 (August 2021 – November 2021).
Black Hammer, vol.8: The End
Reprints Black Hammer: The End #1-6 (August 2023 – March 2024).
The Quantum Age
Reprints Quantum Age #1-6 (July 2018 – January 2019).
Set in 2141.

There are also two additional volumes titled Black Hammer Visions volumes 1 and 2 – these have been specified to be non-canon by Lemire, but they’re still fun.

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The What We Do In The Shadows Viewing Order

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The hilarious mockumentary about vampires living in Wellington, New Zealand and its spinoffs

What We Do In The Shadows
The 2014 film
Wellington Paranormal, season one
The 2018 television series featuring the two cops who appear in the original film
What We Do In The Shadows, season one, episodes 1-7
The 2019 television series.
Episode seven features characters from the original film, as well as numerous guest stars (and allusions to still more), implying that the following films and television series also take place in this world:

What We Do In The Shadows, season one, episodes 8-9
Episode nine features a Babadook.
What We Do In The Shadows, season one, episode 10
 
Wellington Paranormal, season two
The 2019 season of the tv show
What We Do In The Shadows, season two
The 2020 season of the tv show
Wellington Paranormal, season three
The 2021 season of the tv show
What We Do In The Shadows, season three
The 2021 season of the tv show
Wellington Paranormal, season four
The 2022 season of the tv show
What We Do In The Shadows, season four
The 2022 season of the tv show
What We Do In The Shadows, season five
The 2023 season of the tv show
What We Do In The Shadows, season six
The 2024 season of the tv show
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The John Wick Chronology

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The stylish neo-noir thriller and its world

The Continental: From the World of John Wick
Prequel tv mini-series released in 2023.
John Wick, vol.1
Comic published in 2019, prequel to the first film.
John Wick Chronicles
Game released in 2017, on Steam.
John Wick Hex
Game released in 2019, on Switch. Also available on Xbox and PS4.
John Wick
Film released in 2014.
John Wick, Chapter 2
Film released in 2017.
John Wick, Chapter 3: Parabellum
Film released in 2019.
Ballerina: From the world of John Wick
Film released in 2025.
John Wick, Chapter 4
Film released in 2023.
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The Millarworld Reading Order

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The Millarworld is a series of interconnected comics, all written by Mark Millar, and arranged according to the order provided in Big Game.

Wanted
Originally published in 2003-2005.
American Jesus, Book One: Chosen
Originally published in 2004.
American Jesus, Book Two: The New Messiah
Originally published in 2019-2020.
American Jesus, Book Three: Revelation
Originally published in 2023.
Kick-Ass, Book One
Originally published in 2008-2010.
Kick-Ass, Book Two
Originally published in 2012-2013.
Kick-Ass, Book Three
Originally published in 2010-2012.
Kick-Ass, Book Four
Originally published in 2013–2014.
Superior
Originally published in 2010-2012.
Kingsman: The Secret Service: Kingsman
Originally published in 2012-2013.
Kingsman: The Red Diamond
Originally published in 2017-2018.
Super Crooks: The Heist
Originally published in 2012.
Jupiter’s Legacy, vol.1
Originally published in 2015.
Jupiter’s Legacy, vol.2
Originally published in 2015–2016.
Jupiter’s Legacy, vol.3
Originally published in 2013–2015.
Jupiter’s Legacy, vol.4
Originally published in 2016–2017.
Jupiter’s Legacy, vol.5
Originally published in 2021–2023.
Chrononauts Book One
Originally published in 2015.
Chrononauts Book Two
Originally published in 2020.
MPH
Originally published in 2014-2015.
Starlight
Originally published in 2014.
Hit Girl, vol.1: in Colombia
Originally published in 2018.
Hit Girl, vol.2: in Canada
Originally published in 2018.
Hit Girl, vol.3: in Rome
Originally published in 2019.
Hit Girl, vol.4: in Hollywood
Originally published in 2019.
Hit Girl, vol.5: in Hong Kong
Originally published in 2019.
Hit Girl, vol.6: in India
Originally published in 2020.
Empress
Originally published in 2016.
Huck
Originally published in 2015-2016.
Reborn
Originally published in 2016–2017.
The Magic Order, Book One
Originally published in 2018–2019.
The Magic Order, Book Two
Originally published in 2021–2022.
The Magic Order, Book Three
Originally published in 2022.
The Magic Order, Book Four
Originally published in 2023.
Prodigy, vol.1: The Evil Earth
Originally published in 2018–2019.
Prodigy, vol.2: The Icarus Society
Originally published in 2022.
Sharkey the Bounty Hunter
Originally published in 2019.
Space Bandits
Originally published in 2019.
Night Club, vol.1
Originally published in 2022–2023.
King of Spies
Originally published in 2022–2023.
The Ambassadors
Originally published in 2023.
Nemesis: Reloaded
Originally published in 2023.
Big Game
Originally published in 2023.
Nemesis: Rogues’ Gallery
Originally published in 2024.
Prodigy, vol.3: The Slaves of Mars
Originally published in 2024.
The Magic Order, Book Five
Originally published in 2025.