The signal still rides on the original frequency — though you only catch it after the major stations have signed off. A brief history of WLAI, the late-night horror station behind the Midnight Macabre programming block.
Horror keeps returning to the same shape. From the pulps through Lights Out, Twilight Zone, Tales from the Crypt, and Black Mirror, the anthology is the genre’s most durable form. A history of why — and what radio invented that television and streaming have spent decades inheriting.
The medium did not die. It moved. So why are people still listening to broadcasts from 1937? An honest look at where Old-Time Radio fits in the algorithmic-audio era.