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Dark Fantasy

Networks
NBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1941–1942
Episodes
28

DARK FANTASY

More about it

Dark Fantasy was a short series with tales of the weird, adventures of the supernatural, created for you by Scott Bishop. The series aired as a horror drama on NBC between 1941 and 1942. Dark Fantasy was a series dedicated to dealings with the unknown. Originating from radio station WKY, Oklahoma City, it was written by Scott Bishop (of The Mysterious Traveler and The Sealed Book fame) and was heard Fridays over stations. Tom Paxton served as announcer. The shows covered horror, science fiction and murder mysteries. Although a short series, the shows are excellent with some stories way ahead of their time. The following is a news promo promoting the show: Every since Lights Out went out several years ago, fans of the fiendish have been clamoring for more good old goose-pimple horror drama on the air. Now they have it. One of the programs that currently freezes the airwaves with its chilling stories is Dark Fantasy comparatively new to the networks. In the late hours of Friday nights these shivery, shocking stories go out over NBC - right straight from Oklahoma City, which you might not have thought of as headquarters for haunts. Station WKY is the home of the Dark Fantasy plays, and the writer is Scott Bishop, who lives in the midst of mystery and the supernatural, represented by the innurnerable volumes of thriller fiction, fantasy lore and all kinds of horror literature that fill his home andhis office. Bishop has long contributed to network broadcasting and…

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. The Man Who Came Back

    · No. 1 · 25 min

  2. The Thing from the Sea

    · No. 3 · 25 min

  3. Demon Tree

    · No. 4 · 24 min

  4. Men Call Me Mad

    · No. 5 · 25 min

  5. The House of Bread

    · No. 6 · 25 min

  6. Resolution

    · No. 7 · 24 min

  7. The Curse of the Neanderthal

    · No. 8 · 24 min

  8. Debt from the Past

    · No. 9 · 25 min

  9. The Headless Dead

    · No. 10 · 25 min

  10. Death Is a Savage Deity

    · No. 11 · 25 min

  11. The Sea Phantom

    · No. 12 · 26 min

  12. W Is for Werewolf

    · No. 13 · 25 min

  13. A Delicate Case of Murder

    · No. 14 · 25 min

  14. Spawn O The Sub Human

    · 23 min

  15. Spawn Of The Subhuman

    · No. 15 · 25 min

  16. The Man with the Scarlet Satchel

    · No. 16 · 25 min

  17. Superstition Be Hanged

    · No. 17 · 25 min

  18. Pennsylvania Turnpike

    · No. 18 · 27 min

  19. Convoy For Atlantis (damaged)

    · No. 19 · 21 min

  20. The Thing from the Darkness

    · No. 20 · 24 min

  21. The Edge of the Shadow

    · No. 21 · 25 min

  22. The Letter from Yesterday

    · No. 24 · 24 min

  23. The Cup of Gold

    · No. 25 · 24 min

  24. Funeral Arrangements Completed

    · No. 26 · 24 min

  25. Dead Hands Reaching

    · No. 27 · 24 min

  26. Rendezvous with Satan

    · No. 28 · 29 min

  27. I Am Your Brother

    · No. 29 · 29 min

  28. Sleeping Death

    · No. 30 · 16 min

Where it comes from 2

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Dark Fantasy - Single Episodes

    Old Time Radio Researchers · Old Time Radio Researchers Group · 27 episodes here · archive.org

    CC BY-NC-ND 2.5: CC BY-NC-ND 2.5, as its uploader states it at the Internet Archive.

  2. Dark Fantasy 42 02 27 Spawn Of The Sub Human

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it.

5 more sets hold only episodes played here from a set above.

A set by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group (otrr.org), at the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio collection.

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