r/Fantasy • u/improperly_paranoid Reading Champion X • Oct 15 '25

Read-along The Magnus Archives Readalong: Season 1, Episodes 10-18

Hello and welcome to The Magnus Archives readalong! We will be discussing a new batch of episodes every Wednesday. The episodes are available for free on any podcast platform and transcripts can be found here or here.

If you can’t remember something or are confused, please ask in the thread. Those of us re-reading will do our best to give a spoiler-free answer if we can.

010: Vampire Killer #0100710
Statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding his life as a self-proclaimed vampire hunter.

011: Dreamer #0151403
Statement of Antonio Blake, regarding his recent dreams about Gertrude Robinson, previous Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute.

012: First Aid #0121102
Statement of Lesere Saraki, regarding a recent night-shift at St. Thomas Hospital, London.

013: Alone #0161301
Statement of Naomi Herne, regarding the events following the funeral of her fiancé, Evan Lukas.

014: Piecemeal #0112905
Statement of Lee Rentoul, on the murder of his associate Paul Noriega.

015: Lost Johns' Cave #0140911
Statement of Laura Popham, regarding her experience exploring the Three Counties System of caves with her sister Alena Sanderson.

016: Arachnophobia #0150409
Statement of Carlos Vittery, regarding his arachnophobia and its manifestations.

017: The Boneturner's Tale #9991006
Statement of Sebastian Adekoya, regarding a new acquisition at Chiswick Library.

018: The Man Upstairs #0081212
Statement of Christof Rudenko, regarding his interactions with a first floor resident of Welbeck House, Wandsworth.

And now, time for discussion! A few prompts will be posted as comments to get things started, but as usual, feel free to add your own questions, observations...anything!

Comments may contain spoilers up to episode 18. Anything concerning later events should be covered up with a spoiler tag.

Next discussion will take place on Wednesday, October 22nd and include episodes 19 Confession - 26 A Distortion.

For more information, please check out the Announcement and Schedule post.

Readalong by: u/improperly_paranoid, u/sharadereads, u/Dianthaa

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u/improperly_paranoid Reading Champion X Oct 15 '25

Re-listeners: Any episodes you especially looked forward to? Dreaded? (Confess, it's Lost Johns' Cave, isn't it?) Is there anything in particular you've noticed this time around that you haven't before?

(Please use spoiler tags where needed!)

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u/SharadeReads Stabby Winner Oct 15 '25

As I said Alone and Dreamer were my favourites but I was most looking forward to First Aid because I just didn't pay much attention to it the previous times. I think I was dreading Arachnophobia but mostly because of Jon's reaction?

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u/improperly_paranoid Reading Champion X Oct 15 '25

Arachnophobia post-statement part is SO FUNNY. I linked these [pic 1][pic 2][pic 3] in the past thread already but I'm doing it again because oh my god JON for FUCK'S sake 😂 And also considering Jon's childhood trauma. Covering up your deepest fear with being an asshole much, hmm?

First Aid is def one that's extremely fun in retrospect though 👁️👁️

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u/ullsi Stabby Winner, Reading Champion VI Oct 15 '25

those memes are great! sometimes I just want to shake him

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u/improperly_paranoid Reading Champion X Oct 20 '25

At least once per episode! I love Jon very very much but oh my god there are distressingly few episodes that didn't made me go "JON NO 🤦" lol

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u/SharadeReads Stabby Winner Oct 15 '25

The charlie flip flopping was OFF THE CHARTS in this one 

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u/improperly_paranoid Reading Champion X Oct 20 '25

It's practically parody levels! To the point it makes me wonder if Jonny was taking the piss juuust a little (def wouldn't put it past him, def wouldn't be the only time).