FILMFAX 43, Tod Browning,LON CHANEY,London After Midnight, Vampire Silent Movie,Radio Horror show Lights Out,Arch Oboler,Cesar Romero


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FilmFax The Magazine of Unusual Film & Television
Publisher: Filmfax Inc.,

Filmfax #43

Astor Pictures; history of Lights Out on radio and television; "The Dark Duo" (article on Tod Browning & Lon Chaney); a final conversation with Cesar Romero; part two of Ed Hartman interview; and more. Photo depicts Chaney in lost classic London After Midnight.

Lights Out is an American old-time radio program devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum.

Although in later years Lights Out would be closely associated with Oboler, he was always quick to credit Cooper as the series' creator and spoke highly of the older author, calling him "the unsung pioneer of radio dramatic techniques" and the first person Oboler knew of who understood that radio drama could be an art [wiki] ...

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