{ "metadata": { "id": "childhood-liminal-horror-lineage", "title": "Children's liminal horror: a historical and theoretical lineage", "version": "2026-08-23", "workCount": 41, "scope": "A bounded census of children’s and family-facing film and television works from 1903 through 2025 in which passage, orientation, belonging, or the expected operation of a familiar place becomes materially unreliable.", "evidenceNote": "Dates, production descriptions, and the limited official classifications shown here are attached to title-specific institutional, broadcaster, studio, distributor, archive, or scholarly records. Expected relations, breaches, liminal operations, scare levels, mechanisms, domains, featured status, and Atlas relations remain editorial interpretations.", "scareKey": { "0": "essentially non-scary", "1": "eerie", "2": "deliberately spooky", "3": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards" }, "scareKeyNote": "Scare level is an Atlas editorial intensity judgment within children’s and family-facing media. It is not an age rating, content rating, or viewing recommendation. An official classification appears only when the cited platform, distributor, studio, or classification record exposed one in the source audit.", "sourceCount": 77, "officialClassificationCount": 5, "workSpecificSourceCount": 69 }, "theory": { "lensId": "expected-relation", "lensTitle": "The expected-relation lens", "lens": "Children’s media makes the threshold contract unusually legible. A door should connect rooms, a train should carry passengers, a home should shelter, a village should contain plural social life, and a school or hotel should have an intelligible schedule. These are not asserted as universal developmental laws; they are recurring narrative affordances that the catalogue uses as an interpretive lens. Liminal horror begins when the familiar object remains present while the relation it promises becomes deceptive, recursive, unavailable, or coercive.", "portalFantasyBoundary": "Portal fantasy crosses into a destination whose rules become legible after arrival. Liminal horror keeps the ordinary invitation in view while damaging its guarantee: the door opens, but the room does not follow; the train moves, but destination disappears; the home remains recognizable, but shelter becomes capture. A portal may therefore be a threshold device without being liminal horror. The breach, not the aperture, decides the classification.", "historicalArgument": "The lineage changes its carrier. From 1903 to 1969, dream passages and magical portals make crossing visible. From 1970 to 1999, familiar geography, institutions, villages, homes, and child-spaces lose the rules that made them usable. From 2000 to 2025, the space itself increasingly performs the hostile operation: the house digests, the train never arrives, the replica home withdraws completion, and the town or attraction becomes an anomaly system.", "clusterArgument": "The 1975–1977 British cluster—The Changes, Sky, and Children of the Stones—moves liminal horror out of the isolated fantasy realm and into infrastructure, time, landscape, and community. The works preserve recognizable British roads, machines, villages, and prehistoric sites while withdrawing the social and temporal guarantees that make those places readable.", "analyticRule": "A work is retained when the failure of passage, orientation, placement, or belonging does causal or sustained affective work. A strange setting alone is insufficient." }, "eras": [ { "id": "1903-1969", "label": "Portals, dreams, and first uncanny worlds", "startYear": 1903, "endYear": 1969, "workIds": [ "alice-in-wonderland-1903", "the-blue-bird-1918", "peter-pan-1924", "wizard-of-oz-1939", "mr-i-magination-1949-52", "silver-swan-1952-53", "5000-fingers-1953", "singing-ringing-tree-1957", "lion-witch-wardrobe-1967", "hr-pufnstuf-1969", "owl-service-1969" ] }, { "id": "1970-1999", "label": "Familiar worlds lose their rules", "startYear": 1970, "endYear": 1999, "workIds": [ "phantom-tollbooth-1970", "land-of-the-lost-1974-76", "the-changes-1975", "sky-1975", "children-of-the-stones-1977", "into-the-labyrinth-1981-82", "something-wicked-1983", "return-to-oz-1985", "labyrinth-1986", "round-the-twist-1989-2001", "the-witches-1990", "are-you-afraid-1992-96", "goosebumps-1995-98", "halloweentown-1998", "courage-1999-2002" ] }, { "id": "2000-2025", "label": "The space becomes the monster", "startYear": 2000, "endYear": 2025, "workIds": [ "spirited-away-2001", "monster-house-2006", "coraline-2009", "gravity-falls-2012-16", "over-the-garden-wall-2014", "coco-2017", "the-hollow-2018-20", "hilda-2018-23", "infinity-train-2019-21", "sulphur-springs-2021-23", "just-beyond-2021", "nightbooks-2021", "dead-end-2022", "curses-2023-24", "in-your-dreams-2025" ] } ], "sources": [ { "id": "S001", "title": "The Rites of Passage", "author": "Arnold van Gennep", "kind": "foundational anthropology", "url": "https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3A%22The%20Rites%20of%20Passage%22%20au%3A%22Arnold%20van%20Gennep%22", "scope": "Separation, transition, and incorporation; used for the governed-passage distinction.", "evidenceStatus": "Existing Atlas source ledger" }, { "id": "S002", "title": "The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure", "author": "Victor Turner", "kind": "anthropology", "url": "https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3A%22The%20Ritual%20Process%3A%20Structure%20and%20Anti-Structure%22%20au%3A%22Victor%20Turner%22", "scope": "Liminal suspension and transformation; used as theory, not as evidence about a particular production.", "evidenceStatus": "Existing Atlas source ledger" }, { "id": "S005", "title": "The Poetics of Space", "author": "Gaston Bachelard", "kind": "phenomenology and literary criticism", "url": "https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3A%22The%20Poetics%20of%20Space%22%20au%3A%22Gaston%20Bachelard%22", "scope": "Domestic rooms, corners, houses, memory, and the affective promise of dwelling.", "evidenceStatus": "Existing Atlas source ledger" }, { "id": "S006", "title": "Of Other Spaces", "author": "Michel Foucault", "kind": "spatial theory", "url": "https://doi.org/10.2307/464648", "scope": "Heterotopia, regulated entry and exit, juxtaposed spaces, and altered temporal order.", "evidenceStatus": "Existing Atlas source ledger" }, { "id": "S015", "title": "The Weird and the Eerie", "author": "Mark Fisher", "kind": "cultural criticism", "url": "https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3A%22The%20Weird%20and%20the%20Eerie%22%20au%3A%22Mark%20Fisher%22", "scope": "Failures of presence and agency; used to distinguish an eerie setting from a liminal operation.", "evidenceStatus": "Existing Atlas source ledger" }, { "id": "S018", "title": "The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart", "author": "Noël Carroll", "kind": "horror theory", "url": "https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3A%22The%20Philosophy%20of%20Horror%22%20au%3A%22No%C3%ABl%20Carroll%22", "scope": "Horror affect and categorical violation; used for the scare distinction, not for ratings.", "evidenceStatus": "Existing Atlas source ledger" }, { "id": "S026", "title": "The Interface Effect", "author": "Alexander R. Galloway", "kind": "media theory", "url": "https://search.worldcat.org/search?q=ti%3A%22The%20Interface%20Effect%22%20au%3A%22Alexander%20R.%20Galloway%22", "scope": "Mediated passage, interface relations, and systems that organize action and visibility.", "evidenceStatus": "Existing Atlas source ledger" }, { "id": "S028", "title": "The Ethnography of Infrastructure", "author": "Susan Leigh Star", "kind": "infrastructure studies", "url": "https://doi.org/10.1177/00027649921955326", "scope": "Infrastructure as relational, learned, and exposed through breakdown; used for The Changes and related cases.", "evidenceStatus": "Existing Atlas source ledger" }, { "id": "CH001A", "title": "Alice in Wonderland (1903)", "authorOrPublisher": "BFI Player", "kind": "film archive record", "url": "https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-alice-in-wonderland-1903-online", "scope": "Film date, surviving work, first-version description, and family-programming context.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH001B", "title": "Alice in Wonderland (1903): synopsis", "authorOrPublisher": "BFI Screenonline", "kind": "archival synopsis", "url": "https://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/974410/synopsis.html", "scope": "Dream frame, hall of doors, shrinking, and passage through the small door.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH002A", "title": "The Blue Bird", "authorOrPublisher": "AFI Catalog", "kind": "film catalogue record", "url": "https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17031-THE-BLUE-BIRD", "scope": "Release, production, synopsis, and documented fantasy locations.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH003A", "title": "Peter Pan", "authorOrPublisher": "AFI Catalog", "kind": "film catalogue record", "url": "https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/1623", "scope": "Release, credits, and adaptation record.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH004A", "title": "The Wizard of Oz (1939)", "authorOrPublisher": "British Film Institute", "kind": "film record", "url": "https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/f2142b94-8e66-581d-88d3-d7e2fc5a2f17/the-wizard-of-oz", "scope": "Tornado transit, visual threshold, and family-film description.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH005A", "title": "Mr. I. Magination", "authorOrPublisher": "Paley Center for Media", "kind": "television archive record", "url": "https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item?item=T80%3A0779", "scope": "Series run, network, host, and children’s-programming classification.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH006A", "title": "Children’s Fantasy and SF", "authorOrPublisher": "BFI Screenonline", "kind": "television history", "url": "https://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1383217/index.html", "scope": "Early children’s television context and the violin’s time-transport function.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH007A", "title": "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.", "authorOrPublisher": "AFI Catalog", "kind": "film catalogue record", "url": "https://catalog.afi.com/Film/50832-THE-5000-FINGERS-OF-DR.-T", "scope": "Dream frame, enormous piano, institute, and authoritarian scheme.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH008A", "title": "Das singende, klingende Bäumchen", "authorOrPublisher": "DEFA Foundation", "kind": "film archive record", "url": "https://www.defa-stiftung.de/filme/filme-suchen/das-singende-klingende-baeumchen/", "scope": "1957 production, duration, transformations, and studio-built setting.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH008B", "title": "The TV That Made Us: The Singing Ringing Tree", "authorOrPublisher": "British Fantasy Society", "kind": "specialist television history", "url": "https://britishfantasysociety.org/the-tv-that-made-us-the-singing-ringing-tree-1957-1964/", "scope": "Secondary documentation of the 1964 BBC serialisation.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH009A", "title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "authorOrPublisher": "Kaleidoscope TV Archive", "kind": "television archive record", "url": "https://www.tvbrain.info/tv-archive?showname=The+Lion%2C+the+Witch+and+the+Wardrobe+&type=lostshow", "scope": "Episode-level documentation of the 1967 ITV serial and surviving-material status.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH009B", "title": "Stephanie L. Derrick PhD thesis", "authorOrPublisher": "University of Stirling", "kind": "doctoral thesis", "url": "https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/19765/1/Derrick%2C%20Stephanie%20L%20PhD%20Thesis.pdf", "scope": "Secondary production-history evidence for the adaptation’s place in the screen lineage.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH010A", "title": "Sid & Marty Krofft", "authorOrPublisher": "Sid & Marty Krofft Pictures", "kind": "rights-holder record", "url": "https://www.sidandmartykrofft.com/", "scope": "Series date and Living Island property record.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH010B", "title": "Pufnstuf", "authorOrPublisher": "Universal Pictures at Home", "kind": "licensed feature synopsis", "url": "https://www.universalpicturesathome.com/movies/pufnstuf", "scope": "Boat trap and Jimmy’s arrival in the fantasy setting.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH011A", "title": "Children’s Fantasy and SF", "authorOrPublisher": "BFI Screenonline", "kind": "television history", "url": "https://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1383217/index.html", "scope": "Production dates and BFI historical placement of the occult turn.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH012A", "title": "The Phantom Tollbooth", "authorOrPublisher": "AFI Catalog", "kind": "film catalogue record", "url": "https://catalog.afi.com/Film/23878-THE-PHANTOM-TOLLBOOTH", "scope": "Release, adaptation, and tollbooth passage in the synopsis.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH013A", "title": "Land of the Lost", "authorOrPublisher": "Paley Center for Media", "kind": "television archive record", "url": "https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item?item=T%3A02190.002&p=535&q=john", "scope": "NBC run, production, displacement, and return premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH013B", "title": "Land of the Lost production interview", "authorOrPublisher": "Television Academy Foundation", "kind": "oral-history excerpt", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShowoO-Dl18", "scope": "Production-history context from the television archive.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH014A", "title": "The Changes", "authorOrPublisher": "British Film Institute", "kind": "television release record", "url": "https://shop.bfi.org.uk/the-changes/", "scope": "Serial format, production, and technology-collapse premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH014B", "title": "Ringing the Changes", "authorOrPublisher": "Edge Hill University research repository", "kind": "peer-reviewed production history", "url": "https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/publications/ringing-the-changes-a-production-history-of-the-bbcs-adaptation-o-2/", "scope": "Scholarly production history of the BBC adaptation.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH015A", "title": "IBA Annual Report 1975–76", "authorOrPublisher": "Independent Broadcasting Authority", "kind": "broadcaster annual report", "url": "https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Television-%26-Radio-ITV/IBA-Annual%20Report-1975-1976.pdf", "scope": "Contemporary record of HTV’s science-fiction serial.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH015B", "title": "Stone circles: 10 staggering standing-stones on screen", "authorOrPublisher": "British Film Institute", "kind": "film and television history", "url": "https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/stone-circles-film", "scope": "Sky’s interdimensional premise and Stonehenge gateway.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH016A", "title": "7 ‘wyrd’ TV programmes from 1977", "authorOrPublisher": "British Film Institute", "kind": "television history", "url": "https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/tv-folk-horror-1977", "scope": "Transmission history, Milbury, standing stones, and free-will premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH016B", "title": "Stone circles: 10 staggering standing-stones on screen", "authorOrPublisher": "British Film Institute", "kind": "film and television history", "url": "https://www.bfi.org.uk/lists/stone-circles-film", "scope": "Avebury relation and stone-circle setting.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH017A", "title": "IBA Television and Radio 1982", "authorOrPublisher": "Independent Broadcasting Authority", "kind": "broadcaster annual report", "url": "https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Television-%26-Radio-ITV/IBA-Television-and-Radio-1982.pdf", "scope": "Contemporary record of the HTV children’s production.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH017B", "title": "Into the Labyrinth", "authorOrPublisher": "TVARK", "kind": "specialist programme record", "url": "https://tvark.org/into-the-labyrinth", "scope": "Secondary synopsis and series context.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH018A", "title": "Something Wicked This Way Comes", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney Movies", "kind": "official film record", "url": "https://movies.disney.com/something-wicked-this-way-comes", "scope": "Release, family-film listing, PG classification, and carnival premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH018B", "title": "Something Wicked This 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Company", "kind": "rights-holder film record", "url": "https://www.henson.com/labyrinth/", "scope": "1986 production, PG listing, quest, and deceptive maze.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH020B", "title": "Labyrinth", "authorOrPublisher": "Sony Pictures", "kind": "distributor film record", "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/labyrinth", "scope": "Release and synopsis.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH021A", "title": "Round the Twist", "authorOrPublisher": "Australian Children’s Television Foundation", "kind": "production archive record", "url": "https://actf.com.au/shows/id/248", "scope": "Production dates, series count, family, and lighthouse premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH021B", "title": "Round the Twist", "authorOrPublisher": "Australia’s Screen Online", "kind": "national screen archive record", "url": "https://aso.gov.au/titles/series/round-twist/", "scope": "Broadcast and production history.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH022A", "title": "The Witches", "authorOrPublisher": "AFI Catalog", "kind": "film catalogue record", "url": "https://catalog.afi.com/Film/58740-THE-WITCHES", "scope": "Production, adaptation, hotel architecture, and plot record.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH022B", "title": "The Witches", "authorOrPublisher": "British Board of Film Classification", "kind": "classification record", "url": "https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-witches-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmtk4nti", "scope": "Territory-specific classification history.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH023A", "title": "Are You Afraid of the Dark?", "authorOrPublisher": "Paramount+", "kind": "official series record", "url": "https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/are-you-afraid-of-the-dark/", "scope": "Series history, season count, anthology premise, and TV-Y7 listing.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH023B", "title": "The Tale of the Thirteenth Floor", "authorOrPublisher": "Paramount+", "kind": "official episode record", "url": "https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/are-you-afraid-of-the-dark/video/jJAu3FDSGyvSn8Z2agIqBXi6cTo_P4Q_/are-you-afraid-of-the-dark-the-tale-of-the-thirteenth-floor/", "scope": "Episode-level evidence for an apparently unused floor as the operative setting.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH024A", "title": "Goosebumps press kit", "authorOrPublisher": "Scholastic", "kind": "rights-holder press record", "url": "https://www.scholastic.com/newsroom/online-press-kits/goosebumps.html", "scope": "Franchise premise and ordinary-child framing.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH024B", "title": "Goosebumps", "authorOrPublisher": "Paramount+", "kind": "official series record", "url": "https://www.paramountplus.com/shows/goosebumps/", "scope": "Series and episode-setting records.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH025A", "title": "Halloweentown", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney Movies", "kind": "official film record", "url": "https://movies.disney.com/halloweentown", "scope": "Release date, TV-PG listing, and portal premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH025B", "title": "Halloweentown", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney+", "kind": "official platform record", "url": "https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-364b0e53-89c1-4667-ae5c-18d1ca0c9ad9", "scope": "Alternate town and ordinary civic life description.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH026A", "title": "The Triumphant Independent", "authorOrPublisher": "Animation World Network", "kind": "contemporary trade report", "url": "https://www.awn.com/animationworld/triumphant-independent", "scope": "Premiere and production-history context.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH026B", "title": "Cartoon Network launches safety initiative", "authorOrPublisher": "Warner Bros. Discovery pressroom", "kind": "network press record", "url": "https://press.wbd.com/us/media-release/cartoon-network-launches-initiative-help-kids-stay-safe-creative-and-entertained?language_content_entity=en", "scope": "Official property and middle-of-nowhere context.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH027A", "title": "Studio Ghibli works catalogue", "authorOrPublisher": "Studio Ghibli", "kind": "studio film record", "url": "https://www.ghibli.jp/works/?OpBrower=1", "scope": "Japanese release, duration, and principal credits.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH027B", "title": "Spirited Away (2001)", "authorOrPublisher": "British Film Institute", "kind": "film record", "url": "https://www.bfi.org.uk/film/f25b5afd-4b55-598b-8bed-f284de120f94/spirited-away", "scope": "Bathhouse labour and parental-transformation synopsis.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH028A", "title": "Monster House", "authorOrPublisher": "Sony Pictures", "kind": "official film record", "url": "https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/monsterhouse", "scope": "Release, genres, PG listing, and consuming-house premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH029A", "title": "Coraline", "authorOrPublisher": "Apple TV / LAIKA", "kind": "official film record", "url": "https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/coraline/umc.cmc.17hvodr5b8uuq3z45cs23akbd", "scope": "Release, secret-door premise, retention threat, and US PG listing.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH030A", "title": "Gravity Falls", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney", "kind": "official series record", "url": "https://shows.disney.com/gravity-falls", "scope": "Series date, TV-Y7 listing, genre, and mysterious-town premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH030B", "title": "Take a Trip to Gravity Falls", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney Video", "kind": "official video record", "url": "https://video.disney.com/watch/disneyxd-gravity-falls-take-a-trip-to-gravity-falls-4c274a704bbd7a38270bac3f", "scope": "Official unexplained-town framing.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH031A", "title": "Over the Garden Wall", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney+", "kind": "official platform record", "url": "https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-7955110c-56cb-45b1-9eae-68550344128b", "scope": "Miniseries format, 2014 date, TV-PG listing, and lost-in-the-forest premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH032A", "title": "Coco", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney Movies", "kind": "official film record", "url": "https://movies.disney.com/coco", "scope": "Release, PG listing, family genre, and ancestral journey.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH032B", "title": "Coco", "authorOrPublisher": "Pixar Animation Studios", "kind": "studio production record", "url": "https://www.pixar.com/coco", "scope": "Land of the Dead and production design logic.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH033A", "title": "The Hollow", "authorOrPublisher": "Netflix Media Center", "kind": "official production record", "url": "https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix/80147919", "scope": "2018 debut, bunker, towns, portals, and return premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH033B", "title": "The Hollow", "authorOrPublisher": "Netflix UK", "kind": "official platform record", "url": "https://www.netflix.com/gb/Title/80147919", "scope": "Two seasons and territory-specific PG listing.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH034A", "title": "Hilda", "authorOrPublisher": "Netflix", "kind": "official platform record", "url": "https://www.netflix.com/title/80115346", "scope": "Season count, TV-Y7 listing, Kids category, and forest-to-city premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH035A", "title": "Infinity Train official trailer", "authorOrPublisher": "Cartoon Network", "kind": "official trailer", "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYR9pV4f0b8", "scope": "Trapped passenger, car-to-car environments, puzzles, and search for home.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH035B", "title": "Infinity Train Book 3 release", "authorOrPublisher": "Warner Bros. Discovery", "kind": "studio press record", "url": "https://press.wbd.com/us/media-release/hbo-max/third-installment-animated-anthology-series-infinity-train-will-premiere-exclusively", "scope": "Anthology form and infinite-worlds description.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH035C", "title": "Infinity Train Book 4 release", "authorOrPublisher": "Warner Bros. Discovery", "kind": "studio press record", "url": "https://press.wbd.com/ca/media-release/cartoon-network-9/warnermedia-kids-family-shares-april-programming-highlights", "scope": "Book 4, creator, and Cartoon Network Studios production.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH036A", "title": "Secrets of Sulphur Springs", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney+", "kind": "official platform record", "url": "https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-52529180-e599-452a-aba1-bee488f0c173", "scope": "Run, seasons, TV-PG listing, Tremont Hotel, haunting, and portal to the past.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH037A", "title": "Just Beyond premiere and trailer", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney+ Press", "kind": "official press record", "url": "https://press.disneyplus.com/news/disney-plus-releases-rl-stine-just-beyond-trailer-", "scope": "Episode count, premiere date, anthology premise, and supernatural cases.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH037B", "title": "Just Beyond greenlight", "authorOrPublisher": "Disney+ Press", "kind": "official press record", "url": "https://press.disneyplus.com/news/disney-plus-greenlights-just-beyond", "scope": "Horror-comedy framing and 20th Television production.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH038A", "title": "Nightbooks", "authorOrPublisher": "Netflix", "kind": "official platform record", "url": "https://www.netflix.com/title/81002270?src=tudum", "scope": "Year, TV-PG listing, fantasy category, nightly-story condition, and magical-apartment trap.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH038B", "title": "Nightbooks", "authorOrPublisher": "Netflix Media Center", "kind": "official production record", "url": "https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix/81002270", "scope": "Film form and escape premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH039A", "title": "Dead End: Paranormal Park", "authorOrPublisher": "Netflix Canada", "kind": "official platform record", "url": "https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/80994692", "scope": "Two seasons, TV-Y7 listing, Kids category, and haunted-theme-park premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH039B", "title": "Dead End: Paranormal Park", "authorOrPublisher": "Netflix Media Center", "kind": "official production record", "url": "https://media.netflix.com/en/only-on-netflix/80994692", "scope": "Workplace haunted house, actual supernatural forces, and underworld multiplane.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH040A", "title": "Curses!", "authorOrPublisher": "Apple TV", "kind": "official platform record", "url": "https://tv.apple.com/us/show/curses/umc.cmc.4zami3bauzt4rzxhh4tzfmrfl?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.4000", "scope": "2023 release, Kids & Family category, US TV-G listing, artifact premise, and Season 2 painting episode.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH041A", "title": "In Your Dreams", "authorOrPublisher": "Netflix", "kind": "official platform record", "url": "https://www.netflix.com/title/80992977?src=tudum", "scope": "2025 date, PG listing, Kids category, dream landscape, and Sandman quest.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." }, { "id": "CH041B", "title": "In Your Dreams: cast and production", "authorOrPublisher": "Netflix Tudum", "kind": "official production article", "url": "https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/in-your-dreams-cast", "scope": "Release date, magical book, family-repair wish, Nightmara, and fear premise.", "evidenceStatus": "Work-specific record reviewed in the childhood-media source audit." } ], "works": [ { "id": "alice-in-wonderland-1903", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "Alice in Wonderland", "yearText": "1903", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Reference", "expectedRelation": "A door should open onto a usable room and a fall should end in a stable world.", "breach": "Doors, scale, and connected spaces obey dream logic rather than ordinary access.", "liminalOperation": "Rabbit hole, undersized doors, bodily scale changes, and waking make passage itself the event.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "mediation" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH001A", "CH001B" ], "factualRecord": "BFI identifies this as the first film version of the story. Its synopsis records Alice dreaming, following the rabbit, entering the hall of doors, shrinking, and passing through the small door.", "evidenceLimit": "The Atlas treats this as an early threshold form, not proof that a 1903 audience or filmmaker used a later liminal-horror concept. The ‘eight years after cinema began’ claim is omitted because cinema has competing origin dates." }, { "id": "the-blue-bird-1918", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "The Blue Bird", "yearText": "1918", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Reference", "expectedRelation": "A journey should move through a legible geography toward a destination.", "breach": "Memory, death, futurity, and night occupy adjoining but unstable realms.", "liminalOperation": "The children pass through metaphysical places whose status is neither ordinary geography nor simple fantasy country.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH002A" ], "factualRecord": "AFI records Maurice Tourneur’s film and its 31 March 1918 release. The synopsis follows sleeping children through the Palaces of Night and Luxury, a graveyard, and the Azure Palace; the production record also names the Memoryland set.", "evidenceLimit": "The Kingdom of the Future is not named in the retrieved AFI synopsis of this version and is not treated as a verified screen location here." }, { "id": "peter-pan-1924", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "Peter Pan", "yearText": "1924", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 0, "scareLabel": "essentially non-scary", "relation": "Reference", "expectedRelation": "A nursery window should mark domestic enclosure, not a route into suspended time.", "breach": "The window becomes a border to Neverland, where aging and ordinary time no longer hold.", "liminalOperation": "Domestic architecture opens into a world that suspends passage through age and chronology.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH003A" ], "factualRecord": "AFI records Herbert Brenon’s adaptation of Barrie’s fairy play and its national opening on 28 December 1924.", "evidenceLimit": "The nursery-window and suspended-aging reading comes from the narrative. The stronger claim that this was the first feature-film adaptation remains unverified by the retrieved archival record." }, { "id": "wizard-of-oz-1939", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "The Wizard of Oz", "yearText": "1939", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Reference", "expectedRelation": "A home should remain continuous with its landscape and a journey should retain a stable route.", "breach": "The tornado breaks geographic continuity and deposits Dorothy in a world with another physical order.", "liminalOperation": "A violent threshold turns domestic Kansas into an impossible route through Oz.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH004A" ], "factualRecord": "BFI describes Dorothy’s tornado passage from Kansas to Oz, the sepia-Kansas and Technicolor-Oz transition, and the film’s enduring family status.", "evidenceLimit": "The Atlas reads the color transition as an explicit threshold. It does not present unconsciousness as a sourced plot fact." }, { "id": "mr-i-magination-1949-52", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "Mr. I. Magination", "yearText": "1949–1952", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 0, "scareLabel": "essentially non-scary", "relation": "Reference", "expectedRelation": "A station should move travelers along an ordinary transit network.", "breach": "Grand Central Terminal and a train become a passage into Imagination Land.", "liminalOperation": "Transit infrastructure carries children across the boundary between ordinary broadcast space and imagined worlds.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "mediation" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH005A" ], "factualRecord": "The Paley archive catalogs a 1950 episode as children’s programming and gives the CBS series run as 1949–1952, with Paul Tripp as Mr. I. Magination.", "evidenceLimit": "The Grand Central Terminal setting, train passage, and Imagination Land are retained as catalogue-supplied interpretation but remain provisional until an episode-level institutional record confirms them." }, { "id": "silver-swan-1952-53", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "The Silver Swan", "yearText": "1952–1953", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Reference", "expectedRelation": "An heirloom should remain an object in the present.", "breach": "The violin transports characters into earlier periods.", "liminalOperation": "An ordinary object becomes a temporal threshold and makes historical time locally traversable.", "mechanisms": [ "mediation", "routing" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH006A" ], "factualRecord": "BFI identifies The Silver Swan as early British children’s fantasy and science-fiction television and says its heirloom violin transported viewers into past eras.", "evidenceLimit": "The record supports the temporal-threshold object. It does not establish the stronger label ‘first original British children’s television serial.’" }, { "id": "5000-fingers-1953", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T", "yearText": "1953", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A school or music institute should teach within humanly scaled rooms and schedules.", "breach": "The child’s everyday world becomes an authoritarian institution of monumental stairs, machinery, and corridors.", "liminalOperation": "Nightmare architecture turns instruction into an enclosed regime whose scale defeats ordinary childhood orientation.", "mechanisms": [ "authority", "recognition", "routing" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH007A" ], "factualRecord": "AFI records the 1953 fantasy and describes Bart falling asleep at the keyboard and dreaming of an enormous piano and the Terwilliker Institute, where 500 boys are to play.", "evidenceLimit": "‘Architectural childhood nightmare’ is an Atlas reading of the documented dream institution, not an archival genre label." }, { "id": "singing-ringing-tree-1957", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "The Singing Ringing Tree", "yearText": "1957", "medium": "film and television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Neighbor", "expectedRelation": "A fairy-tale route should disclose its rules as the traveler proceeds.", "breach": "Artificial landscapes and reversals make the route feel staged yet unreliable.", "liminalOperation": "Fairy-tale geography becomes an uncanny threshold system whose surfaces do not settle its rules.", "mechanisms": [ "recognition", "routing" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH008A", "CH008B" ], "factualRecord": "DEFA records Francesco Stefani’s 1957 East German feature, its magical garden, transformations, and studio-built fantasy world. A British Fantasy Society history documents the BBC’s 1964 three-part recut.", "evidenceLimit": "The BBC transmission history is specialist secondary documentation because an accessible BBC primary page was not located. Generational claims about its scariness remain reception history, not a universal judgment." }, { "id": "lion-witch-wardrobe-1967", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "yearText": "1967", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Reference", "expectedRelation": "A wardrobe should contain clothing, darkness, and a back panel.", "breach": "The closet has impossible depth and opens onto a forest and another world.", "liminalOperation": "A mundane object contains a spatially deeper elsewhere whose access depends on crossing the expected boundary.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH009A", "CH009B" ], "factualRecord": "Kaleidoscope’s TV Archive documents the 1967 ITV episode run. A University of Stirling thesis identifies the production as the story’s first visual adaptation.", "evidenceLimit": "The wardrobe’s threshold function belongs to the narrative rather than uniquely to this production. The first-adaptation claim rests on secondary scholarship because surviving production material is sparse; the earlier TV Times scan is no longer linked because its endpoint now returns 404." }, { "id": "hr-pufnstuf-1969", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "H.R. Pufnstuf", "yearText": "1969", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Neighbor", "expectedRelation": "An island should be a place one can leave by a known route.", "breach": "Jimmy is deposited on Living Island and repeatedly cannot find a reliable way home.", "liminalOperation": "A bright comic pocket reality preserves the child’s ordinary goal while withholding exit.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "care", "recognition" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH010A", "CH010B" ], "factualRecord": "The rights-holder identifies H.R. Pufnstuf as a 1969 series set on Living Island. Universal’s synopsis for the licensed feature records Witchiepoo’s boat as a trap for Jimmy and his flute.", "evidenceLimit": "The claim that Jimmy repeatedly tries to find a route home needs episode-level verification. The Atlas therefore treats the inescapable-pocket-world reading as a qualified interpretation." }, { "id": "owl-service-1969", "eraId": "1903-1969", "title": "The Owl Service", "yearText": "1969–1970", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "An isolated valley should remain a geographical setting with a stable present.", "breach": "Place, myth, history, and a megalithic site overlap and reactivate one another.", "liminalOperation": "The valley becomes a passage between contemporary childhood and a mythic past that still governs the present.", "mechanisms": [ "recognition", "authority", "routing" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH011A" ], "factualRecord": "BFI identifies The Owl Service as a 1969–1970 work concerned with adolescence and the occult, and places it at the start of a countercultural turn in British children’s fantasy and science fiction.", "evidenceLimit": "The Welsh setting and mythic overlap belong to the adaptation’s narrative analysis. The precise claim that a megalithic stone operates as a passage was not verified in the retrieved institutional record." }, { "id": "phantom-tollbooth-1970", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "The Phantom Tollbooth", "yearText": "1970", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Reference", "expectedRelation": "A child’s room should not contain a functioning tollbooth to another reality.", "breach": "The tollbooth appears without a civic or geographic warrant and begins a route into elsewhere.", "liminalOperation": "A small infrastructural object makes transition literal while keeping boredom and home as the point of departure.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH012A" ], "factualRecord": "AFI records MGM’s 90-minute 1970 children’s fantasy, adapted from Norton Juster, and describes Milo’s encounter with the tollbooth and entrance into its fantasy world.", "evidenceLimit": "The claim that the tollbooth unexpectedly appears in Milo’s room needs direct scene-level support. The Atlas classifies the work as a portal antecedent because the device enables passage rather than breaking its guarantee." }, { "id": "land-of-the-lost-1974-76", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Land of the Lost", "yearText": "1974–1976", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A family falling through a dimensional opening should still be able to locate a route home.", "breach": "The pocket universe supplies pylons, caves, and transit mechanisms without a dependable exit.", "liminalOperation": "Dimensional travel becomes enclosure: the world is legible enough to navigate but not enough to leave.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH013A", "CH013B" ], "factualRecord": "The Paley archive identifies the NBC children’s series and its 1974–1976 run. The Marshalls are displaced into a prehistoric world and seek a way back.", "evidenceLimit": "Pylons, caves, and particular transit mechanisms require episode-level citations. The closed-world and failed-return reading is Atlas synthesis." }, { "id": "the-changes-1975", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "The Changes", "yearText": "1975", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "Modern infrastructure should remain available as a shared means of movement and coordination.", "breach": "A sound turns people against machinery while towns and roads remain physically present.", "liminalOperation": "Infrastructure survives the social order that made it intelligible; ordinary Britain becomes a failed operating environment.", "mechanisms": [ "mediation", "authority", "recognition", "routing" ], "domains": [ "systems", "mind", "art" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH014A", "CH014B" ], "factualRecord": "BFI records the ten-part BBC science-fiction serial adapted by Anna Home from Peter Dickinson. Its production history describes the strange noise from machinery and pylons that drives people to attack technology amid social collapse.", "evidenceLimit": "‘Infrastructure after its social contract’ is the Atlas’s interpretation of the documented premise, not the language of the production record." }, { "id": "sky-1975", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Sky", "yearText": "1975", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A landscape should place a child in one historical time and a site should not secretly be a gateway.", "breach": "A boy from another time seeks the Jugenet, with Stonehenge as a temporal border.", "liminalOperation": "Landscape carries a temporal conflict and turns a familiar monument into an instrument of passage.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH015A", "CH015B" ], "factualRecord": "The IBA annual report records HTV’s Sky as a science-fiction serial. BFI describes Sky as an interdimensional being stranded on Earth and identifies Stonehenge as the Jugenet gateway sought by the children.", "evidenceLimit": "Exact seven-part transmission dates were not verified in a broadcaster programme listing. The temporal-landscape reading is Atlas inference." }, { "id": "children-of-the-stones-1977", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Children of the Stones", "yearText": "1977", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A village should contain differentiated people, ordinary time, and social disagreement.", "breach": "Milbury’s population behaves with eerie uniformity inside a circular temporal and cosmic system.", "liminalOperation": "The enclosed village converts community, landscape, and time into a mechanism that erodes individual identity.", "mechanisms": [ "authority", "recognition", "routing", "care" ], "domains": [ "systems", "mind", "art" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH016A", "CH016B" ], "factualRecord": "BFI records the seven-part ITV serial’s 10 January–21 February 1977 transmission and describes Milbury as a shadow-Avebury village whose standing stones power Hendrick’s removal of the villagers’ free will.", "evidenceLimit": "The loss of civic plurality and collective recognition is an Atlas inference drawn from the documented removal of free will." }, { "id": "into-the-labyrinth-1981-82", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Into the Labyrinth", "yearText": "1981–1982", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Reference", "expectedRelation": "A cave and a historical setting should remain stable locations.", "breach": "The wizard sends children through a time-labyrinth into altered historical and mythical environments.", "liminalOperation": "The route itself repeatedly changes the world in which the children must orient themselves.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "authority", "recognition" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH017A", "CH017B" ], "factualRecord": "The IBA’s 1982 annual report records HTV’s children’s serial. The programme record follows three children who aid Rothgo and traverse time in search of the stolen Nidus.", "evidenceLimit": "A strong surviving broadcaster synopsis was not located. The IBA source establishes the production; TVARK supplies programme detail as specialist secondary documentation." }, { "id": "something-wicked-1983", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Something Wicked This Way Comes", "yearText": "1983", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A fairground should offer public amusement in a legible civic space.", "breach": "A nocturnal carnival offers impossible fulfilment while concealing its coercive function.", "liminalOperation": "Entertainment architecture becomes a threshold whose attractions are traps for desire and identity.", "mechanisms": [ "authority", "recognition", "care" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH018A", "CH018B" ], "factualRecord": "Disney records the 29 April 1983 PG family film and describes Mr Dark’s Pandemonium Carnival arriving in Green Town and transforming townspeople.", "evidenceLimit": "The inversion of entertainment architecture into coercion is the Atlas’s mechanism reading.", "officialClassification": { "label": "PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Disney", "sourceId": "CH018A" } }, { "id": "return-to-oz-1985", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Return to Oz", "yearText": "1985", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A remembered world should retain enough continuity to be recognized and revisited.", "breach": "The institutional passage leads to an emptied, ruined, and hostile version of Oz.", "liminalOperation": "The sequel turns return into failed recognition: the known world remains as a damaged shell.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "authority", "care" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH019A", "CH019B" ], "factualRecord": "Disney records the 21 June 1985 PG family fantasy, Dorothy’s institutionalization, her return to a ruined Oz, and the Emerald City as a wasteland.", "evidenceLimit": "‘Return-to-the-known-as-ruin’ is an Atlas classification of those documented story conditions.", "officialClassification": { "label": "PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Disney", "sourceId": "CH019A" } }, { "id": "labyrinth-1986", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Labyrinth", "yearText": "1986", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A maze should provide a navigable relation between entrance and exit.", "breach": "Doors deceive, routes change, and interiors refuse ordinary geometry.", "liminalOperation": "Orientation fails as a sustained operation; the maze is an active threshold rather than scenery.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH020A", "CH020B" ], "factualRecord": "The Jim Henson Company records the 1986 PG feature and describes Sarah’s route through a deceptive maze to retrieve Toby; Sony preserves the release record.", "evidenceLimit": "Route failure is an Atlas formalization of the documented maze of deception, not a production genre label.", "officialClassification": { "label": "PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Henson", "sourceId": "CH020A" } }, { "id": "round-the-twist-1989-2001", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Round the Twist", "yearText": "1989 production; 1990–2000 broadcast", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A family lighthouse should mark a stable home and a navigable coast.", "breach": "Ghosts, cursed objects, and impossible spaces repeatedly enter domestic routines.", "liminalOperation": "The lighthouse makes home a permanent threshold between family life, sea, and the supernatural.", "mechanisms": [ "care", "routing", "recognition" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH021A", "CH021B" ], "factualRecord": "The Australian Children’s Television Foundation and Australia’s Screen Online record four series: the first was produced in 1989 and broadcast in 1990, with the final series completed in 2000. The Twist family lives in a haunted lighthouse at Port Niranda.", "evidenceLimit": "The prior 1989–2001 label conflated production and broadcast dates. The lighthouse-as-threshold reading is Atlas synthesis." }, { "id": "the-witches-1990", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "The Witches", "yearText": "1990", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A hotel should provide ordinary hospitality and social visibility.", "breach": "A respectable seaside hotel becomes headquarters for an incompatible hidden institution.", "liminalOperation": "The hotel retains its public function while operating as a covert site of transformation.", "mechanisms": [ "authority", "recognition", "care" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH022A", "CH022B" ], "factualRecord": "AFI records Nicolas Roeg’s 1990 children’s fantasy-horror adaptation, the decaying Edwardian seaside hotel exterior, purpose-built interiors, and witches masquerading as ordinary women.", "evidenceLimit": "The hotel’s hospitality inversion is Atlas interpretation. The BBFC record is retained as classification history without converting it into a universal age judgment." }, { "id": "are-you-afraid-1992-96", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Are You Afraid of the Dark?", "yearText": "1992–1996", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A school, hotel, floor, basement, or amusement park should have an ordinary occupancy and boundary.", "breach": "Empty or unused spaces reveal parallel realities and hostile routes within familiar buildings.", "liminalOperation": "The anthology teaches the threshold contract by repeatedly breaking the expected use of child-scale spaces.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "mediation", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH023A", "CH023B" ], "factualRecord": "Paramount records Nickelodeon’s original anthology as beginning in 1992, spanning five seasons, and carrying a TV-Y7 listing. Its episode record establishes the apparently empty thirteenth floor as a specific setting.", "evidenceLimit": "The broader recurrence of schools, cinemas, amusement spaces, and parallel realities is an anthology-level Atlas reading supported unevenly across episode records.", "officialClassification": { "label": "TV-Y7", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Paramount+", "sourceId": "CH023A" } }, { "id": "goosebumps-1995-98", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Goosebumps", "yearText": "1995–1998", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A bedroom, school, camp, or amusement park should preserve familiar child-space rules.", "breach": "Ordinary settings conceal rules that change what the space is for and how escape works.", "liminalOperation": "The series turns everyday child environments into repeatable sites of spatial and ontological instability.", "mechanisms": [ "recognition", "routing", "authority", "mediation" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH024A", "CH024B" ], "factualRecord": "Scholastic frames Goosebumps around ordinary children encountering extraordinary scary situations. Paramount’s series and episode records substantiate recurring domestic, school, camp, and clock settings.", "evidenceLimit": "No single setting represents the full series. The claim concerns the anthology’s repeated operation across child-scale environments." }, { "id": "halloweentown-1998", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Halloweentown", "yearText": "1998", "medium": "television film", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Neighbor", "expectedRelation": "A bus route should remain inside the civic geography its passengers know.", "breach": "The bus crosses into a parallel town where monsters occupy ordinary civic space.", "liminalOperation": "The threshold is gentle but exact: civic normality is revealed as one local order among several.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "care" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH025A", "CH025B" ], "factualRecord": "Disney records the 17 October 1998 TV-PG film and describes a secret portal to a town where supernatural beings live ordinary civic lives apart from the human world.", "evidenceLimit": "The bus appears in the film, but the official pages retrieved establish a portal rather than the vehicle as the threshold mechanism. The Atlas retains the work as a reparative Neighbor rather than a failed-passage Core case.", "officialClassification": { "label": "TV-PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Disney", "sourceId": "CH025A" } }, { "id": "courage-1999-2002", "eraId": "1970-1999", "title": "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "yearText": "1999–2002", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A farmhouse should shelter its inhabitants and roads should connect them to society.", "breach": "The house sits in the middle of Nowhere while rooms, roads, motels, and machines open into nightmares.", "liminalOperation": "Isolation makes domestic space a repeated portal and turns shelter into the condition of exposure.", "mechanisms": [ "care", "routing", "recognition", "mediation" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH026A", "CH026B" ], "factualRecord": "Contemporary trade coverage records the Cartoon Network premiere on 12 November 1999 and traces the series to John R. Dilworth’s 1995 short. Cartoon Network material preserves the property and its middle-of-nowhere premise.", "evidenceLimit": "The current official record does not supply a detailed original-series synopsis. Specific doors, basements, roads, motels, or computer spaces require episode-level support." }, { "id": "spirited-away-2001", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Spirited Away", "yearText": "2001", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A tunnel and leisure complex should remain routes through ordinary geography.", "breach": "Dusk changes an abandoned complex into a supernatural order and the parents disappear into it.", "liminalOperation": "Tunnel, bathhouse, bridge, and train coordinate a passage between human and spirit economies.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "authority", "care", "recognition" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH027A", "CH027B" ], "factualRecord": "Studio Ghibli records the Japanese release on 20 July 2001 and credits Hayao Miyazaki as writer and director. BFI describes Chihiro working in a bathhouse of gods to rescue her transformed parents.", "evidenceLimit": "No current official age classification was located in the audit. Tunnel, abandoned leisure complex, dusk transition, and flooded train are film observations joined by Atlas analysis." }, { "id": "monster-house-2006", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Monster House", "yearText": "2006", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A suburban house should shelter people and keep its interior spatially subordinate to its exterior.", "breach": "The home becomes an organic, impossible interior capable of swallowing people.", "liminalOperation": "Suburban architecture retains its facade while becoming an active body and hostile route.", "mechanisms": [ "care", "recognition", "routing" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH028A" ], "factualRecord": "Sony identifies the 2006 Columbia release as Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, and Horror, lists it PG, and describes Nebbercracker’s cavernous house swallowing objects.", "evidenceLimit": "The house-as-operative-body classification is Atlas synthesis of the distributor’s documented premise.", "officialClassification": { "label": "PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Sony", "sourceId": "CH028A" } }, { "id": "coraline-2009", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Coraline", "yearText": "2009", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A small door should lead to a wall, and a home should be singular, protective, and inhabited by recognizable relations.", "breach": "The door opens into a replica home and neighborhood whose social guarantees progressively disappear.", "liminalOperation": "Duplicate architecture becomes a false passage from domestic dissatisfaction into capture and unfinished void.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "care", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH029A" ], "factualRecord": "Apple’s LAIKA listing records the 2009 film, the secret door into a world like Coraline’s own but better, the Other Mother’s attempt to keep her there, and a United States PG listing.", "evidenceLimit": "The progressively incomplete space and care-without-reciprocity reading are Atlas observations, not phrases from the official synopsis.", "officialClassification": { "label": "PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Apple TV", "sourceId": "CH029A" } }, { "id": "gravity-falls-2012-16", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Gravity Falls", "yearText": "2012–2016", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A tourist town should be a readable civic setting with hidden places remaining exceptional.", "breach": "Bunkers, rooms, pits, dreams, and dimensional events make the whole town an anomaly zone.", "liminalOperation": "The town’s ordinary surface becomes a system of concealed thresholds and competing realities.", "mechanisms": [ "recognition", "routing", "mediation", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH030A", "CH030B" ], "factualRecord": "Disney records the 2012 series as TV-Y7 and describes Gravity Falls as a mysterious town with peculiar residents; official video copy presents the unexplained as a defining condition.", "evidenceLimit": "‘Anomaly zone’ names the Atlas’s reading of recurring exceptions, not an official category.", "officialClassification": { "label": "TV-Y7", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Disney", "sourceId": "CH030A" } }, { "id": "over-the-garden-wall-2014", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Over the Garden Wall", "yearText": "2014", "medium": "television miniseries", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A forest path, inn, school, or ferry should locate travelers in a shared historical world.", "breach": "The Unknown joins recognizable places without a stable period, map, or destination.", "liminalOperation": "The landscape holds the brothers between histories, destinations, and states of existence.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "care", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH031A" ], "factualRecord": "Disney+ records the 2014 Cartoon Network miniseries, its TV-PG listing, and the premise of Wirt and Greg lost in a strange forest while trying to find home.", "evidenceLimit": "The Unknown’s unstable period, location, and route are Atlas analysis of the series rather than fields in the platform record.", "officialClassification": { "label": "TV-PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Disney+", "sourceId": "CH031A" } }, { "id": "coco-2017", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Coco", "yearText": "2017", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Neighbor", "expectedRelation": "A bridge and a calendar threshold should connect living and dead without making belonging arbitrary.", "breach": "The marigold bridge makes passage conditional on memory, recognition, and ritual timing.", "liminalOperation": "Calendrical ritual turns family memory into a governed route between ontological orders.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "care", "recognition" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "life" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH032A", "CH032B" ], "factualRecord": "Disney records the 27 October 2017 PG family fantasy in which Miguel journeys to the land of his ancestors. Pixar identifies the Land of the Dead and explains its expandable design logic.", "evidenceLimit": "The bridge supplies literal threshold form, but the passage works and supports kinship repair. The Atlas retains Coco as a warm Neighbor, not liminal horror.", "officialClassification": { "label": "PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Disney", "sourceId": "CH032A" } }, { "id": "the-hollow-2018-20", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "The Hollow", "yearText": "2018–2020", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A room should have doors, identities should have histories, and environments should share a world.", "breach": "Three children awaken without memory in a sealed room and move through incompatible environments.", "liminalOperation": "The series makes disorientation, amnesia, and portal sequence the primary architecture of the plot.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "mediation" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH033A", "CH033B" ], "factualRecord": "Netflix Media Center records the 2018 debut and follows three teens from an underground bunker through bizarre towns and time portals. Netflix’s UK page lists two seasons and a territory-specific PG classification.", "evidenceLimit": "The PG label belongs to the retrieved UK listing and is not universalized. The orientation-as-puzzle-system account is Atlas synthesis.", "officialClassification": { "label": "PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United Kingdom / Netflix", "sourceId": "CH033B" } }, { "id": "hilda-2018-23", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Hilda", "yearText": "2018–2023", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Neighbor", "expectedRelation": "A city border should divide civic space from what it excludes.", "breach": "Invisible communities, trolls, ghosts, and hidden places coexist with ordinary streets.", "liminalOperation": "The series makes the everyday city a negotiated contact zone between human and nonhuman orders.", "mechanisms": [ "recognition", "care", "routing" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH034A" ], "factualRecord": "Netflix’s official page lists three seasons, TV-Y7, and a Kids category; its synopsis follows Hilda from an enchanted forest into a city inhabited by magical creatures.", "evidenceLimit": "The page supports the current season count and classification. The 2018–2023 run and invisible-community reading retain catalogue-level support rather than a production chronology on that page.", "officialClassification": { "label": "TV-Y7", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Netflix", "sourceId": "CH034A" } }, { "id": "infinity-train-2019-21", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Infinity Train", "yearText": "2019–2021", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A train should travel between stations toward a destination.", "breach": "The train crosses an endless wasteland and every carriage opens into a self-contained impossible environment.", "liminalOperation": "Transportation is stripped of timetable and destination; each passenger is processed through a spatial and ethical threshold.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "authority", "recognition", "care" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH035A", "CH035B", "CH035C" ], "factualRecord": "Cartoon Network’s official trailer describes a twelve-year-old trapped on a mysterious train of puzzles and perils, with each car holding a new environment. Warner records the anthology form, ‘infinite worlds,’ and four-book production history.", "evidenceLimit": "No official rating was located in the audit. The vehicle-as-jurisdiction and destination-failure language are Atlas synthesis." }, { "id": "sulphur-springs-2021-23", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Secrets of Sulphur Springs", "yearText": "2021–2023", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "A hotel should have a present, a past, and a passage between rooms that does not rewrite time.", "breach": "The closed Tremont Hotel contains a hidden passage into its own past.", "liminalOperation": "Abandoned hospitality architecture becomes a temporal threshold and an unresolved family site.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "recognition", "care", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH036A" ], "factualRecord": "Disney+ lists the 2021–2023 series as three seasons, Mystery and Fantasy, and TV-PG. Its synopsis places Griffin’s family in the old Tremont Hotel, believed haunted, where the children find a portal to the past.", "evidenceLimit": "The coupled hotel-and-time-infrastructure reading is Atlas synthesis of the official premise.", "officialClassification": { "label": "TV-PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Disney+", "sourceId": "CH036A" } }, { "id": "just-beyond-2021", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Just Beyond", "yearText": "2021", "medium": "television anthology", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A school, home, or community should remain one shared reality.", "breach": "Parallel realities, witches, ghosts, and alternate ordinary places interrupt child-scale institutions.", "liminalOperation": "The anthology calibrates threshold fear through alternate versions of familiar social spaces.", "mechanisms": [ "recognition", "routing", "authority", "care" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH037A", "CH037B" ], "factualRecord": "Disney records all eight episodes premiering on 13 October 2021 and describes an R.L. Stine-inspired supernatural anthology involving witches, aliens, ghosts, and parallel universes.", "evidenceLimit": "No official age rating or direct source for a ‘scary without gore or trauma’ production claim was located. Both claims are omitted." }, { "id": "nightbooks-2021", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Nightbooks", "yearText": "2021", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 3, "scareLabel": "unusually frightening by children’s or family-media standards", "relation": "Core", "expectedRelation": "An apartment should have ordinary rooms, a door, and a route out.", "breach": "A boy enters a witch’s apartment and cannot leave while its rooms behave incompatibly with the building.", "liminalOperation": "Residential space becomes a narrative prison whose exit depends on producing stories.", "mechanisms": [ "routing", "authority", "mediation", "care" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": true, "sourceIds": [ "CH038A", "CH038B" ], "factualRecord": "Netflix lists the 2021 film as TV-PG Fantasy and describes Alex as required to tell a scary story every night or remain trapped in a witch’s magical apartment.", "evidenceLimit": "The apartment’s incompatible interior capacity is an Atlas spatial reading of the official entrapment premise.", "officialClassification": { "label": "TV-PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Netflix", "sourceId": "CH038A" } }, { "id": "dead-end-2022", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Dead End: Paranormal Park", "yearText": "2022", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A theme park should separate entertainment, backstage labor, and public access.", "breach": "The park is simultaneously workplace, haunted attraction, battleground, and gateway.", "liminalOperation": "Artificial entertainment architecture exposes the labor and infrastructure beneath its public surface while opening portals.", "mechanisms": [ "authority", "mediation", "routing", "care" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH039A", "CH039B" ], "factualRecord": "Netflix lists two seasons, TV-Y7, and Kids; its synopsis follows two teens and a talking pug fighting demons at a haunted theme park. Media Center identifies the haunted-house workplace and a guide to an underworld multiplane.", "evidenceLimit": "The audit supports a 2022 platform date and two seasons, not a universal 2022–2023 production span. Simulacral breach is Atlas classification.", "officialClassification": { "label": "TV-Y7", "territoryOrPlatform": "Canada / Netflix", "sourceId": "CH039A" } }, { "id": "curses-2023-24", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "Curses!", "yearText": "2023–, two seasons", "medium": "television", "scareLevel": 2, "scareLabel": "deliberately spooky", "relation": "Overlap", "expectedRelation": "A family manor should contain artifacts and rooms whose boundaries remain material.", "breach": "The manor’s objects and passages produce dangerous crossings, including entrapment inside a painting.", "liminalOperation": "Gothic domestic space becomes an archive of portable thresholds and inherited obligations.", "mechanisms": [ "care", "mediation", "routing", "authority" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind", "systems" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH040A" ], "factualRecord": "Apple lists Curses! as a 2023 Kids & Family animated series with a US TV-G classification. Its premise turns the father to stone and sends the family to return stolen artifacts; a Season 2 episode record places a character inside a painting among sinister spirits.", "evidenceLimit": "The source supports a 2023 start and a second season, but not the closed 2023–2024 run. The manor-as-threshold-archive account is Atlas synthesis.", "officialClassification": { "label": "TV-G", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Apple TV", "sourceId": "CH040A" } }, { "id": "in-your-dreams-2025", "eraId": "2000-2025", "title": "In Your Dreams", "yearText": "2025", "medium": "film", "scareLevel": 1, "scareLabel": "eerie", "relation": "Neighbor", "expectedRelation": "A shared dream should transform fear into a temporary imaginative space that can be exited.", "breach": "The dream landscape remains unstable while a nightmare figure pursues the siblings.", "liminalOperation": "Dream space becomes a shared threshold in which family relation and fear alter the environment.", "mechanisms": [ "recognition", "routing", "care" ], "domains": [ "art", "mind" ], "featured": false, "sourceIds": [ "CH041A", "CH041B" ], "factualRecord": "Netflix lists the 2025 film as PG and Kids and describes siblings entering their own dream landscape to seek the Sandman. Tudum records its 14 November 2025 arrival and identifies Nightmara and the family-repair wish.", "evidenceLimit": "The environment-as-affective-topology reading is Atlas synthesis. The official description supports dream passage and fear, not a liminal-horror genre label.", "officialClassification": { "label": "PG", "territoryOrPlatform": "United States / Netflix", "sourceId": "CH041A" } } ] }