The Magnus Archives

By: Rusty Quill
  • Summary

  • “Make your statement, face your fear.” A weekly horror fiction 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 Magnus Protocol launches in January 2024.

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Episodes
  • The Magnus Protocol - Season 1 Epilogue [+Announcements]
    Sep 26 2024

    Incident Elements:

    • Screaming
    • Harsh Language

    Transcripts available at https://rustyquill.com/transcripts/the-magnus-protocol/

    You can find a complete list of our Kickstarter backers https://rustyquill.com/the-magnus-protocol-supporter-wall/

    Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall

    Directed by Alexander J Newall

    Written by Jonathan Sims

    Script Edited with additional material by Alexander J Newall

    Executive Producers April Sumner, Alexander J Newall, Jonathan Sims, Dani McDonough, Linn Ci, and Samantha F.G. Hamilton

    Associate Producers Jordan L. Hawk, Taylor Michaels, Nicole Perlman, Cetius d’Raven, and Megan Nice

    Produced by April Sumner

    Featuring (in order of appearance)

    Anusia Battersby as Gwendolyn Bouchard

    Billie Hindle as Alice Dyer

    Shahan Hamza as Samama Khalid

    Dialogue Editor – Nico Vettese

    Sound Designer – Meg McKellar

    Mastering Editor - Catherine Rinella

    Music by Sam Jones (orchestral mix by Jake Jackson)

    Art by April Sumner

    Support us on Patreon at https://patreon.com/rustyquill

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

    Support Rusty Quill by purchasing from our Affiliates;

    Phantom Peak – UK immersive experience – 15% discount with this link

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    Join our community:

    WEBSITE: rustyquill.com

    FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill

    X: @therustyquill

    EMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com

    The Magnus Protocol is a derivative product of the Magnus Archives, created by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence.


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    12 mins
  • RQ Network Feed Drop – The Gentleman From Hell: |S1| Ep.1
    Sep 16 2024

    This month we are featuring a feed drop of an amazing new podcast that has just launched on the RQ Network The Gentleman From Hell.

    The Gentleman From Hell is a brand new, chilling, horror audio drama. From the brilliant creators behind Maeltopia and The Sleep Wake Cycle.

    In The Gentleman from Hell an entire town is gone. Without a trace. No signs, no warnings. Just silence. This is the story of Cold Sparrow.

    Twenty-four years ago, the peaceful town of Cold Sparrow became the center of one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in modern history. Every resident vanished. Among them, the enigmatic billionaire Benjamin Veers, whose strange ways made him an icon of intrigue. The town, once forgotten, now infamous. The questions? Endless. The answers? Nonexistent.

    For over two decades, investigators have been left baffled—cults, kidnappings, disappearances—none have led them closer to the truth. But now, three celebrated private investigators—famous for bringing down one of the most dangerous cults in history—have been called upon to tackle this mystery. Known for taking on the cases no one else could solve, they’re determined to uncover what really happened in Cold Sparrow.

    Yet, the deeper they dig, the darker the whispers become. Rumors swirl of something far more sinister than anyone ever imagined. Could the mystery of Cold Sparrow be tied to forces that reach far beyond our world? Could it be linked to something... infernal?

    Some mysteries, once uncovered, may be better left untouched.

    Cold Sparrow: A town that disappeared… but something still lingers in the shadows.

    The investigation begins… now."

    Introduction and outro by Anusia Battersby. Listen to The Gentleman From Hell on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or listen wherever you get your podcasts, or to learn more about The Gentleman From Hell check out its official website.

    Credits:

    Written by Mark Anzalone

    Edited by Walker Kornfeld

    Sound mastering by Steven J. Anzalone

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    Mace voiced by Steven Zivic

    Leon voiced by Sam Stark

    Phyllis voiced by Aubrey Akers

    Benjamin Veers voiced by Mark Anzalone

    Edward Veers voiced by Mark Anzalone

    Charlie Prist voiced by Mark Anzalone

    --

    Intro music by Steven Anzalone

    Music and Sound effects are licensed from third party providers including Envato, Epidemic Sound, Artlist, Soundstripe, Melody Loops, Pond 5, Soundcrate, Music Vine, Youtube, Melodie, Slipstream, and Storyblocks


    Content warnings: Disappearances, Parental death, Chanting, Existential crisis

    Mentions of: Mass kidnapping,

    SFX : Static, Beeping, Animal sounds


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    30 mins
  • The Magnus Protocol 30 - Dead End Job
    Sep 12 2024

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    Transmutation (human) -/- Isolation (urban)


    Incident Elements:

    • Entrapment
    • Compelling (supernatural)
    • Manipulation


    Transcripts available at https://rustyquill.com/transcripts/the-magnus-protocol/


    You can find a complete list of our Kickstarter backers https://rustyquill.com/the-magnus-protocol-supporter-wall/


    Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall

    Directed by Alexander J Newall

    Written by Jonathan Sims

    Script Edited with additional material by Alexander J Newall

    Executive Producers April Sumner, Alexander J Newall, Jonathan Sims, Dani McDonough, Linn Ci, and Samantha F.G. Hamilton

    Associate Producers Jordan L. Hawk, Taylor Michaels, Nicole Perlman, Cetius d’Raven, and Megan Nice

    Produced by April Sumner

    Featuring (in order of appearance)

    Lowri Ann Davies as Celia Ripley

    Shahan Hamza as Samama Khalid

    Billie Hindle as Alice Dyer

    Kai Partenie as Ticket Officer

    Ryan Hopevere-Anderson as Colin Becher

    Sarah Lambie as Lena Kelley

    Anusia Battersby as Gwendolyn Bouchard

    Pip Gladwin as Taxi Driver

    Robin Hellier as Custodian

    Ian Hayles as Trevor Herbert MP

    Beth Eyre as Archivist


    Dialogue Editor – Nico Vettese & Lowri Ann Davies

    Sound Designer – Tessa Vroom

    Mastering Editor - Catherine Rinella


    Music by Sam Jones (orchestral mix by Jake Jackson)

    Art by April Sumner


    Support us on Patreon at https://patreon.com/rustyquill


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


    Support Rusty Quill by purchasing from our Affiliates;

    Phantom Peak – UK immersive experience – 15% discount with this link

    DriveThruRPG – DriveThruRPG.com


    Join our community:

    WEBSITE: rustyquill.com

    FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill

    X: @therustyquill

    EMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com

    The Magnus Protocol is a derivative product of the Magnus Archives, created by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence.


    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    34 mins

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Something for Everyone

Listening will add to the list of your worst nightmares. LGBTQ+ inclusive with diverse casting

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Great Podcast, audible sucks at it though

Okay so first things first:

This podcast is incredible. The Magnus Archives is a horror fiction podcast of unparalleled story, narration, ambience, and just all around tremendously well done. The characters are incredible, the plot is sublime, and the voice acting is too notch in all but 1 or 2 places where it's just slightly (and I mean very very slightly) hammy. Overall this podcast is one of my favorite fiction stories that there are.

HOWEVER:

Audible is a bad platform to listen to it on. Audible has an appalling habit of treating podcasts as constant livestreams, where "next" episode means "latest" episode, and so trying to listen to this series in order means you will have to manually select each new episode yourself, or risk being sent to the very last episode that there is when each episode ends.

You will also have to deal with your Audible App freezing and glitching out when you try and swap from a podcast episode to an actual audiobook, or vice vursa, because Audible treats them differently. If you try and swap back and forth, the app with slow down so much and eventually freeze altogether, and the only way I have found to fix the issue is to turn your phone to Airplane Mode just to stop it from dropping into a permanent loading lock.

Downloading each canonical episode seems to help a little, but even then: if you want to have a playlist of Magnus Archives episodes in order, you'll have to play around with turning airplane mode on and off to "reset" your audible apps loading. This app is a terrible way to listen to them, don't do it unless you are willing to open your phone every 20-30 minutes to manually select the next episode, because:

YOUR PHONE WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY GO TO THE NEXT EPISODE, EVER, AT ALL, IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, AT ALL, EVER, when using audible.

Now, all that being said, this podcast is still absolutely a 10 out of 10 podcast if you love horror, fiction, complete stories, or just good writing and voice acting in general.

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I could be listening to Magnus Archives

I’ve been listening to audiobooks/podcasts every day for six years while at work and on drives (9+ hours a day) and I’ve never relistened to something as much as this
the writing, ambience, and performance are some of the best I’ve herd

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Depth rarely seen in other horror podcasts.

Amazing, intense, exhilarating. I stumbled into this from a clip on tiktok from episode 93, I am so happy to have found such an intriguing depth of story and horror. From the first episode completely pulling me in, to when the story starts to take on a life of its own. Truly fascinating and thrilling.

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the best story podcast I've ever listened to

It starts out a bit slow, but picks up quickly. I would recommend this to anyone who has the time.

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Rapturing!

I got into this to bond with my niece, and stayed for the storytelling and suspense. The story is well thought out, the acting is great, and it’s actually impressively somewhat unpredictable (not entirely, but better than most). I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that as a 31-year-old who lives alone, I didn’t check my locks more than usual some nights while being unappreciative of my noisy house.

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wait, what's going on?

this story sadly is one of the more distracting episodes. this one requires the listener to have their undivided attention I can't recall what just happened other than this person is dreaming of an alternate London or something.
since I drive a lot more these days I've been currently listening to these archives and some have grabbed my attention more than others some have given me a WTF what was going on?
the story is probably more for those who read dreams and stuff.

my only critique would be that if you're going to talk about something that's obscure having some audio cues or something to help fill in the imagination or something would probably help out more for those of us who are not strong

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Life changing

This is single-handedly, one of the best podcast with storytelling that I’ve ever listen to.
When I say that, I’ve been fully satisfied with this podcast, I can’t even begin to tell you how satisfied and wonderful the storytelling and the characters are. It leaves you on just the edge at the very end, but you know exactly what happened.

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Best ever

I have never in my life listened to a better written and executed podcast. It has an amazing plot and characters. I got so attached to each and every one of them. I’ve been recommending this to everyone I know. It is phenomenal!

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one jarring note

This was a really great short story, until they wrote about female victims. no way would a woman go out drinking alone and the walk into an ally where someone hid in shadows n gestured-let alone more than men. they wouldn't have gone after a group either.

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