Shortly before his death in 1973, the landlords of janitor/recluse Henry Darger discovered in his room a 15,143 page manuscript entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion and hundreds of accompanying illustrations, some of them over 9 feet long and presented on both sides of lengths of butcher paper.