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The Magnus Archives

The Magnus Archives

By: Rusty Quill
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“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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  • MAG 0.1 The Magnus Archives – Seed

    MAG 0.1 The Magnus Archives – Seed
    18 Mar 2016

    “Make your statement, face your fear.”

    The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction podcast released every Thursday featuring guest actors, short stories, serial plots and more.

    Coming March 24th 2016.

    The Magnus Archives is an original program produced by Rusty Quill and is written and narrated by Jonathan Sims. Available from iTunes and all good podcast providers.


    Find ad-free episodes and bonus content on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rustyquill


    Check out our merchandise available in our official stores:

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    You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice.


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


    Join our community:


    WEBSITE: rustyquill.com

    FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill

    TWITTER: @therustyquill

    THREADS: @rustyquilluk

    INSTAGRAM: @rustyquilluk

    EMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com


    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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  • MAG 0.2 Pre-Launch Trailer

    MAG 0.2 Pre-Launch Trailer
    19 Mar 2016

    “Make your statement, face your fear.”

    Here is the pre-launch trailer for The Magnus Archives, wherein our new Archivist makes his first attempt to record a transcript.

    The Magnus Archives is 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 the new head archivist Jonathan Sims every Thursday as he explores the much-neglected collection of statements and investigations, digitising them and converting them to audio along with supplementary investigations by his team.

    New episodes every Thursday featuring guest actors, short stories, serial plots and more.

    Coming March 24th 2016.

    The Magnus Archives is an original program produced by Rusty Quill and is written and narrated by Jonathan Sims. Available from iTunes and all good podcast providers.


    Find ad-free episodes and bonus content on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rustyquill


    Check out our merchandise available in our official stores:

    • Redbubble
    • Teepublic
    • Crowdmade


    You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice.


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


    Join our community:


    WEBSITE: rustyquill.com

    FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill

    TWITTER: @therustyquill

    THREADS: @rustyquilluk

    INSTAGRAM: @rustyquilluk

    EMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com


    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

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    2 mins
  • MAG 0.3 Launch Trailer

    MAG 0.3 Launch Trailer
    20 Mar 2016

    “Make your statement, face your fear.”

    The Magnus Archives are… OPEN.

    Come listen to our 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 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.

    Be sure to subscribe to us on your podcast software of choice to get every episode automatically downloaded straight to your device. It’s more convenient for you and really helps us out.

    Like what you’re hearing? Let us know!


    Find ad-free episodes and bonus content on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rustyquill


    Check out our merchandise available in our official stores:

    • Redbubble
    • Teepublic
    • Crowdmade


    You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice.


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


    Join our community:


    WEBSITE: rustyquill.com

    FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill

    TWITTER: @therustyquill

    THREADS: @rustyquilluk

    INSTAGRAM: @rustyquilluk

    EMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com


    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

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Sometimes I shrugged and looked around to convince myself that nothing had suddenly appeared behind my back, The speakers were really good too and each individual story had their own twist to it. I had a really good time listening to this!

Nice horror storys

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Ich bin das erste Mal vor ein paar Jahren drauf gekommen, ironischerweise um etwas in meinen Nachtdiensten in der Klinik zum einschlafen zu hören. Ich würde das nicht jedem empfehlen, ein paar meiner Freunde können das nicht einmal am hellen Tag hören.
Aber ganz unabhängig vom tatsächlichen Gruselfaktor gelingt Rusty Quill mit dieser Serie die Kombination aus großartigen Ideen, sowohl bei den Variablen Kurzgeschichten, die in jeder Folge Inahlt sind, als auch der Metaplot, dem es doch tatsächlich gelingt alle tausend Fäden am Ende wieder zusammen zu führen.
Ich habe selten erlebt, daß ich etwas so oft noch einmal hören kann und so viele Details, Anspielungen und Parallelen entdecke.
Das ist mit Abstand mein liebster Podcast seit über fünf Jahren.
Big Fan.

So. Ein. Geiler. PLOT!

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jonathan sims' brilliance and knack for horror can't be beat by anyone , ever ! in addition to him playing the protagonist , all of the voice actors have done SUCH an incredible job making it feel like you're right there with them , bantering with each other ! i'm on my 3rd listen and can NOT get enough of the archives crew . that being said , i'm REALLY excited for The Magnus Protocol (aka scrotocol) and urge everyone to check out the news from Rusty Quill on it !

pure perfection

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I'm not usually a horror fan because most horror stories just don't seem to faze me much. I thought it'd be similar with this one when my friend suggested it on our roadtrip and I guess it kind of was in the beginning but then I got hooked on the overall plot. The stories in each episode are quite intriguing and fun to listen to, some even made me shiver a bit I've got to admit.
The voice actors are fantastic, I really enjoy listening to them and the way they portray their characters and through that their story. At first, I might not really have expected to listen to much of this podcast after our roadtrip was over but now I've reached season 4 and it's distracting me from studying.

Love it.

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