Fear on the Radio. One of the biggest influences on me as a paranormal/horror writer was old time radio horror shows. They taught me a lot about building suspense and how what you can't see is often more terrifying than what you can. … Many of the shows are as bone-chilling today as there were when first broadcast (And the show was certainly a huge inspiration to the 1970s CBS Radio Mystery Theater hosted by E.G. Marshall, which also began with the ominous … …