(It's been written in old-time radio archives that this was because the series was considered far too terrifying for 1940s youth, when, in fact, NBC had airtime to fill after discontinuing its late-night dance band remotes.) The show was created by ' Scott Bishop', the pseudonym … Bishop would script all 31 episodes of Dark Fantasy, citing as influences the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas DeQuincy and Samuel Coleridge. Describing the appeal of macabre tales for radio, … …

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