RQ Network Feed Drop – “Burned by a Paper Sun” – Ep. 1
The Magnus Archives
Rusty Quill
4.9 • 12K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today we are sharing an episode from a brand new podcast launched on the RQ Network, Burned by a Paper Sun.
Burned by a Paper Sun is a brand new, chilling, horror anthology podcast from the same brilliant creators of The Gentleman From Hell, Maeltopia and The Sleep Wake Cycle.
In Burned by a Paper Sun, shadows come in a thousand shapes—some drawn long beneath a dying sky, others drifting and lost beneath a wandering cloud. Yet one certainty has always remained: every shadow must have a caster. But what if that isn’t true? What if darkness could stand on its own?
In this first episode William is a rational man, but even rational men are left broken by the Great Darkness of 1999. Despite his sceptical outlook, he is haunted by dreams of the most horrible and macabre variety. Most of all, he is terrorised by a single harrowing figure - the Elevator Man.
Introduction and outro by Billie Hindle
You can listen to the next episode of Burned by a Paper Sun by clicking on this link, or by searching for Burned by a Paper Sun wherever you find podcasts, or on the Rusty Quill website
--
Cast:
Written by Mark Anzalone
Edited by Walker Kornfeld
Sound mastering by Steven J. Anzalone
Narrated by Aubrey Akers
Intro music by Steven Anzalone, Lou Sutcliffe, and female vocals by Harper Tacent
Artwork done by Mark Anzalone and Danielle Adam's
Music and Sound effects are licensed from third party providers including Envato, Epidemic Sound, Artlist, Soundstripe, Melody Loops, Pond 5, Soundcrate, Music Vine, Youtube, Melodie, Slipstream, and Storyblocks
Content Warnings:
Amnesia, Altered Reality, Compulsions (supernatural), Existential Threat, Gore, Graphic Violence, Torture, Human Remains, Sleep Disorders, Psychosis, Anxiety and Panic, Compulsive Thoughts, Therapeutic malpractice, vehicular accidents, Environmental Collapse, Human Butchery, Falling, Elevators.
Mentions of:
Alcohol, Suicide, PTSD, People Going mission / abductions, Cults, Mass Suffering
SFX
Gore/blood, Screaming, Beeping, Car Crash, Misophonia, Storms, Squelching
For ad-free episodes, bonus content and more, join members.rustyquill.com or our Patreon.
Pre-order The Magnus Archives Mysteries: rustyquill.com/mysteries.
Pre-order FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER, a Magnus novel: rustyquill.com/novel
Buy tickets to a Magnus Archives Live Show in Sheffield, UK in July 2026: https://crossedwires.live/podcast/the-magnus-archives
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi there, this is Kareen, the voice of Simon Fairchild of the Magnus Archives. Today, I wanted to tell you about our adorable collab with U2s. If you've listened to a lot of the Magnus Archives, you may be familiar with the Admiral, Georgie's friendly attention-seeking pet cat. Now available for a strictly limited time, you can purchase your very own plush of this cuddly cat exclusively from U-2s, available to pre-order at rustyquill.com slash U2s. The Admiral Plush is nine inches tall and combines both Jonathan Sims and Alexander Jane Yule's visions of what he might look like. This interpretation is a perfect orange tabby with a cute, friendly face and a hoodie inspired by Georgie's podcast, What the Ghost. The Admiral is available to pre-order until the 22nd of December, so order soon to avoid missing out. Pre-order by visiting rustyquill.com slash U-2s. That's rusty quill.com forward slash Y-O-U-T-O-O-Z. That's Y-O-U-T-O-O-Z. Have fun. See you later. Hi, everyone. It's Billy Hindle here. Today, we are sharing an episode from a brand new podcast |
| 0:55.9 | launched on the RQ network, Burned by a Paper Sun. Burned by a Paper Sun is a brand new |
| 1:02.3 | chilling horror anthology podcast from the same brilliant creators of the Gentleman from Hell, |
| 1:07.9 | maelotopia and the sleepwake cycle. In burned by a paper sun, |
| 1:12.3 | shadows come in a thousand shapes, some drawn long beneath a dying sky, others drifting and lost |
| 1:18.5 | beneath a wandering cloud. In this first episode, William is a rational man, but even rational |
| 1:24.5 | men are left broken by the great darkness of 1999. |
| 1:28.3 | Despite his skeptical outlook, he is haunted by dreams of the most horrible and macabre variety. |
| 1:34.3 | Most of all, he is terrorized by a single harrowing figure, the elevator man. |
| 1:40.3 | Find other brilliant episodes in this series by searching for burned by a paper sun wherever you listen to podcasts. |
| 1:47.1 | Click the link in the show notes or find more information at www.mailtopia.com or www.RustyQuil.com. |
| 1:55.4 | Have fun and enjoy the episode. The episode. The |
| 2:20.3 | The same |
| 2:22.3 | The same |
| 2:24.3 | The same |
| 2:25.3 | the surface |
| 2:26.3 | I'm going to see you |
| 2:30.3 | and I'm not I'm I'm |
| 2:35.0 | I'm |
| 2:37.0 | I'm |
| 2:38.0 | I'm |
| 2:39.0 | I'm |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rusty Quill, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Rusty Quill and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.