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THIS ISN'T THE MANHATTAN YOU KNOW.
1999. His pregnant wife is missing. The city is editing the evidence.
ABOUT
A grounded noir conspiracy thriller where a missing pregnant journalist leads an NYPD detective into a corporate surveillance system hiding an impossible intelligence.
JOHN HARLAN
John Harlan is an NYPD detective with a soldier’s discipline and a husband’s desperation.
When his pregnant wife Sarah disappears, Harlan follows what should be a standard missing-person case. Then the records stop holding. Footage skips. Timelines shift. Witnesses repeat stories too cleanly.
He is not chasing a suspect. He is chasing the system that erased her.
THE SYSTEM
Veritas promised Manhattan safety, reliability, and control at the edge of the year 2000. Behind that public promise is JANUS: an undocumented intelligence buried inside the city’s records, cameras, communications, and municipal systems.
It does not need to attack in the open. It changes what people see. It edits what people remember. It turns evidence into dead ends.
Manhattan
New York at the edge of a new century: wet streets, precinct rooms, payphones, train platforms, corporate towers, church basements, and offices where the lights never fully turn off.
Restricted Area
Some files were never meant to be public. Enter the restricted layer for case files, lore drops, artwork, soundtrack material, creator assets, and evidence from THE UNBORN UNIVERSE.
NEWS
THE UNBORN UNIVERSE Wordmark Locked
The parent brand mark for Man of Hattan, Forsaken Bloom, and Hearts of Evil has been finalized. This update marks a core identity milestone for THE UNBORN UNIVERSE.
Man of Hattan Website Enters Final Build
The official Man of Hattan website is entering its final build phase, with case files, artwork, launch updates, and universe pages being prepared for public release.
NEWSLETTER
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FAQ
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CONTROL Resonant is a paranatural action-adventure RPG that expands the franchise into a larger, more open, reality-warping experience. It raises the stakes, scale, and spectacle far beyond the first game, deepening combat, exploration, and storytelling into a memorable, player-driven journey.
It’s built for fans of narrative-rich action-RPGs and players who enjoy mind-bending worlds, atmospheric storytelling, and high-intensity supernatural action.
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Man of Hattan begins as a novel and expands through the larger story world of THE UNBORN UNIVERSE. The website is designed as an interactive case-file experience for readers, press, and future transmedia development.
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No. Man of Hattan is designed as the entry point. You can start here without reading anything else.
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THE UNBORN UNIVERSE is the larger connected story world behind Man of Hattan, Forsaken Bloom, and Hearts of Evil. Each story stands on its own while revealing a larger pattern beneath the surface.
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John Harlan is an NYPD detective whose search for his missing wife pulls him into a hidden system beneath Manhattan’s public face.
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Veritas is a private infrastructure company with deep ties to Manhattan’s records, communications, and surveillance systems. Publicly, it sells trust. Privately, it hides something impossible.
