Timeline

April 1454: Brother Goran is killed by witches despite creating a golem (which would become Joe Golem) for his and his village's protection. The golem killed many witches but still couldn't save his master.

December 1896: Dr. Nigel Hawthorne published his first story about Simon Church's investigations in Beeton's Christmas Annual.

1914: Lord Henry Baltimore’s regiment was attacked by vampires in France during WWI. Baltimore lost his leg and earned the ire of the powerful vampire, Haigus, for scarring his face and rendering him blind in one eye.

August 1916: On a vampire hunt, Lord Baltimore’s ship was sunk during a storm. He and a fellow survivor were washed ashore on a graveyard island where a strange fungus raised the dead. Lord Baltimore was forced to fight until the morning sun destroyed the re-animated corpses.

October 1916: Lord Baltimore meets and befriends Simon Hodge, formerly of the Boston Globe, also a survivor of Haigus.

October 1917: Lord Baltimore learned of The Red King, a demonic presence from Limbo that transformed humanity into monsters so they would worship him. Baltimore is also confronted by Judge Duvic of the Spanish Inquisition, who believes Baltimore is damned. Baltimore is forced to kill him, but Duvic survives by becoming a werewolf.

November 1919: Lord Baltimore kills Haigus, the vampire that started Baltimore on his path. He also reveals to his oldest friends that his fate is intertwined with The Red King and Haigus, one of Red King’s followers. He proves this by producing his own heart from a hole in his chest, which he no longer needs to live.

February 1920: Blood rains down on a small village in Estonia just as Lord Baltimore and his travelling companions save a local woman, Sofia Valk, from her undead husband. They track the occult occurrences to a witch cursing the village. Baltimore drowns the witch and destroys her Red King effigy.

May 1920: Members of Lord Baltimore’s hunting party, Thomas Childress, Simon Hodge, and Captain Demetrius, are killed searching for the Cult of the Red King by the Blood-Red Witch.

July 1920: Lord Baltimore found an altar to the Red King in Constantinople but was kidnapped by the Blood-Red Witch. She makes him watch as she opens a portal to release the Red King to possess the dead body of Thomas Childress.

1923: Lord Baltimore goes missing and is presumed dead.

April 1925: Lord Baltimore resurfaces, reuniting his hunting party who had spread out defending the world from the Red King’s army on multiple fronts. Baltimore had learned of the Red King’s coronation. They arrived just in time to watch the Red King, still possessing Childress, be crowned. However, nothing happened, giving Baltimore the chance to slay him. With The Red King dead, the hole in Baltimore’s chest began to bleed, and he could finally pass on and reunite with his family.

May 1925: Sofia puts Lord Baltimore’s body to rest on Trevelyan Island.

April 1955: Joe Golem wakes up in a golem statue in Simon Church’s possession.

September 1965: Joe Golem investigates missing children in The Drowning City. He finds most of them alive in the clutches of a fish man that the kids called the Rat Catcher.

October 1965: Joe Golem and Simon Church stop a zombie invasion at the Greenwich Village house of occultist, Argus Bostwick.

July 1967: A group of Germans make contact with a dark dimension, called The Outer Dark.

June 1968: Simon Church attempts to convince Joe's girlfriend, Lori Noonan, to give up on him by telling her the truth of his origin. When she refused, he used special herbs to wipe her memory.