The Magnus Archives

By: Rusty Quill
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  • “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 long awaited continutation The Magnus Protocol launched in January 2024. Season 2 of TMP coming February 27th 2025

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  • RQ Original Feed Drop – Neon Inkwell: Broken Hearted Monsters

    RQ Original Feed Drop – Neon Inkwell: Broken Hearted Monsters
    Mar 28 2025

    This month we are featuring a feed drop for the first episode of a brand-new show on the Neon Inkwell podcast feed: Broken Hearted Monsters.


    Classic horror meets joyful, bittersweet road trip dramas in this series about grief and acceptance.


    After Dr Frankenstein is killed by an errant bolt of lightning, his estranged creature, Frank, must travel to his former home for the funeral.


    Frank, not wanting to face the bitter reality of an unresolved relationship, chooses instead to use it as an excuse to plan the ultimate road trip across America and inviting his ex-boyfriend, Dracula, along for the ride.


    You can find the next episode of Broken Hearted Monsters on the Neon Inkwell podcast feed, on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or by searching “Neon Inkwell” wherever you find podcasts.


    Introduction and outro by Shahan Hamza.


    Content Notes:

    • Grief
    • Breakups
    • Arguments/Hostility
    • Harsh Language
    • Innuendo
    • Smoking
    • Mentions of: Family Estrangement, electrocution
    • SFX: Monster Sounds


    Transcripts: https://shorturl.at/pJQV7


    Showrunner Elizabeth Moffatt

    Directed by Amani Zardoe

    Written by SC Ormond and Morgan Ormond

    Produced by April Sumner

    Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner


    Featuring

    Marqus Bobesich as Frank

    Kai Partenie as Dracula

    Ash Kelley as Angry Driver

    Philomena Sherwood as Gas Station Attendant


    Dialogue Editor – Nico Vettese

    Sound Designer - Tessa Vroom

    Mastering Editor - Catherine Rinella and Meg McKellar


    Music by Nico Vettese

    Art by Guerrilla Communications


    SFX from Soundly and previously credited artists


    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


    Join our community:

    WEBSITE: rustyquill.com

    FACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquill

    TWITTER: @therustyquill

    REDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuill

    EMAIL: mail@rustyquill.com


    Neon Inkwell is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence.


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    22 mins
  • The Magnus Protocol 35 - Terms and Conditions

    The Magnus Protocol 35 - Terms and Conditions
    Mar 27 2025

    CAT1RB4778-14082023-22052024

    mascot (incarceration) -/- retaliation (imposter)


    Incident Elements:

    · Mascots (Bonzo)

    · Murder

    · Graphic Violence

    · Scopophobia

    · Stalking

    · Mentions of: Suicide, Child Neglect,


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

    This episode is dedicated to Oliver Kaminski. 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 Alexander J Newall

    Script Edited with additional material by Jonathan Sims


    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)

    Billie Hindle as Alice Dyer

    Lowri Ann Davies as Celia Ripley

    Anusia Battersby as Gwendolyn Bouchard

    Alexander J Newall as Norris

    Kazeem Tosin Amore as Teddy Vaughn


    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


    SFX from Soundly and Freesound: kyles, deleted_user_21043670, deleted_user_2104797, poqdavid, FlorsTristi, collacot, maisonsonique, StefanoPTesta, InMotionAudio, yarashaunt, bevibeldesign, as well as previously credited artists.


    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;

    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.


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    23 mins
  • The Magnus Protocol 34 - Eliminations

    The Magnus Protocol 34 - Eliminations
    Mar 20 2025

    CATXXXX-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXX

    ERROR (Unknown Source)


    Incident Elements:

    • Death
    • Graphic Violence
    • Murder
    • Imprisonment
    • Psychological Torture
    • Suicide


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


    This episode is dedicated to Gray Anderson. 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)

    Sasha Sienna as Georgie Barker

    Shahan Hamza as Samama Khalid

    David Ault as Warden Dave

    Rebecca Ashley as Gardener

    Beth Eyre as Archivist


    Dialogue Editor – Lowri Ann Davies

    Sound Designer – Tessa Vroom

    Mastering Editor - Catherine Rinella


    Music by Sam Jones (orchestral mix by Jake Jackson)

    Art by April Sumner


    SFX from Soundly and Freesound: SpliceSound, felixblume, TILIADESIGN, magnuswalker, collacot, khenshom, Imbubec, cjolley, richwise, BrendanSound12, caileykehoe, smokevhstapes, misperpodcast, craigsmith, zoomology, ProductionNow, ReadeOnly, SoundDesignForYou, Bexhillcollege, ABouch, NachtmahrTV, launemax, joedeshon, EricsSoundschmiede, and previously credited artists


    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;

    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.


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    22 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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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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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.

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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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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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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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Um 5 stars

I give it 5 stars because it is a good podcast that you should listen to

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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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