| # | | 1982 - 44 years ago | | 1 | December 24, 1982 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
December 24, 1982
Christmas Eve/Christmas Day the year before the Creed family moved to Maine - Seemingly everything that Louis and Rachel had gotten for the kids had to assembled, and they were up until 4am putting everything together.
| | 2 | December 25, 1982 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
December 25, 1982
Christmas Eve/Christmas Day the year before the Creed family moved to Maine - Seemingly everything that Louis and Rachel had gotten for the kids had to assembled, and they were up until 4am putting everything together.
| | 1983 - 43 years ago | | 3 | June 29, 1983 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
June 29, 1983
Louis Creed receives keys to his family's new house in Ludlow, Maine.
| | 4 | August 1, 1983 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
August 1, 1983
The Creed family moves into their new home in Ludlow, Maine. Neighbor Jud Crandall warns Louis about the dangers of road Route 15 and the Orinco trucks that travel it.
| | 5 | October 31, 1983 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
October 31, 1983
Halloween night. Ellie Creed dresses up as a witch. Norma Crandall suffers a heart attack.
| | 6 | November 22, 1983 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
November 22, 1983
Two days before Thanksgiving. Ludlow, Maine gets 4 inches of snow.
| | 7 | November 23, 1983 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
November 23, 1983
The day before Thanksgiving. The sky is clear and blue and cold. Louis Creed drives his family to Bangor International Airport for their flight to Chicago, where they will spend the holiday, back home with Rachel's parents.
| | 8 | November 24, 1983 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
November 24, 1983
Thanksgiving Day. Jud Crandall finds Louis Creed's daughter Ellie's cat Church dead in his yard. Jud takes Louis out to the Micmac burying ground, where Louis buries Church.
| | 9 | November 25, 1983 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
November 25, 1983
The day after Thanksgiving. Louis Creed lies to his daughter Ellie about not having seen her cat Church, after burying him in the Micmac burying ground the night before. Later that day, the previously dead cat returns to the Creed house.
| | 10 | December 24, 1983  | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
December 24, 1983
Christmas Eve. Louis and Rachel put out gifts for the kids - a set of matchbox racers for Gage, Barbie & Ken dolls for Ellie, a Turn 'n' Go, an oversized trike, doll clothes, a play oven with a light bulb inside, other stuff. After assembling Ellie's Bat-cycle, they curl up on the couch and watch the fire.
| | 11 | December 25, 1983 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
December 25, 1983
Christmas Day. Ellie Creed's faith in Santa clause restored Christmas morning by the footprints Louis leaves in the hearth. By mid afternoon, the Creed children decide that the boxes are more fun than the toys that came in them.
| | 12 | December 31, 1983 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
December 31, 1983
New Year's Eve. Jud and Norma Crandall visit the Creed family, drinking Rachel's egg nog. Louis realizes that Norma is beginning to fail. It will be the last time that she was in their house.
| | 1984 - 42 years ago | | 13 | January 23, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
January 23, 1984
Louis returns to the university for the beginning of the spring semester.
| | 14 | January 29, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
January 29, 1984
The warm spell breaks with a roar with the arrival of a blizzard, and a week of numbing subzero weather.
| | 15 | March 24, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
March 24, 1984
Louis Creed and his son Gage fly a vulture kite in their neighbor Mrs. Vinton's field. The last really happy day of Louis Creed's life, the things that were to come poised above him like a killing sash weight still over seven weeks in the future. Unbeknownst to him, his son Gage has less than two months to live.
| | 16 | May 14, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
May 14, 1984
Louis Creed's son Gage is killed crossing Route 15 by an Orinco truck while running away from his father. Narrator explicitly states the date of the funeral as May 17, adding that Gage's death was Saturday, three days before. Though May 14 was a Monday.
| | 17 | May 17, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
May 17, 1984
Louis son Gage's funeral. Louis gets into a fist fight with his father-in-law.
| | 18 | May 18, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
May 18, 1984
Gage buried in Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor, followed by a funeral party at the Gage residence in Ludlow.
| | 19 | May 19, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
May 19, 1984
Louis Creed pulls his son Gage's body out of his grave in Pleasantview Cemetery in Bangor around 2am. By 4am, he has re-buried Gage in the Micmac burying ground and arrived back home. A few hours later, Gage returns from the dead, killing Jud Crandall and Rachel Creed.
| | 20 | May 20, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
May 20, 1984
After driving Rachel and Ellie to the Bangor airport so that they can fly back to Chicago with Rachel's parents, Louis Creed purchases a flashlight, pick, shovel, spade, rope, work gloves and a canvas tarpaulin at Watson's Hardware in Brewer before checking into a Howard Johnson's motel. At 11pm, he heads for Pleasantview Cemetery to dig up his son's body.
| | 21 | May 21, 1984 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
May 21, 1984
Louis Creed is reunited with his son Gage, back from the dead. After discovering that Gage killed his neighbor Jud Crandall and wife Rachel, Louis kills Gage, burns down the Crandall house and buries Rachel's body in the Micmac burying ground.
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