The Holloway Manor guide

How to start Holloway Manor

Install The Holloway Manor DLC, then launch its separate adventure from the game's main menu. It is self-contained, so you can play it before or after finishing the campaign. Completing it makes its revolver and ammunition available in main-game runs.

If the entry is missing, confirm the DLC is installed and enabled for the same platform account that owns the base game.

Holloway Manor route at a glance

1. Start The Holloway Manor from its separate main-menu entry and speak to Ezra Holloway.
2. Enter the manor, reach the Living Room and investigate the Secret Passage.
3. Use the portrait route to enter the Museum and fetch the Medallion.
4. Return the Medallion to Ezra, then recover the family heirlooms requested by the Museum route.
5. Return the Cane, Mirror and Pistol to their Museum displays as the manor opens new paths.
6. Pursue Ezra through the lower manor, cave and shrine route.
7. Defeat the Shadow to stop the curse and finish the side mission.

The manor behaves like a puzzle box: returning an heirloom changes what can be reached next. When a corridor appears exhausted, revisit the Museum displays and the portrait route rather than searching the same locked door for a key.

Seance Table and candle puzzle

The solution comes from the date of death recorded in the Holloway family notes. Read the biography, portrait and journal evidence in your Investigation space, identify the relevant family member's death date, then represent that date on the Seance Table.

1. Find the portrait of Catherine Holloway.
2. Collect all four key items: Small, Medium, Large and Enormous Occult Candle.
3. Open the Investigation space and look for the entry that states when she died; the puzzle is asking for that date, not a symbol sequence from another room.
4. Put Catherine's portrait in the center and place the four differently sized candles on the table positions represented by the death-date evidence. The table reacts when all five items are in valid positions.

If the table does not accept the arrangement, the usual blocker is missing evidence rather than a randomized solution. Search the Library, Nursery, Servants' Quarters and family portrait rooms before trying again.

Holloway Manor safe code: 1890

The decorated four-wheel safe encountered on the Living Room route opens with 1890. Set the wheels left to right to 1–8–9–0, then use Unlock. Launch-build footage shows shotgun ammo inside; this is an optional supply safe rather than the main DLC progression gate.

Video: Seance Table and safe

The Seance Table segment starts at 39:00; the successful 1890 safe input starts at 45:04. The video is embedded rather than copied or re-hosted.

Museum heirlooms

The objective chain names three display items: the Cane, Mirror and Pistol. Return each item to the matching Museum display. The mission updates after one, two and three heirlooms, so check the objective text after every return.

The portrait passage is the main connection between the manor and Museum route. If an item seems to lead nowhere, return through the portrait and inspect the newly completed display before continuing.

Rewards for completing the DLC

• Bucking Bronco revolver
• Kane's Hefty Barrel attachment
• Kane's Wrapped Grip attachment
• Revolver ammunition recipe

These are gameplay rewards, unlike the cosmetic/resource items in the Arkham Field Kit. For price and edition comparisons, see the DLC guide.

How long does Holloway Manor take?

Frogwares describes it as a roughly two-hour side mission. Launch playthrough reports commonly fall around 90 minutes to two hours, depending on how long you spend searching the manor and solving the optional ritual investigation.

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