Edition 01 · 1931 to 2025 · October 2027

The Canon

The films everyone means when they say horror. Ninety-four years in one month, from the first monster to the newest one.

Films
31, one a night
Range
1931 to 2025
Closes on
Sinners
Illustration of the poster. Photographs of the printed proof replace it once one exists.

Sample relic

A dark wooden roadside pole with a small carved mark, ink and wash on cream paper.
Edition
The Canon
Night
30
Film
Hereditary (2018)
Catalogue
Sealed with the relic

Concept rendering. The printed relic is hand-drawn to the same brief.

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The Unsealed Print · The Canon

An 18 × 24 inch print-ready PDF of the list, no scratch panels. Emailed after purchase. Nothing sealed, nothing to scratch: the month on one sheet, for your own printer or print shop.

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The month

Every title here changed what came after it. Watch them in order and you can feel the genre learning its own tricks: the shadow, the shower, the house, the tape, the thing in the ice. It ends in 2025 because the canon is still being written.

Pacing

Runtimes are moderate all month. The long nights are The Exorcist, The Shining, and Sinners; plan those for weekends.

Printable checklist for October 2026Calendar feed (.ics)

All thirty-one, in order

  1. 01OctFrankenstein1931
  2. 02OctCat People1942
  3. 03OctPeeping Tom1960
  4. 04OctPsycho1960
  5. 05OctThe Innocents1961
  6. 06OctCarnival of Souls1962
  7. 07OctThe Haunting1963
  8. 08OctNight of the Living Dead1968
  9. 09OctRosemary's Baby1968
  10. 10OctDon't Look Now1973
  11. 11OctThe Wicker Man1973
  12. 12OctThe Exorcist1973
  13. 13OctThe Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974
  14. 14OctCarrie1976
  15. 15OctEraserhead1977
  16. 16OctHalloween1978
  17. 17OctAlien1979
  18. 18OctThe Shining1980
  19. 19OctAn American Werewolf in London1981
  20. 20OctThe Thing1982
  21. 21OctVideodrome1983
  22. 22OctA Nightmare on Elm Street1984
  23. 23OctThe Fly1986
  24. 24OctThe Silence of the Lambs1991
  25. 25OctScream1996
  26. 26OctThe Descent2005
  27. 27OctIt Follows2014
  28. 28OctThe Witch2015
  29. 29OctGet Out2017
  30. 30OctHereditary2018
  31. 31HalloweenSinners2025

Titles are printed on the poster. What is under each panel is not shown anywhere, including here.

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Different month, same rules.