Can You Guess Which of These Future Stars Appeared on ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark?’
If I were a Nickelodeon Kid who grew up in the ’90s, this was your gateway to horror Are you afraid of the dark?The anthology show, which featured creepy tales told by members of the Midnight Society in classic campfire style, ran for seven seasons and provided chills without any gore.
It also catered to up-and-coming talent. See if you can spot the familiar faces that appeared in the show and those that didn’t in the quiz below.
Are you afraid of the dark? It was part of a bigger one Juvenile horror market Explosion in the 1990s. R.L. Stine’s was taken over by kids at school book fairs Goosebumps Series and works Christopher PikeBoth were often more gruesome than anything that could be shown on television. (A Goosebumps A television series that, excluding the more disturbing elements in the books, premiered in 1995.)
However, Nickelodeon almost missed out on the kids’ horror boom. The network originally rejected the pitch for Are you afraid of the dark?with executives insisting that scaring children was not part of their strategy. (They came last.) But the network drew the line when it came to one thing: campfires during wraparound segments. The channel insisted on never showing the characters lighting them because they did not want to educate the children at home on how to start their own fires. There is only one episode that shows a child striking a match, the 1992 episode “The Tale of the Hungry Hounds.”
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