contents 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 these tales occur three years before nightworld sibs ( february ) the tomb ( summer ) the barrens ( ends in september ) a day in the life ( october ) the long way home ( november ) legacies ( december ) year zero minus two these tales occur two years before nightworld interlude at duanes ( april ) conspiracies ( april ) all the rage ( may ) hosts ( june ) the haunted air ( august ) gateways ( september ) crisscross ( november ) infernal ( december ) year zero minus one these tales occur during the year before nightworld harbingers ( january ) infernal night ( with heather graham ) bloodline ( april ) by the sword ( may ) ground 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 ) the dark at the end ( march ) nightworld ( may ) timeline summary complete bibliography prehistory demonsong we start with a story from waaaay in the past , set about 15,000 years ago in what ive come to call the first age , when the ally and the otherness were more open about their contest for earth .