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I started listening to The Magnus Archives yesterday - played episode 4 in my car on the way to work - and am enjoying it so far. It is precisely the right kind of spooky for me.

However. I am aware that eventually there will be some kind of continuing plot and characters and I'm sure I will also enjoy that but right now, it's a modern podcast version of Quiet, Please, with just one voice reading me unrelated spooky first-person stories with no explanation of the spooky bits* and I am worried that the overplot will give me too much explanation and ruin things.

This is, of course, the problem with any long work of horror. The author eventually feels that answers have to be provided which inevitably diminishes the horror. I think that's why horror is the only genre in which I really enjoy short stories, because they allow for a lack of explanation.

I mean, I'm going to keep listening to The Magnus Archives, as it's quite good, but I am braced for that inevitable small disappointment.







*Favorite unexplained spooky bit so far: the guy in episode three eating his notebooks.

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Continued listening to The Magnus Archive on my lunchbreak and have come to a potentially disturbing realization about myself, to wit:

If, in the course of my day, I found a garbage bag full of human teeth, my first thought would not be, "Oh gross!" or "I should probably report this to the police," but "...can I take this home with me?"

I mean, I probably wouldn't for reasons of hygiene and would probably stumble on the idea of reporting it to somebody eventually but the desire to own a garbage bag full of human teeth would still be there.