1922

1922 is a historical date used in the guide as a precise temporal anchor rather than as a separately narrated setting. Its clearest appearance identifies a supernatural-fantasy work set in New York City in 1922, giving the year a concrete relationship to place, genre, and historical atmosphere. Elsewhere, the guide places works from science fiction, horror, and superhero fiction in the same broad catalog, but the supplied evidence does not assign those works to 1922 or describe events occurring during that year.

A Date Attached to Place and Genre

1922 appears most specifically in the entry for Rebecca Rand Kirshner’s The War Between the State, classified as supernatural fantasy and associated with New York City. The compact bibliographic notation joins three elements—genre, author and title, and the year-place combination—so that 1922 operates as contextual information for the work rather than as a character, event, or plot episode. The evidence gives no further account of the city, its inhabitants, or the action taking place there.

Position in the Reading Guide

The year occurs within a guide whose classification system distinguishes several kinds of genre writing. The surrounding entries include Leigh Brackett’s science-fiction works The Woman From Altair and A World Is Born, Ray Bradbury and Henry Hesse’s science-fiction story The Pendulum, and Ray Bradbury’s science-fiction entry All Summer In A Day. The same catalog also includes Max Brooks’s horror work World War Z, Stephen Donaldson’s science-fiction story Animal Lover, and Stephen King’s horror collection Different Seasons. These neighboring classifications show the breadth of the guide, but they do not establish that any of those works is set in 1922.

Historical and Formal Significance

As used here, 1922 marks the point where an otherwise compressed catalog record opens onto historical specificity. Most entries communicate through genre codes, ratings, author names, titles, and availability markers; the New York City reference adds a time-and-place coordinate that distinguishes The War Between the State from a purely genre-based listing. The date consequently suggests a historical frame for supernatural fantasy while leaving the nature of that frame unstated.

Limits of the Evidence

The supplied material does not describe 1922 as a war, death, meeting, separation, dream, flashback, or other narrative event. It provides no chronology within the work, no narrator, no characters’ actions, and no consequences attached to the year itself. It also does not indicate that 1922 recurs across the listed science-fiction, horror, or superhero entries. Any fuller interpretation of the year’s social conditions, symbolism, or plot function would therefore go beyond the evidence available in the guide.