Broadcasting Horror

NBC Radio, 1938. Lights Out was the show that proved radio could terrify. This is “Superfeature” — classic horror from the golden age of broadcast.

The broadcast is live and something has gone terribly wrong inside the feed. Lights Out returns to its self-referential horror about the medium itself — a story set within the machinery of NBC Radio production that reveals the horror hidden inside the most routine broadcast. Originally broadcast April 6, 1943. This recording is in the…