The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1941–1942
- Surviving broadcasts
- 27
- Genre
- horror
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.
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
8 dated broadcasts across 2 years on the air. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1941, in original transmission order.
- 1. The Man Who Came Back · 14 Nov 1941
- 2. The Thing from the Sea · 28 Nov 1941
- 3. Demon Tree · 5 Dec 1941
Sleeping Death
12 Jun 1942 · 15 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 12 June 1942. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
I Am Your Brother
5 Jun 1942 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 5 June 1942. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Rendezvous with Satan
29 May 1942 · 28 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 29 May 1942. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Dead Hands Reaching
22 May 1942 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 22 May 1942. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Funeral Arrangements Completed
15 May 1942 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 15 May 1942. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Cup of Gold
8 May 1942 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 8 May 1942. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Letter from Yesterday
1 May 1942 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 1 May 1942. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Edge of the Shadow
10 Apr 1942 · 24 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 10 April 1942. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1941–1942
Other series the network carried while Dark Fantasy was on the air.
Same seasons
horror on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The anthology of dread
A voice, a creaking door, and a self-contained story designed to frighten you in half an hour. Suspense and Lights Out built the grammar every horror anthology still uses.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
Working in the tradition of Dark Fantasy
Modern series carrying this form forward.
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