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The podcast icon for The Magnus Archives which features the title text in green over black with splintering lines like cracking glass

The Magnus Archive: Stretching Your Mind to the Darkest Corners

By Kevin Capon Goldszmidt • February 28th, 2025

The show expertly weaves through a wide range of horror genres, ensuring that sooner or later, it will find your weak spot.

A crop of the cover of Who Killed Sarah Shaw with a dark orange sky and black trees behind a woman with a worried shadowed look on her face

The Rural Noir of Who Killed Sarah Shaw

By Elijah Beahm • February 12th, 2025

Who Killed Sarah Shaw is an uncompromising, deeply uncomfortable look at the darkness that can lurk behind rural life.

Screenshot from Pentiment, where a person in scholarly robes is standing by a destroyed building talking to a young villager, the scholar is saying "Good, good. Keep the faith."

Pentiment: Thirteen Ways to Look at a Murder

By Francisco Dominguez • January 10th, 2023

Once you’ve dismantled religious conviction and the formative myths behind a place’s existence, what comes next?

Friction Burns
Screenshot from Pentiment, where a group of monks in their brown robes are having a lavish dinner with the local baron under an al fresco painting of the last supper. Lorenz is saying "Andreas! Glad you could join us."

Power Without Control In Pentiment

By Ruth Cassidy • December 21st, 2022

Pentiment is a game about the changing balance of social power, and this uncomfortable dinner sets the stage for how even words are catalysts of change.

The Heavy Pour

Our Town

By Sara Clemens • July 13th, 2018

Nothing says summer like mystery, and the point-and-click adventure Unforseen incidents stirs up half-remembered recollections of murder cases and childhood towns.

The Burnt Offering

A Sense of Place

By Stu Horvath • October 16th, 2015

How much can a place give you? How much can you take away?

Edward Gorey

Coffee Break of Mystery!

By Stu Horvath • June 10th, 2011

Edward Gorey’s intro for Mystery! messed up Stu Horvath’s brain when he was young. Now, thanks to YouTube, it can mess up yours too!

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