“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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Transformation (dysmorphic) -/-doppleganger (infection)
Incident Elements:
DysmorphiaInfectionsTrypophobiaBody Horror/ModificationEnvironmental HorrorTranscripts: https://rustyquill.com/transcripts/the-magnus-protocol/
This episode is dedicated to Hamda Alkhaja, thank you for your generous support! 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 Harlan Guthrie, for more of his work visit https://www.malevolent.ca/
Script Edited with a...
Episode 23 • 25 July 2024 • 25m and 43s
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Experiment (brain) -/- imprisonment (existential)
Incident Elements:
- Existential Horror
- Human Experiments
- Graphic Surgical Detail
- Seizure
- Arguements
- Mentions of: Animal Experiments
Transcripts: https://rustyquill.com/transcripts/the-magnus-protocol/
This episode is dedicated to April Richards, thank you for your generous support! You can a complete list of our Kickstarter backers https://rustyquill.com/the-magnus-protocol-supporter-wall/
Created by Jonathan Sims and Alexander J Newall
Dire...
Episode 22 • 18 July 2024 • 26m and 41s
This month we are featuring a feed drop of one of many incredible podcasts on the RQ Network: Remnants.
Remnants is a weekly, thrilling, dark fantasy, audio drama filled with mystery and has just launched on the RQ Network.
When we die, the remnants of us return to the First and Last Place. Our fate is decided by Sir and his new Apprentice, who read our remnants to determine whether they should be re-shelved or discarded. But what are the criteria? What happens to discarded souls? How are new lives for the...
Episode • 15 July 2024 • 29m and 29s
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Architecture (landmark) -/- corruption (entropy)
Incident Elements:
- Live Burial
- Rapid Aging
- Doppelgangers
- Compulsions (supernatural)
- Mentions of: strangulation
- SFX: tattoo buzzing, screaming
Transcripts: https://rustyquill.com/transcripts/the-magnus-protocol/
This episode is dedicated to Elena, thank you for your generous support! You can 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 Al...
Episode 21 • 11 July 2024 • 22m and 55s
This month we are featuring a feed drop of one of many brilliant podcasts on the RQ Network: WOE.BEGONE.
WOE.BEGONE is a weekly sci-fi horror audiodrama series about the nature of power and the implications of linear time and is created by the amazing Dylan Griggs, who also makes The Diary of Aliza Shultz Podcast.
This first episode of WOE.BEGONE, “Participant Observation,” follows Mike Walters, a man who discovers a mysterious and violent online game that begins to affect his real life.
The series continues...
Episode • 8 July 2024 • 16m and 58s
This month we are featuring a feed drop of one of many incredible podcasts on the RQ Network: The Sleep Wake Cycle.
The Sleep Wake Cycle is an audio drama blending supernatural horror with noir and dark fantasy.
This first episode of The Sleep Wake Cycle called “The Insomniac” finds exopsychotics investigator Isaiah Stroud with a new government assignment — assessing the state of the US in the wake of the Great Darkness of 1999.
The Sleep Wake Cycle is from the same brilliant creators behind the Maeltopia podcast.
In...
Episode • 14 June 2024 • 21m and 20s
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Transformation (tattoo) -/- Social Media (influencer)
Incident Elements:
- Atychiphobia (fear of failure)
- Desecration of Corpses
- Body Horror
- Non-Consensual body modification
- Mentions of: needles (tattoos), conspiracies, burns/fire, drugging
- SFX: Tattoo buzzing
Transcripts: https://shorturl.at/gzF15
This episode is dedicated to Blades and Chris, thank you for your generous support! You can a complete list of our Kickstarter backers https://rustyquill.com/the-magnus-protocol-supporter-wall/
Created b...
Episode 20 • 13 June 2024 • 26m and 59s
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Transformation (canine) -/- growth (Crystalline)
Incident Elements:
- Animal Peril/Threat
- Metallophobia
- Body Horror
- Mentions of: Therapy, Implied Mental Breakdown
Transcripts: https://shorturl.at/gzF15
This episode is dedicated to Dove Halber, thank you for your generous support! You can 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 Ale...
Episode 19 • 6 June 2024 • 21m and 41s
This month we are featuring a feed drop of one of many exciting podcasts on the RQ Network: The Program audio series.
The Program is a dark science fiction anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God have become fused into a single entity. The show focuses on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying – it is our present. This episode of The Program audio series is called Create Read Update Delete and is narrated by Zach Valenti. It follows a man who d...
Episode • 3 June 2024 • 36m and 7s
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Memory (derelict) -/- compulsion
Incident Elements:
- Isolation
- Strong Language
- Arguments
- Trauma Triggers
- Mentions of: corpses, autopsy, starvation
Transcripts: https://shorturl.at/gzF15
This episode is dedicated to John C. Worsley, thank you for your generous support! You can 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
Wri...
Episode 18 • 30 May 2024 • 24m and 14s
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