The Magnus Archives - Martin Blackwood
“I am Martin Blackwood, and I am not lonely anymore; I am not lonely anymore. I want to have friends; I - no, I have friends. I-I’m in love. I am in love, and I will not forget that; I will not forget. I am Martin Black-”
The Magnus Archives - Jonathan Sims “The Archivist”
“I know you’d stop me. You’d be right to, but… but if this goes wrong, all you lose is… I’m not risking anyone else. And I know… I think. I can get her out.”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Eye
“Look at the sky. It’s looking back.”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Lonely
“Without the lighted window in the distance, how am I to see myself apart from it?”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Dark
“When I reached the front door, I saw it was open, and shadows spilled out of it like paint.”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Buried
“When had the crushing pressure in his chest become literal? When had the empty promise of the horizon finally vanished completely, replaced by the pitch darkness of this - forever wall of earth?”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Spiral
“But I’m not sure… what else I know now; I’m not sure where else I know now. And I’m unsure where I’ve ever been. I had a home. A house. I know it had at least two floors, because there were stairs. The stairs were real. He wasn’t there, but the stairs were. At least to begin with.”
The Magnus Archives - Jonah Magnus aka Elias Bouchard
“If you try to interfere with me again in any way, I will drive that image so deep into your psyche that even if you are right - even if you live - it will be there every time you close your eyes.”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Hunt
“There’s a sharpness to them. They’re hunters. But over the years I’ve become a hunter as well and maybe predators recognize each other. All I know is, these days I can almost smell the blood coming off them.”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Corruption
“There is a sickness in this village. Perhaps you would not see it from a distance, and the faint sting of rot on the breeze is easy enough to dismiss. But as you get closer, that infectious feeling of wrongness is harder and harder to shake.”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Stranger
“There is a stranger claiming to be my mother. I don’t know who she is. Everyone else says that she’s my mother, and gives me looks of alarm when I tell them she’s an impostor. I don’t know what to do.”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Vast
“And then there was that picture of an empty sky. I’ve never had any fear of heights, but staring at that picture I felt… I don’t know, really. I just couldn’t look at it for too long. It seemed to open forever, nothing to do but fall into it.”
The Magnus Archives - Entities: The Slaughter
“There was no build-up to the screams; no lead-up to explain the sudden eruption of sounds of agony. There were crashes as well, noises of impact and, once or twice, something that sounded like tearing. Through it all, in the background, played that beautiful music.”