Ceaseless watcher, gaze upon this wretched thing

"Once upon a time there was fear. Old fear. Primal fear. A fear of blood and pounding feet, a fear of that sudden burst of pain and then nothing. And that fear was nothing. Went nowhere. Knew not what it was.

Then came minds that knew it differently. They grew slowly, over the millennia; inch by inch they found new things to dread. The fear of their own end, of the things that lived in the darkness, became a fear of the darkness itself. And as they grew to know what it is that they saw, to give it names, and struggle at learning, so too did they learn to fear that their eyes might deceive them, or show them too much. And as they learned to know their friends and kin, so too did they learn to fear the unknown figure, the coming of the stranger, and the silence when they were alone. And when they found fire, that bright ignition of home and hope and progress, the thing that was fear gorged itself on a newfound terror once again."

The Magnus Archives is a horror fiction podcast/radio drama written by Johnathan Sims and produced by Rusty Quill. It focusses on the contents of The Magnus Instute's (a London-based foundation dedicated to studying the paranormal) archive. It starts off being reminiscent of a creature feature or not dissimilar to entries of the SCP-foundation, however, as time goes on, an overarching story begins to emerge.

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