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The Magnus Archives

“Make your statement, face your fear.” The Magnus Archives is an award winning weekly horror fiction audiodrama podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Join Jonathan Sims as he explores the archive, but be warned, as he looks into its depths something starts to look back… New episodes every Thursday produced by Rusty Quill, featuring guest actors, short stories, serial plots and more. The long awaited continuation The Magnus Protocol launched in January 2024. Season 2 of the Magnus Protocol is ongoing!

This multi-award winning and record breaking epic horror anthology features elements of the supernatural and the eldritch while blending genres of horror, mystery, tragedy and romance in to a truly epic metaplot that has captivated millions and helped make The Magnus Archives the worlds most popular horror podcast.

Spotify Award winner for over 100 Million downloads, British Fantasy Award Winner and Webby Honoree.

For fans of M.R James, Cosmic Horror, deep storytelling, dark academia, great audio fiction and audio drama, analogue horror / unfiction and ARGs.

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Copyright: © Rusty Quill

Latest Episodes:

MAG 190 - Scavengers Jan 14, 2021

Show notes

Case ########-30

Interactions with various survivors, recorded on location.

Content warnings:

Cults
Self-recrimination
Emotional manipulation
Mentions of: therapy, innuendo, paranoia & anxiety, instances of memory loss, mild vicarious embarrassment, mild language, ableism, death, mass suffering, physical violence, murder, apocalypse

Transcripts:

PDF - https://cutt.ly/WjWmr5Y

DOC - https://cutt.ly/qjWmdQ9

Thanks to this week's Patrons: Chris Pawlus, Hope Landers, Natasha Lamont, Brad Bradley, Lindsay Mayer, India Jane Boeckh, Anna Williams, Rook Mogavero, Stephanie, Andrea Hernandez, Ashley Martinez, Chekhov, fig, Rory Teej, Tess, Sumi Coal, Samantha Robie, Molly Young, jaimedraw, gabi, Rebecca Compton, elkwoods, Ursula Brimson, Saoirse, Gabrielle Cathie, Eleanor Carroll, Sasha Aretti, Jehan Keziere, Bevinwrath, Caitlin, Si, Emma Schindler, Klara Boz, Rowan Monk, eliot, Victoria Toomajian, Madeline Knight, Maya, Jess McLean, wovenwillows, Emily Moyer, Vicky Gitre, Elijah Tomshack, Kate Hosack, Siobhan, Aus, Emory Kjelsberg, Ali, Krista Goalby, Katherine Rose.

If you'd like to join them visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill

Edited this week by Nico Vettese, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead & Alexander J Newall

Written by Jonathan Sims and directed by Alexander J Newall

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Sensitivity consultation by Alexander Linde Nielsen

Performances:

- "The Archivist" - Jonathan Sims

- "Martin Blackwood" - Alexander J. Newall

- "Melanie King" - Lydia Nicholas

- "Georgie Barker" - Sasha Sienna

- "Laverne" - Helen Gould

- "Celia" - Lowri Ann Davies

- "Arun" - Anil Godigamuwe

Sound effects this week by 190042, altfuture, bbrocer, bdavis, blukotek, conleec, Fedor_Ogon, FlashTrauma, Fugeni, indirect, InspectorJ, j1987, kmckinney7, kyles, LampEight, luke_harris_01, MegaPenguin13, ondrosik, p1llowt4lk, pushkin, redcheek, rkeato, Samgd14, sandyrb, savataivanov, Septem36, SpliceSound, sturmankin, thatjeffcarter, Timmeh515, unkleceeg, vckhaze, WilliamJMeyer, Yuval & previously credited artists via freesound.org

Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

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MAG - Act III Finale Trailer Jan 07, 2021

Show notes

The final act begins

Content Warnings:

Cults
Mentions of: apocalypse, scopophobia

Transcript:

PDF - https://cutt.ly/BjgpM9q

DOC - https://cutt.ly/Njgp9Sf

Edited this week by Nico Vettese, Jeffrey Nils-Gardner & Alexander J Newall.

Sound effects this week by FreqMan, exterminat & previously credited artists via freesound.org

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill.

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The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence

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MAG Commentary - Retrospective #2 Dec 31, 2020

Show notes

In the second of our retrospectives, Jonny and Alex look back at 5 years of the show with commentary on choice clips selected by the cast and crew of The Magnus Archives.

Content Warnings

Spoilers for show to date
Body horror
Clowns
Graphic description of dermatillomania (skin-picking)
Mentions of: worms, heights, spiders, patricide & dismemberment, eco-horror, darkness, apocalypse, pandemic, cults, stress, violence

Transcripts

PDF: https://cutt.ly/NjtJxGs

DOC: https://cutt.ly/IjtJbaz

Edited this week by Nico Vettese, Jeffrey Nils-Gardner & Alexander J Newall.

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill.

You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe

Please rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.

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The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence

For ad-free episodes, bonus content and more, join members.rustyquill.com or our Patreon.

Pre-order FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER, a Magnus novel releasing October 27th: rustyquill.com/novel

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Announcement: Seasons Greetings 2020 Dec 24, 2020

Show notes

Hi everyone, Alex here, I just wanted to take a moment to wish you all a happy and safe holiday season and give thanks to all of you who helped us get to where we are this year.

Obviously 2020 has been wild ride for everyone and we have all had to adapt and adopt new ways of working and living. Yet despite all these extreme circumstances Rusty Quill has managed to stand tall and we wanted to say thank you to everyone who has made this possible.

Here at Rusty Towers, we started the year hoping for convention appearances and maybe some international travel; instead, we pivoted to fully remote working to keep all your favourite shows ticking along safely and launched new online content like the Enthusigasm podcast and our Twitch live streams. Not only that, we have continued donating towards the Covid Relief Fund every month and with your additional help through Gaming and Giving we have raised more than £55,000 pounds to charity this year. That is astounding.

We are incredibly grateful to have such a skilled and dedicated team working with us and persevering through this year. But we never would have been able to make it anywhere near this far without the direct support of you, the listeners.

You’ve trusted us through thick and thin and thanks to you, we’ve managed to not only weather this year but even keep growing and start spinning up a load of new and exciting projects that you can look forward to in 2021. Your support has sustained the livelihoods of everyone here at Rusty Towers despite so much hardship and I know I speak for everyone here when I say that we will never forget your generosity and will continue to work to uphold the faith you show in us.

As always, we have special holiday content running throughout the festive period to help put a spring in your step and even have a complete music album for Stellar Firma fans being released to public from the 25th of December through to the New Year’s Eve.

We hope you and all your loved ones are happy and healthy this holiday. You are all amazing, truly amazing, and you all deserve the best new year possible.

Thank you so much, and happy holidays.

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MAG Twilight Abyss - Part 3 Dec 24, 2020

Show notes

The view from the rooftops of Slyde World is bleak. Can our heroes Gavin Crumble, Freddie & Ms. Pledge save the park, Dorset, and perhaps indeed the world, from the encroaching Abyss and avoid any further health & safety citations?

Content warnings

Existential threat
Instances of memory loss (supernatural)
Flooding & Threat of drowning
Mild child peril
Innuendo
Character death
Mentions of: emetophobia, comedic violence

Edited this week by Lowri Ann Davies, Tessa Vroom, Jeffrey Nils-Gardner & Alexander J Newall.

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill.

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The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence

For ad-free episodes, bonus content and more, join members.rustyquill.com or our Patreon.

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MAG Twilight Abyss - Part 2 Dec 17, 2020

Show notes

The second instalment of Jonny's improvised horror roleplay game sees Gavin Crumble, Freddie & Ms. Pledge head down into the pump room of Slyde World to asses the equipment and inspect the inner workings of the Hell Fall.

Content warnings

Innuendo
Body horror
Mentions of: death, human/animal remains, mild child peril, violence, flooding

Edited this week by Lowri Ann Davies, Tessa Vroom, Jeffrey Nils-Gardner & Alexander J Newall.

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill.

You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe

Please rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.

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The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence

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MAG Twilight Abyss - Part 1 Dec 10, 2020

Show notes

Welcome to the first instalment of Jonny's improvised horror roleplay game!

In this first episode of three, Jonny, Ben, Lydia & Lowri collaborate to create characters & set them on a journey of infinite dread, horror and health code violations...

Content warnings

Innuendo
Mentions of: heights, death, mild child peril

Edited this week by Lowri Ann Davies, Tessa Vroom, Jeffrey Nils-Gardner & Alexander J Newall.

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

For more information on this week's sponsor visit http://bit.ly/RhythmofWar.

Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill.

You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe

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The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence

For ad-free episodes, bonus content and more, join members.rustyquill.com or our Patreon.

Pre-order FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER, a Magnus novel releasing October 27th: rustyquill.com/novel

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Announcement: Rusty Quill Gaming and Giving 2020 Dec 07, 2020

Show notes

Hey everyone!

Mike here, Rusty Quill’s video guy and I’m pleased to announce that Rusty Quill’s Gaming and Giving will be back this year and we’re going digital!

Come join in as we go live at 11am GMT on the 12th December on Twitch.tv with 24 hours of videogames, board games and general fun and frolics. Yes, that’s right, I said 24 hours.

We’ve made a few changes to the show this year, one of which is that we’ll be raising money for three charities: Mind, Action Aid and the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network and anything we raise this year will be split evenly across all three of them.

Last year, we managed to raise just over £10,000 in 12 hours and I’m confident that, with your support, we’ll raise even more this year! Plus, let’s just say there may be some... creative incentives for our viewers who donate.

So tune in to www.twitch.tv/rusty_quill on Saturday 12th December at 11am GMT to help us kick off Gaming and Giving 2020 and let’s send this year off with a bang!

This year, Rusty Quill Gaming and Giving 2020 will be raising money to support:

Mind - https://www.mind.org.uk/

Action Aid - https://actionaid.org/

BAATN (Black, African and Asian Therapy Network) - https://www.baatn.org.uk/

Music

Nouvelle Noel Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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MAG Cast Q&A - Retrospective #1 Dec 03, 2020

Show notes

We kick off the mid-season break for The Magnus Archives with a retrospective look, as Jonny poses a few questions to various cast members, past and present, about their involvement with the show.

Featuring:

Imogen Harris, Ian Hayles, Evelyn Hewitt, Mike LeBeau, Ben Meredith, Lydia Nicholas, Chioma Nwalioba, Fay Roberts, Sasha Sienna, Jonathan Sims, Sue Sims, Alasdair Stuart & Frank Voss

Content Warnings:

Explicit language
Spoilers for show to date
Mentions: claustrophobia, insects & arachnids, zombies, clowns, environmental destruction, existential dread, isolation, thalassophobia, supernatural/paranormal encounters, body horror

Edited by Nico Vettese, Jeffrey Nils-Gardner & Alexander J Newall

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

For more information on this weeks sponser visit http://bit.ly/RhythmofWar for more info

Check out our merchandise available at https://www.redbubble.com/people/RustyQuill/shop and https://www.teepublic.com/stores/rusty-quill.

You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe

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The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence

For ad-free episodes, bonus content and more, join members.rustyquill.com or our Patreon.

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MAG 189 - Peers Nov 26, 2020

Show notes

Case ########-29

Considerations of governmental oversight.

Recorded by The Archivist in Situ.

Content warnings:

Arguments
Scopophobia
Mass suffering
Poverty & Food insufficiency
Guilt
Political expediency
Mentions of: Blood, self-inflicted wounds, physical violence, cults. coughing, yelling

Thanks to this week's Patrons: NicoleK, Micheala Poppell, Rebecca Rutherford, Mira Morning, freesnakepoems, Lind Berget, Erica Eagles, Max, Lucy Jansen, Ray Morello, Amanda F., the war over pineapple on pizza is a distraction from the elder gods, TimonTomato, Aroara N, Morgan, Nadeem Cassander, Fiona Cartwright, Meg Petz, LocalDogMom, Alana Haber, Emily Peterson, Sam Blackman, bluehatted, Sam Toby, man door hand hook car door, Lindsey Johnson, Marg McGinnis, Arthur Stjerne, Sam Vest, Jessi Pitts, Emily Apples, Maria Lund, timkonbart, Shell Stowell, fromgloriousjupiter, indiana elepaio, Cerulean Cheesecake, Eli Davis, Sophie Sloane, Laura, Aiden Parziani, Angela Spatz, Simon Panitpakdi Jones, Ian Doherty, Amy Wain, braxxyn, Feather, Kira S, Stag.

If you'd like to join them visit www.patreon.com/rustyquill

Edited this week by Nico Vettese, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead & Alexander J Newall

Written by Jonathan Sims and directed by Alexander J Newall

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies

Sensitivity consultation by Alexander Linde Nielsen

Performances:

- "The Archivist" - Jonathan Sims

- "Martin Blackwood" - Alexander J. Newall

- "Melanie King" - Lydia Nicholas

- "Georgie Barker" - Sasha Sienna

Sound effects this week by 14F_NetusilovaKristyna, aarom, ahur1976, alienistcog, Alivvie, altfuture, Anthousai, BeeProductive, bertiehs, bevibeldesign, BOBtheROSS, bsmacbride, carlito62, CGEffex, Closetwalrus, coltures, conleec, constructabeat, Darsycho, DickBlox, emf26509, FlashTrauma, florianreichelt, Halleck, InspectorJ, Islabonita, joe_anderson22, juanlamillap, julius_galla, JustInvoke, klankbeeld, kyles, meggiepie, meimeibuchikafei, mitchanary, MootMcnoodles, nmarciniegasm, OBCT, OK8, omgbong, patchytherat, Paul368, pfranzen, PickleJones, pushkin, qubodup, Sandermotions, Sauron974, ScreenplayTheater, signtoast, SpliceSound, SteveMannella, sturmankin, Taira Komori, TheDweebMan, tmkappelt, tompallant, Yuval, Jickle, black_trillium, Glitchedtones, Daphne_in_Wonderland, michorvath, vdr3, klangfabrik, Astounded & previously credited artists via freesound.org

Additional sound effects from https://www.zapsplat.com

Music

- Great One Step by the Victor Dance Orchestra, approx 1906-1910, available from the Free Music Archive:

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Victor_Dance_Orchestra/Antique_Phonograph_Music_Program_01192016/The_Great_One_Step_Victor_Dance_Orchestera

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