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…
One word. One act. One point of no return. Lights Out strips horror down to its most elemental — the single act of killing — and examines the psychological machinery that makes ordinary people capable of it. Originally broadcast April 20, 1943. Arch Oboler at wartime at his most uncompromising. This is not about monsters….
The jeep came back from somewhere it should not have been. Lights Out sets its supernatural horror against the backdrop of World War II — a military vehicle that returns from the front carrying something other than soldiers. Originally broadcast May 4, 1943. Horror and wartime are natural partners in the Oboler universe. This recording…
It is back. Lights Out revisits its spider horror with an episode that takes the premise of the original and carries it further into the specific, physical revulsion that only arachnid horror can produce. Originally broadcast May 18, 1943. You still cannot see it. The sound design ensures you do not need to. This recording…
She is back. The sweet old woman with the terrible secret. Lights Out returns to its most deceptively domestic horror — the monster wearing the costume of the harmless — in a second episode that benefits from the dread accumulated by the first. Originally broadcast May 25, 1943. This recording is in the Public Domain…
The music plays itself. Lights Out returns to the haunted organ — the supernatural pipe instrument whose sound is a summons, whose keys move without players, and whose music describes things that have not happened yet. Originally broadcast June 8, 1943. The pipe organ was always the instrument of death. Lights Out simply made it…
Everything before the act is the horror. Lights Out presents a premeditated murder story told entirely from inside the killer’s mind — the planning, the justifications, the terrible clarity of intention — making the listener complicit in every step toward the inevitable conclusion. Originally broadcast June 15, 1943. This recording is in the Public Domain…
Nature has been studying us back. Lights Out presents a biological horror in which the natural world stops being a backdrop and becomes an active threat — plants, organisms, and living systems that evolve specifically to consume. Originally broadcast June 22, 1943. Science horror with teeth. This recording is in the Public Domain in the…
Six hundred feet below the surface. No way up. Something outside the porthole window. Lights Out delivers its most claustrophobic horror in a bathysphere at the bottom of the ocean — two people in a metal sphere the size of a closet, with something on the other side of the glass that should not exist…
He is hanging by his hands and something above him is watching. Lights Out presents a horror of pure physical jeopardy — a man on the edge of a cliff at night with the terrible realization that the darkness above him is not empty. Originally broadcast July 6, 1943. The drop is not the worst…