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Authors: F. Paul Wilson
1941 – (June) Alexandru sells
Compendium & other books to a Bucharest dealer
1941 – Jonah Stevens has visions instructing him to care for the Vessel
1942 – (Jan 6) the Vessel (a human clone) born to Jazzy
1942 –
Compendium
sold to American collector
(Feb) Jonah and Emma Stevens adopt the Vessel from St. F's – name him James
1946 – Walter Erskine born in
Chillicothe, MO
1949 – Ernst Drexler II born
1950 – Jack’s father trained as US Army sniper by Sgt. Nacht
1959 – Tom Jr born
1961 – Kate born
1962 – Jack's father gets vasectomy
1968 – Feb. 10
Reborn
: Rasalom conceived in Monroe, causing a cluster of freaks (see
Conspiracies
and "Faces")
Feb. 11 - Dr. Hanley crashes
Mar –
Dat Tay Vao
enters Walt Erskine
April – Jack conceived
Sept – Weezy Connell born
Nov 7 – Rasalom reborn in Hickory Hill, AK
1969 – Jan – Jack born
Feb – Mrs. Clevenger moves into
Johnson, NJ
April – Walter
Erskine’s sister’s (Adelle) husband Kurt Bainbridge transferred from Kansas, City, MO to his company’s Trenton office; knew Jack’s Dad in Korea (calls him “Killer”); moves to Johnson for the trout and bass fishing; provides home for his brother-in-law but not crazy about idea.
Oct – Eddie Connell born
SOMETIME IN THE EARLY 1970s – Jonah Stevens’s kids: Hank born in January; Jeremy 11 mo later in
Dec; Moonglow / Christy born following Dec.
1970 – 24-yr-old Walt Eskine gets medical discharge
from Army after treated for a mental condition at Northport V.A. Hospital. Diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Thinks he can heal people.
1972 – Walt joins a faith-healing tent show in the South
but kicked off the tour because he is never sober.
1974 – Walt comes to live with sister in J
ohnson, NJ
1975 – American collector killed and robbed of
Compendium
(Jonah Stevens)
1975 – Luther Brady receives
Compendium
after graduation from college
1979 – Jonah Stevens killed in elevator accident.
1981 – Tom starts Seton Hall Law
1982 – Kate spends Junior Year abroad in
France.
1982 – Walt Erskine in DC for march to Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedication
1983 – Aug:
Jack: Secret Histories
Sept: Kate starts UMDNJ
(
Jack: Secret Circles)
Oct:
Jack: Secret Vengeance
YEAR ZERO MINUS SIX:
- Walt Erskine moves
briefly to New York; meets Martin Spano
YEAR ZERO MINUS FIVE:
- The THEN sections of
Reprisal
end with Danny Gordon buried (late December)
YEAR ZERO MINUS FOUR:
- Bill Ryan ends up on
West End in Bahamas (January)
YEAR ZERO MINUS THREE:
- SIBS (February)
- "Faces" (early summer)
- THE TOMB (summer)
- "The Barrens" (ends in September)
- "A Day in the Life" (October)
- "The Long Way Home"
- LEGACIES (December)
YEAR ZERO
MINUS TWO:
- Bill Ryan becomes Will Ryerson and returns to US
- CONSPIRACIES (April) (includes "Home Repairs")
- ALL THE RAGE (May) (includes "The Last Rakosh")
- HOSTS (June)
- THE HAUNTED AIR (August)
- GATEWAYS (September)
- CRISSCROSS (November)
- INFERNAL (December)
YEAR ZERO
MINUS ONE
JANUARY
Harbingers
APRIL
early – Dawn Pickering conceives (
Bloodline)
Alan gets Dat-Tay-Vao / Walter Erskine dies (
The Touch
)
MAY
(late)
By the Sword
Dawn escapes Mr Osala; Jack
meets Glaeken and they retrieve the Gaijin Masamune
JULY
Alan’s house burns on a Monday
(later) 2 Kickers (“Sammy”) found dead in Manhattan of a host of diseases and avulsed intestines (
Touch
)
Jack reconnects with Weezy, the Lady dies a 2
nd
time (
Ground Zero)
AUGUST
The Touch
ends
Rasalom settles in
Pendleton, NC as Rafe
SEPTEMBER
“The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium” ends
OCTOBER / NOVEMBER / DECEMBER
The Order develops the Jihad virus
Rafe/Rasalom begins at seducing Lisl
YEAR ZERO
JANUARY
Dawn's baby boy is late
Rasalom – in Pendleton, NC
FEBRUARY
Rasalom – in NC setting up Ev and Lisl
Renny Augustino – in NC tracking Bill Ryan; then in NYC with Bill to dig up grave in St. Ann’s Cemetery; meets Glaeken and they burn remains
Glaeken goes to NC where Rasalom kills Renny and discovers Glaeken is mortal (
Reprisal
ends)
Fatal Error
end with the Lady terribly wounded but still alive
MARCH
The Dark at the End
: Jack goes back to Johnson to find the old sigil w. Rasalom’s Other name (first seen in
Jack: Secret Circles
)
Rasalom steals the Gaijin Masamune and uses it to kill the Lady for the 3
rd
and final time, thus paving the way for the Otherness.
MAY
Nightworld
begins
MARY
The Secret History of the World at a glance
The Past
“Demonsong”
(prehistory)
“The Compendium of Srem” (1498)
“Aryans and Absinthe”** (1923-1924)
Black Wind
(1926-1945)
The Keep
(1941)
Reborn
(February-March 1968)
“Dat Tay Vao”*** (March 1968)
Jack: Secret Histories
(1983)
Jack: Secret Circles
(1983)
Jack: Secret Vengeance
(1983)
“Faces”* (1988)
Cold City
(1990)
Dark City
(1991)
Fear City
(1993)
Year Zero Minus Three
Sibs
(February)
The Tomb
(summer)
“The Barrens”* (ends in September)
“A Day in the Life”* (October)
“The Long Way Home”+
Legacies
(December)
Year Zero Minus Two
“Interlude at Duane’s”** (April)
Conspiracies
(April) (includes “Home Repairs”+)
All the Rage
(May) (includes “The Last Rakosh”+)
Hosts
(June)
The Haunted Air
(August)
Gateways
(September)
Crisscross
(November)
Infernal
(December)
Year Zero Minus One
Harbi
ngers
(January)
“Infernal Night”++ (with Heather Graham)
Bloodline
(April)
By the Sword
(May)
Groun
d Zero
(July)
The Touch
(ends in August)
The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium
(ends in
September)
“Tenants”*
Year Zero
“Pelts”*
Reprisal
(ends in February)
Fatal Error
(February) (includes “The Wringer”+)
The Dark at the End
(March)
Nightworld
(May)
* available in
The Barrens and Others
** available in
Aftershock and Others
*** available in the 2009 reissue of
The Touch
or
Soft & Others
+ available in
Quick Fixes – Tales of Repairman Jack
++ available in
Face Off
All fiction by F. Paul Wilson (Secret History and otherwise)
Quick Fixes – Tales of Repairman Jack
Mirage
(with Matthew J. Costello)
Nightkill
(with Steven Spruill)
DNA Wars
(formerly
Masque
with Matthew J. Costello)