Content Warnings for The Magnus Archives: Season 1

Author’s Note: This resource contains significant spoilers for S1 of The Magnus Archives.

Content Warning Classifications
  • Addiction/Substances
  • Animal Cruelty
  • Body Horror
  • Disembodied Parts
  • Bugs
  • Vomit/Bodily fluids
  • Cannibalism
  • Claustrophobia
  • Death “on screen”
  • Familial Abuse
  • Forced Captivity
  • Heavy blood/gore
  • Infestation/contamination
  • Sexual Content
  • Medical Horror
  • Mental Instability
  • Death
  • Religious Horror
  • Disappearances
  • Self Harm
  • Gaslighting
  • Stalking/Chasing
  • Suicide
  • Trypophobia

Episode 1: Anglerfish

CW: Addiction/Substances, Disappearances, Stalking

Episode 2: Do Not Open

CW: Addiction/Substances, Claustrophobia, Death

Episode 3: Across the Street

CW: Disappearances, Gaslighting, Stalking

Episode 4: Page Turner

CW: Body horror, Death

Episode 5: Thrown Away

Body horror, Contamination, Disembodied Parts, Mental Instability, Substances, Vomit/Bodily Fluids

Episode 6: Squirm

Addiction/Substances, Bugs, Body Horror, Contamination/Infestation, Death, Heavy Blood/Gore, Sexual Content (consensual)

Episode 7: The Piper

Blood/Bodily Fluids, Blood/Gore, Body Horror, Death, Medical Horror, Mental Instability

Episode 8: Burned Out

Bugs (spiders), Blood/Gore, Death (Suicide, “on-screen”), Mental Instability (psychosis)

Episode 9: A Father’s Love

Blood/Gore, Chasing, Death (murder), Death (family member), Familial Abuse, Religious Horror

Episode 10: Vampire Killer

Blood/Gore, Death (family member), Death (child), Familial Abuse

Episode 11: Dreamer

Body Horror, Death, Death (family member), Death (suicide), Mental Instability

Episode 12: First Aid

Death (murder), Medical Horror, Substances

Episode 13: Alone

Death (loved one), Familial Abuse, Mental Instability

Episode 14: Piecemeal

Addiction/Substances, Blood/Gore, Body Horror, Body Parts, Cannibalism, Death (murder)

Episode 15: Lost John’s Cave

Claustrophobia, Death (family member), Familial Abuse

Episode 16: Arachnophobia

Bugs (spiders), Infestation/Contamination, Mental Instability (psychosis), Stalking

Episode 17: The Bone Turner’s Tale

Blood/Bodily Fluids, Body Horror, Body Parts, Contamination, Death

Episode 18: The Man Upstairs

Body Horror, Blood/Gore, Vomit/Bodily Fluids, Contamination, Death, Mental Instability, Trypophobia

Episode 19: Confession I

Addiction/Substances, Cannibalism, Gaslighting, Medical Horror, Mental Instability (psychosis), Religious Horror

Episode 20: Desecrated Host II

Addiction/Substances, Cannibalism, Contamination, Gaslighting, Medical Horror, Mental Instability (psychosis), Possession, Religious Horror

Episode 21: Freefall

Death (family member), Heights/Falling, Mental Instability (phobias)

Episode 22: Colony

Body Horror, Bugs, Infestation, Self Harm (scratching), Trypophobia, Forced Captivity

Episode 23: Schwartzwald

Claustrophobia, Death, Stalking

Episode 24: Strange Music

Clowns, Death (family member), Dolls, Familial Abuse (romantic relationship), Gore (mild)

Episode 25: Growing Dark

Contamination, Religious Horror, Stalking

Episode 26: A Distortion

Body horror, Bugs, Infestation, Stalking

Episode 27: A Sturdy Lock

Mental Instability (paranoia), Stalking

Episode 28: Skintight

Addiction/Substances, Body Horror, Ghosts, Medical Horror

Episode 29: Cheating Death

Body Horror, Body Parts, Death, Gore, Self-Harm

Episode 30: Killing Floor

Body Parts, Cannibalism, Death (mass), Death (animal), Gore, Self-Harm

Episode 31: First Hunt

Death (animal), Death (human), Chasing

Episode 32: Hive

Body Horror, Bugs, Trypophobia, Mental Instability

Episode 33: Boatswain’s Call

Death, Gaslighting, Forced Captivity

Episode 34: Anatomy Class

Blood/Bodily Fluids, Body Horror, Body Parts, Medical Horror, Suicide

Episode 35: Old Passages

Body Parts, Claustrophobia, Death, Mental Instability

Episode 36: Taken Ill

Body Horror, Bugs (flies), Bugs (spiders), Contamination, Medical Horror,

Episode 37: Burnt Offering

Death (family member), Death (child), Death, (animal) Religious Horror, Self-Harm, Suicide

Episode 38: Lost and Found

Bugs, Infestation, Death (loved one), Disappearance, Gaslighting, Mental Instability, Screaming/Jumpscares

Episode 39: Infestation

Body Horror, Bugs, Claustrophobia, Gore, Infestation, Possession, Screaming/Jumpscares

Episode 40: Human Remains

Body Horror, Bugs, Claustrophobia, Death (gun violence), Gore, Infestation, Possession, Screaming/Jumpscares, Suffocation, Trypophobia