The more fearful the world is of a certain thing, the more powerful the related entity becomes, becoming empowered by the increased fear of its realm of influence. It is not only human fear that counts but that of animals as well, particularly for The Flesh and The Hunt. These entities do not simply feed off of fear but are fears made manifest. Their influence upon reality manifests as supernatural happenings - all supernatural phenomena in the world are simply extensions of them. These phenomena can take various forms such as people, animals, monsters, books, objects, or places, all with the goal of evoking fear, terror, and paranoia from all who encounter them. They are variously also referred to as Gods, powers, or simply as the Fears.

They are various aspects of an amorphous force of fear that exists next to our reality.

The Entities, also called the Fears, the Powers, the Dread Powers, and The Things That Were Fear are the principle antagonists of The Magnus Archives, and the phenomena that more mundane and earthly antagonists serve. Always looking for ways to grow and spread.” Would that ant be able to construct these things into the form of a single human being? Or would it believe itself to be under attack by three different, equally terrible, but very distinct assailants?' You climb to the top, trying to find escape, and above, you can see the vast, dark shadow of a boot falling upon you. You flee to another entrance, only to be confronted by a staring eye gazing at you.

Then one day, into your colony, a huge fingernail is thrust, scraping and digging. 'Imagine you are an ant, and you have never before seen a human. She was born in Detroit Michigan on October 11, 1904, and died February 3rd, 1988.This article contains information from later episodes of The Magnus Archives and may contain major spoilers for the setting and plot. Many of her science fiction novels have a natural history theme. Hopf on topics in natural history and entomology, and was a member of several New York based scientific societies.Ī dust jacket biography says that she originally started to compose science fiction stories to tell to her son, Christopher, and later wrote science fiction for publication. She also published twenty-seven children's non-fiction books under the name of Alice L. It was mainly aimed at young readers, and is all of fairly high quality. Alice Martha (A.M.) Lightner (1904-88) was a New York woman fiction author, who produced a fairly respectable body of science fiction works.

Star Dog by A.M. Lightner