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We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Cold Tapes. Created by the talented team at Free Turn Production.

Cold Tapes is an award winning murder mystery Audio Drama inspired by true crime. ,

In this first episode called “Operation Antelope” The brutal murder of Andrew Fairfield on a remote Antarctic base thrusts DCI Tessa McCallister into the claustrophobic lives of an isolated community of international scientists and crew.

Through police interviews, covert recordings, and audio diaries, Tessa hears hidden agendas, concealed criminal histories, violent psychosis, and dangerous conspiracy theories that help her uncover the truth behind the murder.

With the murderer still on the base it’s a race against time to untangle the maze of deception, revealing chilling truths buried beneath the ice.

16 Suspects. 1 Murderer. Can you solve it?

Introduction and outro by Shahan Hamza. Listen to Cold Tapes on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Cold Tapes on its official website.  

Credits: 

A Free Turn production.

Written by Alexis Zegerman and Jonathan Myerson

Developed and Story Produced by Chris Croucher and Emma Lamont

Directed and Produced by Sian Williams

Associate Producer: Thisbe Barnett

Executive Producers: Jon Hamm, Gemma Batterby, Ron Downey, Emma Lamont, Chris Croucher and Robbie Ashcroft

Content warnings:

Mentions of Death, Medication, Isolation, and Mental Health.  

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This week’s short horror story, Well Fed, inspired by the prompt "Waste", is written by Luka Suk and read by Imogen Harris

Content Notes:

- Description of food/eating

Directed and Produced by April Sumner

Written by Luka Suk

Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner

Featuring

Imogen Harris 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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This month we are featuring an episode of one of many exciting podcasts on the RQ Network: The Program audio series. 

The Program audio series is a dark science fiction anthology set in a future in which Money, State, and God have become fused into a single entity. The show focuses on ordinary people inhabiting this extraordinary world. And for them, it is not this future that is terrifying – it is our present.

In this episode called “All unsaved progress will be lost” a beloved System Administrator suddenly disappears, leaving Sam a poor stonemason to embark on a lifelong quest to preserve her memory.

You can find the episode transcript at programaudioseries.com/32-all-unsaved-progress-will-be-lost/ including credits and a list of references.

The Program audio series is created and produced by IMS. Introduction and outro by Helen Gould

You can listen to The Program audio series on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, on its official website, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Content warnings

Permanent Bodily Harm

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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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Thank you for your support over the last ten years of Magnus!

The Magnus Protocol returns 16th July, with Kickstarter backers and paid members at the Knights and Nobles tiers getting 48-hour ad-free early access on 14th July.

Find out more about our paid member platforms at:

• members.rustyquill.com
• patreon.com/rustyquill

Other useful links:

• The announcement for the Rusty Fears 7 winners: https://rustyquill.com/news/2026-01-12-announcing-the-winners-of-rusty-fears-7/
• Pre-order links for From the Library of Jurgen Leitner: https://rustyquill.com/novel
• Knock Thrice The Magnus Archives collection: https://knockthrice.ca/collections/magnus-archives
• Purchase tickets to Statement Begins at Crossed Wires: crossedwires.live

Transcript: Ten years of Magnus - April 2026 Update - Transcript.pdf

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We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Planet Arcana. Created by the talented J Strautman and B Marsollier. 

Planet Arcana is a science fantasy audio fiction, presented by two game runners, and built through a D&D 5e framework. The show will appeal to fans of actual play and audio drama alike. 

The world of Planet Arcana is rife with mystery, intrigue, crime and no answer is ever straightforward. What really happened at the Riskotheque casino? Who’s been stealing Android organs? And why? 

4000 years after a calamity known as the Big Oops, the world of Planet Arcana is a place of humans and androids, neon metropolises, sunken cities, phenomenal parties, paranormal oddities, and a pantheon of Major Arcana. 

An influencer, a drug dealer, and a cowboy walk into a casino, then into a vast mystery of science, magic, and Tarot-inspired gods. Three Fools on a simple quest to find a key, and open a box. 

Introduction and outro by Lowri Ann Davies. Listen to Planet Arcana on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Planet Arcana on its official website.  

For ad-free and early access episodes and exclusive bonus content you can join their Patreon at Patreon.com/planetarcana 

Credits: 

Co-Creators & DMs J Strautman and B Marsollier 

Performed By J Strautman, B Marsollier, Peter Marsollier, Shaun Oldfield, and Skye Wallace 

Editing, original music, and sound design by J Strautman 

Sound effects from Nikko Hunt's Cinematic Sound Pack [https://nikkohunt.gumroad.com/l/dpclP] used, under CC by 4.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode]. Pitch modified lower from the original 

Content warnings: swearing, violence, drug use. 

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This month we are featuring a feed drop for an incredible podcast on the RQ Network: Not Quite Dead.

Not Quite Dead is a UK-based Gory, Horror, Romance, podcast from the award-winning team behind Spirit Box Radio, Remnants and Clockwork Bird.

Follow Alfie, a nurse working overtime when a patient arrives with her throat torn out. This is just the beginning of a terrifying night as Alfie finds himself caught in a battle between the living and the undead.

Saved by a mysterious stranger named Casper, they find themselves inescapably bound together. Neither of them are happy about it, but the draw of each other’s blood is irresistible.

Introduction and outro by Anusia Battersby. Listen to Not Quite Dead on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you listen to podcasts. To learn more about Not Quite Dead, check out their official website.

If you want to support Not Quite Dead and it’s creators, head to www.rustyquill.com/fundraiser

Credits: Written, performed and edited by Eira Major.

Transcript: https://hangingslothstudios.com/nqd-1/

Content Warnings:

Please bear in mind that this show is a work of horror fiction and frequently places characters in situations which jeopardise their psychological and physical health. This episode contains:

– mild profanity

– references to sex

– discussion of the process of dying

– medicalised descriptions of death processes and dead people

– death, including violent death

– references to medical procedures

– hospital settings

– mentions of blood

– mentions of infidelity

– descriptions of blood

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We are featuring the first episode of a new series from Rusty Quill: Welcome to Fosters.

Detectives investigate a dire disturbance in both magic and the dead on the streets of Sydney, Australia in this spirited urban fantasy.

Listen to the next episode by going to the Rusty Quill website, or by searching for “Neon Inkwell” wherever you find podcasts. 

Neon Inkwell: https://shows.acast.com/neon-inkwell 

Transcript: https://shorturl.at/pJQV7

Showrunner Elizabeth Moffatt 

Directed by Chris Magilton 

Written by Imogen Cassidy 

Script Editor Chris Magilton 

Produced by April Sumner 

Executive Producers Alexander J Newall & April Sumner 

Featuring 

Michael Bache as Brian Hewlitt-Smith 

Nina Nikolic as Jill Foster 

Harrison Keen as Mark Wilson 

Lowri Ann Davies as the Forest Spirit 

Tim Sefo as Oliver Long 

Brooke Scobie as Oliver's mum  

Lee Davis-Thalbourne as Genial Passenger 

Flloyd Kennedy as Mrs West 

Sebrina Thornton-Walker as Gloria Foster 

Matt Malachite as Graham Edgers  

Alice Magilton as Marie 

Isabelle Houghton as young Jill 

Hannah Aroni as Sylvia Price 

Maia Harlap as The Receptionist 

Chris Alosio as Tulele 

Cooper Mortlock as Mook and Mr Simpson 

Additional voices by Elizabeth Moffatt and Chris Magilton. Our Zombie Horde include Jenna Krasowski, Alexander Bryan, and Catherine Rinella. 

Dialogue Editor – Lowri Ann Davies 

Sound Designer – Elizabeth Moffatt 

Mastering Engineer and Music Editor– Meg McKellar  

Title music by Sam Jones 

Additional music by Nico Vettese 

Art by Guerrilla Communications 

Original SFX and foley for this series were produced by Elizabeth Moffatt, Frances Miller-Pezo, Daniel Hill, Chris Magilton, and Imogen Cassidy. Additional SFX for this series include sounds sourced from Soundly, Freesound, Zapsplat, AudioHero, and Pixabay. This includes SFX provided by Klankbeeld, Avakas, Youandbiscuitme, Pfranzen, Dynamicell, Newlocknew via freesound.org.   

The Australian production team would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which this series is set, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We pay our respects to elders, past and present. 

Neon Inkwell is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share alike 4.0 International Licence.

Introduction and outro by Lowri Ann Davies.

Content warnings  

- Altered reality

- Childhood trauma

- Fire

- Hunt or attack by an animal

- Undead

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We are featuring a feed drop from a brilliant show on the RQ Network: Hi Nay.

"Hi Nay” is an atmospheric, analog-style horror audio drama, featuring Folk Horror, mythology and chilling supernatural terrors in an urban setting.

Hi Nay, literally translated to “Hi Mom”, follows Mari, a Filipina immigrant who lives in Toronto.

Mari first gets roped into Toronto’s supernatural crises after saving Laura from being killed. From then on, she assists Detectives Donner and Murphy in dealing with supernatural threats using her upbringing as a babaylan (Shaman).

Mari finds herself dealing with a multitude of supernatural issues in Toronto. She has a great aptitude for magic, though her abilities seem to have a price she’s not forthcoming about. She calls her Nanay (mother) often and recounts her experiences over the phone. 

This exciting audio drama is filled with Mystery, Suspense, and most importantly, Horror.

Introduction and outro by Shahan Hamza. Listen to Hi Nay on The Rusty Quill website, on Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts, or learn more about Hi Nay on its official website.  

Credits:

Motzie Dapul (Creator, writer, director, editor, voice actor for Mari)

Reg Geli (Co-creator, editor)

Yoyi Halago, Alyssa Gimenez (Editors)

Abigayle Rhodes as Laura, Leon Johnson as Donner, Edward Boxler as Murphy, Adil Ramchurn as Ashvin (Main Cast)

Content Warnings: Injury and bruising, Blood, Vomit, Animal remains, Human remains

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This month we are featuring a recent episode of one of many exciting podcasts on the RQ Network: Push the Roll with Ross Bryant. 

Push the Roll with Ross Bryant is a weekly improvised comedy horror actual play podcast from the creators of the award-winning Ain’t Slayed Nobody podcast. Each episode features improvised Call of Cthulhu adventures combining cosmic horror table top RPG and dark comedy filled with amazing special guests.

This is part one of The Butterfly Factory and features a guest appearance from Brennan Lee Mulligan  

To listen to the next exciting episode which is out now by clicking on the link in the description or search for Push the Roll with Ross Bryant wherever you get your podcasts or you can find more information on rustyquill.com or pushtheroll.com

You can find the episode transcript at https://pushtheroll.com/transcripts.

Push the Roll with Ross Bryant is created and produced by Cuppycup and Hosted by Ross Bryant.

Featuring

Ross Bryant as Keeper of Arcane Lore

Brennan Lee Mulligan as Allen Clay

Paula Deming as Margot Marceau

Nic Rosenberg as Willow

cuppycup as Velvet Bloom

Dialogue Editing by cuppycup

Sound and Music Design by cuppycup

Produced by cuppycup

Introduction and outro by Karim Kronfli

You can listen to the 2nd part of this brilliant episode by using This Link.  

Or you can listen to Push the Roll with Ross Bryant on the Rusty Quill website, on Acast, on its official website, or wherever you get your podcasts.

 Content warnings 

·       sexual themes,

·       exploitation,

·       gaslighting,

·       drug and alcohol use,

·       profanity,

·       political violence references

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