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Dark Fantasy

26 episodes · 1941–1942 · NBC · Thriller

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Tales of horror and the supernatural written by Scott Bishop, produced at WKY in Oklahoma City and carried by NBC in 1941 and 1942.

Sources: RadioGOLDINdex

Episodes

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1941

• The Man Who Came Back November 14, 1941 · NBC · 25 min
  A killing over a man's wife ends with a promise to return from the grave for revenge.
• Thing from the Sea November 28, 1941 · 25 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Demon Tree December 5, 1941 · NBC · 24 min
  A strange forest, and a stranger tree.
• Men Call Me Mad December 19, 1941 · NBC · 25 min
  A scientist shrinks to the size of an atom, finds a tiny world threatened by plague, and falls for its princess.
• The House of Bread December 26, 1941 · NBC · 25 min
  A Christmas fantasy: a writer of ghost stories searches for the truth and is told to look for the House of Bread.

1942

• Resolution 1841 January 2, 1942 · NBC · 24 min
• The Curse of the Neanderthal January 9, 1942 · NBC · 24 min
  A grave forty thousand years old and the secret buried in it.
• Debt of the Past January 16, 1942 · NBC · 25 min
  An almost too honest businessman finds a way to repay a debt of honor, thirty years after his death. Jane Wyatt guests.
• The Headless Dead January 23, 1942 · NBC · 25 min
• Death Is a Savage Deity January 30, 1942 · NBC · 25 min
  Witchcraft and black magic, from Scott Bishop's own novel.
• Sea Phantom February 6, 1942 · NBC · 26 min
• W Is for Werewolf February 13, 1942 · NBC · 25 min
  A visit to an old friend on a very strange island.
• A Delicate Case of Murder February 20, 1942 · 25 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• Spawn of the Subhuman February 27, 1942 · NBC · 24 min
  A famous soprano's plane flight leads her into the hands of a madman.
• The Man with the Scarlet Satchel March 6, 1942 · NBC · 25 min
  An old millionaire turns a child's modeling clay, a joke gift, into a weird instrument of destruction.
• Superstition Be Hanged March 13, 1942 · NBC · 25 min
  A trapeze artist falls to his death, as a fortune teller predicted for anyone who wouldn't wear the bloodstained white feather.
• Pennsylvania Turnpike March 20, 1942 · NBC · 27 min
  An old hitchhiker who will only ride in a car with a redhead aboard.
• Convoy for Atlantis March 27, 1942 · NBC · 21 min
  Ships vanish in the night, and a voyage to the bottom of the Atlantic finds an ancient race.
• The Thing in the Darkness April 3, 1942 · NBC · 24 min
• The Edge of the Shadow April 10, 1942 · NBC · 25 min
  Murder in the barn and death in the skies.
• The Letter from Yesterday May 1, 1942 · NBC · 24 min
• The Cup of Gold May 8, 1942 · NBC · 24 min
• Funeral Arrangements Completed May 15, 1942 · 24 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this date as “Coffin for Two.”
• Dead Hands Reaching May 22, 1942 · NBC · 24 min
• Rendezvous with Satan May 29, 1942 · NBC · 29 min
• I Am Your Brother June 5, 1942 · NBC · 29 min