The Ghost in the Tape Recorder: the Analog Horror of The Magnus Archives and Archive 81
Abstract
This article discusses two horror-themed narrative podcasts, The Magnus Archives (2016-2021) and Archive 81 (2016-2021). It explores the ways in which these podcasts, part of a new culture of aurality, employ the technological specificities of their medium, while at the same time drawing on the tradition of horror and the Gothic. Specifically, it looks at the ways in which these digital podcasts, disseminated over the Internet to audiences who listen to them mostly on their computers or smartphones, remediate media from the past, such as the radio and the tape recorder, and present them as a source of uncanniness and haunting.
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