The Mortuary Collection (2019) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

The Boggy Bay Tooth Fairy is Charlotte Gibbons, an escaped patient from the local asylum known for murdering and cannibalizing children while keeping their deciduous teeth as trinkets. In The Mortuary Collection, she escapes the asylum, kills the real babysitter Sam, and disguises herself as Sam to infiltrate the Raven's End Mortuary, where she believes her latest victim, Logan Kubler, is being stored. Her disguise unravels when Logan's parents arrive home and see the real Sam's corpse, exposing her true identity.

Foreshadowing: Charlotte's unusual interest in the child-sized coffin at the start of her visit hints that her motives go far beyond a job interview.

• charlotte gibbons
• boggy bay tooth fairy
• escaped patient
• child murderer
• asylum escape

Charlotte comes to the Raven's End Mortuary in The Mortuary Collection not for a job interview but to retrieve Logan's body and take the baby tooth she never had the chance to collect from him. Posing as Sam, she answers the Help Wanted sign as a ruse, knowing that Montgomery recently performed a funeral for a child-sized coffin. She uses the conversation about his past stories as a delay tactic while waiting to gain access to the subbasement where Logan's remains are stored.

Foreshadowing: Charlotte's immediate curiosity about the child-sized coffin at the start of the interview foreshadows her true purpose in visiting the mortuary.

• charlotte's plan
• mortuary infiltration
• logan kubler
• tooth retrieval
• job interview ruse

Montgomery laughs because he bleeds embalming fluid instead of blood, revealing that he is no longer fully human after decades as the mortuary's cursed caretaker. In The Mortuary Collection, his body has been sustained by the building's supernatural force, so Charlotte's stab wound cannot truly harm him. Her attack simply triggers the curse's transfer, and he calmly tells her that the job is now hers.

Foreshadowing: Montgomery's pale, corpse-like demeanor and his solitary existence tending to the dead hint he is no longer a normal man.

• montgomery dark
• embalming fluid
• curse transfer
• stabbing
• supernatural body

Dr. Harold Kubler appears as the campus doctor who diagnoses Jake's anomalous pregnancy in the 1960s tale and as the doctor who suggests Wendell overdose his wife in the 1970s. In The Mortuary Collection's framing narrative, he is also Logan Kubler's father, making him a recurring figure whose actions shape multiple decades of Raven's End's dark history. His casual cruelty toward his patients in the earlier tales foreshadows his ultimate failure to protect his own son from Charlotte.

Foreshadowing: Dr. Kubler's willingness to casually suggest mercy killings and ignore patient suffering in earlier stories hints at the moral rot that culminates in his son's murder.

• dr kubler
• harold kubler
• recurring character
• kubler family
• raven's end history

In The Mortuary Collection, Montgomery explains that he was never able to leave the mortuary, having been cursed to serve as its caretaker for several decades. The supernatural force preventing his exit is bound to the building itself, and the curse attaches to whoever holds the role of mortician until someone else takes their place. This is why Montgomery is so eager to transfer the position to Charlotte once she attacks him, knowing it is the only way he can be freed.

Foreshadowing: Montgomery's pale, listless appearance and his confession that he cannot leave Raven's End set up the revelation of the building's supernatural hold.

• mortuary curse
• supernatural binding
• trapped caretaker
• raven's end
• montgomery's imprisonment

Charlotte becomes the new mortician because the curse that bound Montgomery to the building transfers to her after he sews her body back together and replaces her blood with embalming fluid. In The Mortuary Collection, the charred spirits of her child victims tear her apart as retribution, but instead of dying she is resurrected into the role of caretaker. Montgomery is finally freed from his decades-long imprisonment, allowing him to step outside for the first time in years.

Foreshadowing: Montgomery's comment that the job is now hers immediately after being stabbed foreshadows the formal curse transfer.

• charlotte as mortician
• curse transfer
• embalming fluid
• child spirits
• supernatural binding

After being freed from the curse in The Mortuary Collection, Montgomery steps outside into the sunlight for the first time in decades and immediately ages rapidly before exploding into dust. This suggests that his existence was sustained only by the mortuary's supernatural force, and once removed from its protection his body can no longer hold together. His disintegration underscores the horror of the curse: those bound to it cannot truly live, and those released cannot truly survive outside it.

Foreshadowing: Montgomery's corpse-pale skin and embalming-fluid blood hinted that his body was no longer truly mortal.

• montgomery's death
• sunlight
• aging
• disintegration
• curse release

The child in the small coffin is Logan Kubler, the son of Dr. Harold Kubler and Debra, whom Charlotte murdered during her babysitting attack. In The Mortuary Collection, Charlotte cooked Logan's remains in the oven and removed one of his baby teeth as a keepsake before fleeing. Montgomery recently performed the funeral for his body, which is why Charlotte poses as Sam to come to the mortuary and retrieve him.

Foreshadowing: Charlotte's instant interest in the small coffin during the opening scene foreshadows that she has come specifically for the child inside.

• logan kubler
• child coffin
• kubler family
• dr kubler's son
• charlotte's victim

The final scene of The Mortuary Collection shows Charlotte reanimated as the new mortician greeting Bill, the paperboy seen earlier in the film, with the chilling line that she is about to start making dinner. This implies that the cycle of horror in Raven's End will continue indefinitely, with Charlotte now targeting new victims in the same town. The ending reinforces the film's bleak message that evil perpetuates itself when no one can escape its consequences.

Foreshadowing: Bill's earlier appearance as the paperboy makes him a fitting stand-in for the ordinary townspeople who will become Charlotte's future victims.

• bill the paperboy
• ending
• cycle of horror
• charlotte's reign
• perpetuating evil

Charlotte's belief that bad people win stems from her long history as the Boggy Bay Tooth Fairy, who murdered children for years without consequence before being institutionalized. Her worldview is reinforced when she successfully kills Logan and the real Sam during her babysitting attack, escaping the scene without immediate punishment. In The Mortuary Collection, she is so convinced of her invincibility that she dismisses Montgomery's stories about moral comeuppance until her own victims return to claim retribution.

Foreshadowing: Charlotte's calm reaction to killing the man with the head wound reveals her deep-seated belief that violence always goes unpunished.

• charlotte gibbons
• bad people win
• worldview
• child victims
• moral comeuppance

The real Sam is the man with the head wound whom Charlotte encounters while babysitting Logan Kubler, and whose body is later identified by Logan's parents as the babysitter she had killed and replaced. His reanimated or wandering corpse adds to the chaos in the Kubler home and ultimately exposes Charlotte when the parents recognize him. Charlotte's decision to kill him a second time by throwing him down the stairs and dropping a television on his head reveals her willingness to destroy anyone who threatens her disguise.

Foreshadowing: The news bulletin about an escaped asylum patient that Sam misses while watching television foreshadows the violent intruder she will face later that night.

• real sam
• head wound
• corpse
• babysitter
• kubler house

Charlotte kills Logan Kubler by cooking him in the oven, charring his remains after she is interrupted mid-babysitting by the real Sam's wandering corpse. In The Mortuary Collection, she uses her buck knife to remove one of Logan's baby teeth as a keepsake, consistent with her ritual as the Boggy Bay Tooth Fairy. The charred body is later discovered by Logan's parents in the oven, and they scream in horror at the sight of what Charlotte has done.

Foreshadowing: Charlotte carrying a buck knife throughout the babysitting scene foreshadows her plan to collect one of Logan's baby teeth as a trinket.

• logan's death
• oven
• buck knife
• charred remains
• babysitting attack

Each of the three stories Montgomery tells follows the same moral pattern: characters who commit selfish or cruel acts, including Emma's theft, Jake's deception, and Wendell's attempted mercy killing, are punished with grotesque, ironic deaths. In The Mortuary Collection, Charlotte dismisses this theme as predictable, calling the stories too formulaic because they always punish sinners. Ironically, she meets the same fate as the sinners in the tales when her own victims return to claim retribution, proving Montgomery's thesis about actions and repercussions.

Foreshadowing: Montgomery's repeated emphasis on how stories remind people that actions have consequences foreshadows Charlotte's eventual downfall.

• moral theme
• sin and punishment
• story pattern
• ironic deaths
• narrative consequences

Charlotte collects the deciduous teeth of her child victims as ritualistic keepsakes or trinkets, a behavior tied to her nickname, the Boggy Bay Tooth Fairy. In The Mortuary Collection, this practice marks her as a specific type of child murderer and explains why she insists on retrieving the tooth she did not collect from Logan's body. The teeth also serve a supernatural purpose, as her victims' spirits later use them to reclaim their identities when they tear her apart in the mortuary library.

Foreshadowing: Charlotte's habit of carrying a buck knife and her immediate interest in Logan's remains hint at her ritualistic tooth-collecting compulsion.

• baby teeth
• tooth fairy
• ritual
• deciduous teeth
• charlotte gibbons