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 Lost Tapes, Tape 1 - Are You Scared?
    Nov 17 2024


    Ryan and Shane receive a mysterious envelope containing 3 tapes. In this episode, they listen to the first tape and meet Tommy and Adam- whose reality begins to fray at the seams. Featuring Jonathan Sims and Alexander J. Newall.


    Alexander J Newall and Jonathan Sims, creators of The Magnus Archives and The Magnus Protocol, have leant their voices to Watcher Entertainment to bring you 3 special episodes of their series Are You Scared?


    Content Notes:

    - Strong Language

    - Hallucinations/Altered Reality / Unreality

    - Paranoia

    - Graphic Violance

    - Infestation

    - Vehicle Accidents (air and automobile)

    - Drugging

    - Mass Death

    - SFX: Bugs, explosions


    The video version of this episode is available now on the Watcher Entertainment YouTube, WatcherTV.com, or on the WatcherTV app


    Are You Scared is created by Ryan Bergara

    Story Written by Garrett Werner

    Directed by Katie LeBlanc

    Produced by Kat Hartman

    Executive Producers Ryan Bergara, Shane Madej, and Steven Lim


    Hosted by Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej

    Featuring Alexander J Newall as 'Adam' and Jonathan Sims as 'Tommy'

    Additional Voices by Charlie Clay


    Watcher Entertainment Production Staff

    Assistant Creative Director Charlie Clay

    Editing and Motion Graphics by Charlie Clay

    Director of Photography Mark Celestino

    Camera Operator Annie Jeong

    Sound Mixer Brendon Ryu

    Illustrators Rafael Mejia & Mollie Ong

    Production Coordinators Carter Lau & Violet Rawlings

    Production Assistant (Social Media Intern) Emily Graham

    Post Production Supervisor Sam Young

    DIT/Assistant Editors Andrew Ilnyckyj & Frank Parker

    Head of Development Katie LeBlanc

    Head of Production Lizzie Lockard

    Head of Post Production Sam Young

    With Special Thanks to the Team at Rusty Quill (thats us!)


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    22 mins
  • RQ Network Feed Drop – Planet Arcana: Episode 1 – Welcome to Riskotheque
    Nov 11 2024

    We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Planet Arcana. Created by the talented J Strautman and B Marsollier.

    Planet Arcana is a science fantasy audio fiction, presented by two game runners, and built through a D&D 5e framework. The show will appeal to fans of actual play and audio drama alike.

    The world of Planet Arcana is rife with mystery, intrigue and crime and no answer is ever straightforward. What really happened at the Riskotheque casino? Who’s been stealing Android organs? And why?

    4000 years after a calamity known as the Big Oops, the world of Planet Arcana is a place of humans and androids, neon metropolises, sunken cities, phenomenal parties, paranormal oddities, and a pantheon of Major Arcana.


    An influencer, a drug dealer, and a cowboy walk into a casino, then into a vast mystery of science, magic, and Tarot-inspired gods. Three Fools on a simple quest to find a key, and open a box.

    Introduction and outro by Lowri Ann Davies. Listen to Planet Arcana on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Planet Arcana on its official website.

    If you want to support planet arcana and its creators, until November 15th, at 10 PM PST head to www.rustyquill.com/foolserrand

    For ad-free and early access episodes and exclusive bonus content you can join their Patreon at Patreon.com/planetarcana

    Credits:

    Co-Creators & DMs J Strautman and B Marsollier

    Performed By J Strautman, B Marsollier, Peter Marsollier, Shaun Oldfield, and Skye Wallace


    Editing, original music, and sound design by J Strautman

    Sound effects from Nikko Hunt's Cinematic Sound Pack [https://nikkohunt.gumroad.com/l/dpclP] used, under CC by 4.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode]. Pitch modified lower from the original

    Content warnings: swearing, violence, drug use.


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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • Rusty Fears 6 - Hollow by Sam Lazure
    Nov 7 2024

    'Hollow' is written by Sam Lazure, inspired by the prompt “birds”, and is performed by Sarah Lambie.


    Once all six short horror stories have been released, there will be a public poll for listeners to vote for their favourite. The overall winner will get the opportunity to write a case that will be featured in The Magnus Protocol, so be sure to listen to every story and keep an eye out for the voting form in a few weeks’ time.


    Content Notes

    -Ornithophobia

    -Cartilogenophobia

    -Body Horror

    -Disease


    Directed by April Sumner

    Produced by April Sumner and Nico Vettese


    Edited, Music and SFX by Nico Vettese

    Additional AFX by Meg McKellar

    Music by Nico Vettese

    Mastering by Catherine Rinella


    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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creepy and compelling

smart main characters, grumpy narrators... amazing. the ads are a bit much though. glad I stuck with it though as it's really good.

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a new mythos and a must listen

an absolute joy of a horror anthology. a new horror mythos for a new age.

can not recommend enough!

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The Best Podcast Ever

This is the most unique and well written and produced podcast I have ever come across

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A-MAZ-ING!!!!!!!!!!

The Magnus Archives sure is a podcast like no other. If you’re looking for a urban legends style, uncanny valley, and sometimes down right terrifying podcast to listen to I recommend this so much. Each character has been a strong backstory and cool persona even to the point where you love the people you supposed to detest. Jonathan Sims is a genius !!!!

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Characters

The storytelling and how it all connects and the horror of it is cool and scary

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Can't wait to start all of it again!

Johnny Sims is an absolute maestro in writing this interwoven piece of horror genius. I loved every single episode, loved the metaplot-which was so wonderfully clever - and really fell in with the characters, both prptagonists and antagonists alike. If you like intelligent, big mythos horror, with a wonderfully diverse cast of audio drama superstars, this is absolutely for you. I laughed, I cried, I was heartbroken, I had nightmares. It's perfect. I need to listen to all five series again right now.

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fantastic

brilliant mysterious stories, performed masterfully.

the greatest achievement is in the atmosphere created, through eerie, detailed tales and sublimely creepy and skilled sound design, artisanally wrought for maximum disquiet and intrigue.

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A masterpiece

Absolutely beautiful. Amazing acting, awesome story, sound effects and more! Everything was perfect! I'm normally not a podcast person, (I get bored easily or can't focus) but I didn't want to stop listening to this one.

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absolute masterpiece

this podcast is so damn close to my heart love you Jon and Martin! (~ ̄³ ̄)~

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Addictive and Exciting!

This podcast is fantastically awesome and uniquely played! Well done really! I just finished it and I will definitely listen to it over and over again! =))

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