The 28 Days Later Chronology

The revisionist zombie film and its sequels

28 Days Later
The 2002 film o Blu-ray
28 Days Later: The Aftermath
Tie-in comic
28 Days Later, vol.1: London Calling
Tie-in comic
28 Days Later, vol.2: A Bend in the Road
Tie-in comic
28 Days Later, vol.3: Hot Zone
Tie-in comic
28 Days Later, vol.4: Gangwar
Tie-in comic
28 Days Later, vol.5: Ghost Town
Tie-in comic
28 Days Later, vol.6: Homecoming
Tie-in comic
28 Weeks Later
THe 2007 film on Blu-ray

The Newsflesh Reading Order

Mira Grant’s post-zombie rising political thrillers

Countdown
Short story published in the 2017 collection, Rise.
Everglades
Short story published in the 2017 collection, Rise.
San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats
Short story published in the 2017 collection, Rise.
All the Pretty Little Horses
Short story published in the 2017 collection, Rise.
The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell
Short story published in the 2017 collection, Rise.
Feed
Novel published in 2010.
Feedback
Novel published in 2017. Parallels the events of Feed.
Deadline
Novel published in 2011.
Blackout
Novel published in 2012.
How Green This Land, How Blue this Sea
Short story published in the 2017 collection, Rise.
Please Do Not Taunt the Octopus
Short story published in the 2017 collection, Rise.
Coming to You Live
Short story published in the 2017 collection, Rise.

The Freeport Chronology

The original city of adventure for the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons

Death in Freeport (revised)
For levels 1 to 3, 3.5 edition.
Terror in Freeport (revised)
For levels 2 to 5, 3.5 edition.
Holiday in the Sun
For levels 2 to 4, 3rd edition.
The Lost Island
For levels 3 to 5, True20 edition.
The Last Resort
For levels 3 to 6, 3.5 edition. (Published in the Tales from Freeport anthology.
Madness in Freeport (revised)
For levels 4 to 6, 3.5 edition.
Cut-Throat’s Gold
For levels 4 to 7, 3.5 edition. (Published in the Tales from Freeport anthology.
Deus Ex Machina, part 1
Deus Ex Machina, part 2
Deus Ex Machina, part 3
For levels 5 to 6, 3rd edition.
Soul of the Serpent
For levels 5 to 7, 3.5 edition. (Published in the Tales from Freeport anthology.
Gangs of Freeport
For levels 5 to 7, 3.5 edition.
Blood of Freeport
For levels 6 to 8, 3.5 edition.
Peril in Freeport
For levels 6 to 8, Pathfinder edition.
Dark Wings Over Freeport
For levels 6 to 8, True20 edition.
Shadows in Freeport
For levels 6 to 8, 3rd edition.
Black Sails Over Freeport
For levels 6 and up, 3rd edition.
Fair Salvage
For levels 7 to 9, 3.5 edition. (Published in the Tales from Freeport anthology.
Crisis in Freeport
For levels 7 to 9, 3.5 edition.
Hell in Freeport
For levels 8 to 11, 3rd edition.

The Sixth Gun Reading Order

Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s dark and horrifying western epic

The Sixth Gun: Dust to Death
Reprints The Sixth Gun: Dust to Dust #1–3 (March 2015 – May 2015); & The Sixth Gun: Valley of Death #1–3 (June 2015 – August 2015).
The Sixth Gun: Days of the Dead
Reprints The Sixth Gun: Days of the Dead #1–5 (August 2014 – April 2015).
The Sixth Gun: Sons of the Gun
Reprints The Sixth Gun: Sons of the Gun #1–5 (February 2013 – July 2013).
The Sixth Gun, Book 1: Cold Dead Fingers
Reprints The Sixth Gun #1–6 (July 2010 – November 2010).
The Sixth Gun, Book 2: Crossroads
Reprints The Sixth Gun #7-11 (December 2010 – April 2011).
The Sixth Gun, Book 3: Bound
Reprints The Sixth Gun #12-17 (June 2011 – November 2011).
The Sixth Gun, Book 4: A Town Called Penance
Reprints The Sixth Gun #18-23 (October 2011 – June 2012).
The Sixth Gun, Book 5: Winter Wolves
Reprints The Sixth Gun #24-29 (August 2012 – February 2013).
The Sixth Gun, Book 6: Ghost Dance
Reprints The Sixth Gun #30-35 (April 2013 – October 2013).
The Sixth Gun, Book 7: Not The Bullet, But The Fall
Reprints The Sixth Gun #36-41 (November 2013 – June 2014).
The Sixth Gun, Book 8: Hell and High Water
Reprints The Sixth Gun #42-47 (August 2014 – March 2015).
The Sixth Gun, Book 9: Boot Hill
Reprints The Sixth Gun #48-50 (April 2016 – June 2016).
Shadow Roads: Volume One
Reprints Shadow Roads #1–5 (June 2018 – November 2018).
Shadow Roads: Volume Two
Reprints Shadow Roads #6-10 (June 2019 – September 2020).

Good news! Bunn and Hurtt have promised that the story will be continuing in 2025!

The Dark Eras Playing Order

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

The Thing From Another World Chronology

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.

The What We Do In The Shadows Viewing Order

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

The Pandemic Chronology

The classic cooperative board game in all its iterations

Prequels

Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Standalone game, released in 2022. Set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Pandemic: Fall of Rome
Standalone game, released in 2018. Set in the early 5th century.
Pandemic: Iberia
Standalone game, released in 2016. Set in the mid-19th century.
Pandemic: Rising Tide
Standalone game, released in 2017. Set in the late 19th century.
Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu
Standalone game, released in 2016. Set in the 1920s.
Pandemic: Legacy Season 0
Standalone game, released in 2020. Set in 1962.

Pandemic

Pandemic
The original game, released in 2008
Pandemic: On The Brink
Expansion to the original game, released in 2009
Pandemic: In The Lab
Expansion to the original game, released in 2013
Pandemic: State of Emergency
Expansion to the original game, released in 2015
Pandemic: The Cure
Standalone game, released in 2014
Pandemic: The Cure – Experimental Meds
Expansion to The Cure game, released in 2016
Pandemic: Contagion
Standalone game, released in 2014
Pandemic: Rapid Response
Standalone game, released in 2017
Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America
Standalone game, released in 2020
Pandemic: Hot Zone – Europe
Standalone game, released in 2021

The Future

Patient Zero: A Pandemic Novel
Novel by Amanda Bridgeman, released in 2021
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (Red)Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (Blue)
Standalone game, released in 2015. Set in the present and covers an entire year.
Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 (Yellow)Pandemic Legacy: Season 2 (Black)
Standalone game, released in 2017. Set 71 years after Pandemic Legacy: Season 1.

The Purge Viewing Order

An America that seems all too close for comfort…

2017

The First Purge
Film released in 2018

2022

The Purge
Film released in 2013

2023

The Purge: Anarchy
Film released in 2014

2027

The Purge: season one
Television series released in 2018

2031

The Purge: season two
Television series released in 2019.
This season cannot take place earlier than this year, but may take place later, though at the latest it would conclude in 2039.

2040

The Purge: Election Year
Film released in 2016

2048

The Forever Purge
Film released in 2021

The Anno Dracula Reading Order

Kim Newman’s alternate history of a world where Dracula defeated Van Helsing

1885

Dracula
The original novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897.
The timeline of the Anno Dracula stories diverges from this novel midway through chapter 21.
Dead Travel Fast
Short story taking place during the original novel, published in 2001. Takes place in the middle of the novel, can reasonably be read at any point between chapter 8 and chapter 18.

1888

Anno Dracula
Novel published in 1992.

1895

Anno Dracula: Seven Days in Mayhem
Graphic novel published in 2017.

1899

Yokai Town: Anno Dracula 1899
Short story published in 2001 in the anthology Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories.
One Thousand Monsters
Novel published in 2017.

1902

The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars
Short story published in the 2022 edition of Anno Dracula.

1917

The Bloody Red Baron
Novel published in 1995.

1923

Vampire Romance
Short story published in the 2012 edition of The Bloody Red Baron.

1959

Dracula Cha Cha Cha
Novel published in 1998.

1968

Aquarius
Short story published in the 2012 edition of Dracula Cha Cha Cha.

1976

Coppola’s Dracula
Short story published in Johnny Alucard.

1977

Castle in the Desert
Short story published in Johnny Alucard.

1978

Andy Warhol’s Dracula
Short story published in Johnny Alucard.

1980

Who Dares Wins
Short story published in Johnny Alucard.

1981

The Other Side of Midnight
Short story published in Johnny Alucard.

1984

You Are the Wind Beneath My Wings
Short story published in Johnny Alucard.

1990

Concert for Transylvania
Short story published in Johnny Alucard.

1999

Anno Dracula 1999: Daikaiju
Novel published in 2019.