About

The Ninth Archive was an immersive storytelling experiment: tales, illustrations, and artifacts from a phantasmagorical realm that was slowly entwining with our own.

The project began in 2017. In 2022, its co-founder and illustrator, Marcelo Gallegos, passed away. This brought about the end of the project, and nothing new will be created for it. This website attempts to gather together all that was a part of it, to preserve and to exhibit.

The Patreon

The Ninth Archive was primarly distributed through Patreon. You can browse the inactive Patreon page. The Patrons of the Ninth Archive each belonged to one of these esteemed coteries.

A curled hand with a pearlescent eye opening in the palm, like a wound.

Scavengers

They who sample tantalizing otherworldly evidence.

An eyeless face grimacing, revealing large and blocky misaligned teeth.

Mudlarks

They who undergo initiation into the Ninth Archive’s main body.

A flower of many curling petals concealing part of a face within it.

Amaneuenses

They who covet the artifacts of another dimension.

An opal-like faceted crystal with angelic wings.

Bibliotaphs

They who amass their own personal Archive.

This was the initial video “pitching” the project. Music by Lady Uranium.

Further Reading