Rusty Fears 7 - Clunk by Nairis Santini
The Magnus Archives
Rusty Quill
4.9 • 12K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
This week’s short horror story, Clunk, inspired by the prompt "Deep Space", is written by Nairis Santini and read by Shahan Hamza
The author would like to dedicate it to Serafino, "who read my stories when I was little and inspired me to continue writing."
Content Notes:
- Family arguements
- Thalassophobia
- Loss of Time
- Loss of Space
Directed and Produced by April Sumner
Written by Nairis Santini
Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner
Featuring
Shahan Hamza as Narrator
Edited by Lowri Ann Davies and Nico Vettese
Music by Nico Vettese and Sam Jones
Mastering by Catherine Rinella
Art by April Sumner
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, Billy Hindle here, the voice of Alice Dyer in the Magnus Protocol. |
| 0:04.3 | As part of the Magnus Archives 10th anniversary, Rusty Quill is hosting a special Magnus live show |
| 0:10.5 | at the upcoming Crossed Wires podcast festival in Sheffield. |
| 0:14.4 | Join co-creators Jonathan Sims and Alexander J. Newell on the 5th of July |
| 0:19.1 | for a new iteration of our live show, |
| 0:21.6 | Statement Begins, where you can hear fan favourite statements such as anglerfish, red live, |
| 0:27.6 | and gain exclusive insights into the creation and history of the show straight from the creators themselves. |
| 0:33.6 | You can buy your tickets now, including limited numbers of meat and greet tickets from crossedwires. |
| 0:38.9 | Live, or the link in the description of this episode. |
| 0:42.9 | Hi everyone, Alex here, founder of Rusty Quill and Nightmare in Chief for the Magnus Protocol. |
| 0:47.7 | I'm just taking a moment to introduce this latest installment in our Rusty Fears series. |
| 0:52.2 | We once again challenged our fans to write short horror stories |
| 0:55.0 | based on seven prompts and selected winners in each category to have their stories given the full |
| 0:59.6 | Magnus Protocol treatment. Each story is read by a different cast member, directed by our producer |
| 1:04.6 | April Sumner and edited by our very own in-house editing team. This series begins our fortnightly |
| 1:09.9 | release schedule leading up to the premiere of the Magnus |
| 1:12.2 | Protocol Season 2, Part 3, which returns on Thursday, July 16th, or two days early on |
| 1:17.0 | Tuesday, July 14th, for our early access supporters. |
| 1:20.1 | That's all for now, so thanks for listening, and we hope you find this as horrific as our judges |
| 1:24.4 | did, in a good way. |
| 1:38.0 | Clunk by Nairus Santini. |
| 1:45.8 | I do not tell this story often. It always feels like speaking it out loud might make it happen again, like describing |
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