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[darchildre]

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.

Comments

[nanslice]

The overarching theme doesn't answer very many questions and the answers that are provided are not the kind that provide comfort, if that makes sense?

And the one shot spooky stories don't really stop! :3

[darchildre]

That's good to know - thank you!