October 23

October 23, the number 23, and the number 1023, are significant in stories by Nathaniel J. Nelson.
==Appearances==
===Erogrendel===
*Both Nick McMann and Mark Tenant die on October 23, 2014 and 2015 respectively.
**Nick's death was the four-year anniversary of his first date with Olivia Cambridge, at which point he was twenty-three years old.
**Mark's death comes at the climax of the novel, at the Rutson Halloween Festival, during which Erogrendel appears to be at its strongest.
*Protagonist Olivia Cambridge is twenty-three years old.
*Detective Isaac Parry carries a Glock 23.
*Jonathan Trope has been a doctor for twenty-three years.
*The train Olivia and Mark take from Boston to Chicago is scheduled to take twenty-three hours.
*The Mist of Time by Sirichai Jones is 1,023 pages long.
*The Book of Sirichai is said to have been written 2300 years ago.
===Quantum Flight 888===
*Eva Van Savage, a point of view character in Quantum Flight 888 was born on October 23, 1988Nathaniel J. Nelson, Quantum Flight 888, pg.453
*Joshua Teller's acceptance letter to the University of Southern California was dated October 23, 2004.Nathaniel J. Nelson, Quantum Flight 888, pg.222
*Maryanne Henry Poore's headstone is dated October 23, 2002.Nathaniel J. Nelson, Quantum Flight 888, pg.7
*Row #23 of the plane is referenced.
===I Am Halloween===
In I Am Halloween, the titular being refers to October twenty-third as "My Day," and describes it as "A day of great power, when the walls between the physical and the supernatural grow thin and pliable." He goes on to claim that "Evil was released into the world on the twenty-third of October," and that "An insane, power-hungry beast managed to doom her entire species on that day." Prior to the settling of humans, the narrator and his supernatural friends would experience a rush of drug-like euphoria on this day every year. Late in the story, the narrator comes to believe that the supernatural nature of the day has shifted to October 31, due to the humans celebrating it as a supernatural-based holiday.Nathaniel J. Nelson, I Am Halloween
===The Number Four===
*Brenna travels back in time to 1923.
===Seventh Circle===
*Ignition
**At the start of the series, protagonist Vinny Howell is twenty-three years old.
==References==
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