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The House of Bread - Dark Fantasy | 12/26/1941 (Ep06)

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Word tells Scott Bishop to seek the “house of bread” for truth, light, happiness, and peace.
1. Dark Fantasy's “The House of Bread,” broadcast on December 26, 1941, follows a writer's supernatural search for truth, light, and peace. 2. Scott Bishop narrates as a radio fantasy writer, while Sonia becomes his companion and records their international journey in a diary. 3. After dreaming of a man named Word, Scott is instructed to “seek you the house of bread” rather than receive a direct explanation. 4. Word and Scott debate whether truth is vague or real, invoking the biblical phrase “the way and the truth and the light.” 5. Scott's boss points to a proposed series of 12 supernatural stories worth $3,000, including a payment of $250 per story. 6. Scott rejects a vacation and leaves his career behind, while Sonia agrees to search with him despite the destination's uncertainty. 7. Their May 21 departure from Long Beach leads through Las Vegas, Highway 66, London, Paris, Madrid, Morocco, Tripoli, Egypt, and Jerusalem. 8. Sonia's five-year diary turns ordinary travel details into a record of a quest that repeatedly meets laughter and unfamiliarity. 9. The phrase “house of bread” is treated as a possible symbol rather than a known address, linking the search to Sir Galahad's Holy Grail quest. 10. Listeners who enjoy vintage radio fantasy and biblical symbolism.

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A haunted creative vision becomes a solemn religious quest for the meaning of the House of Bread.

Scott Bishop's dream begins at the typewriter and opens into a solemn spiritual search, carrying him from a precipice above the earth toward a truth he cannot yet name.

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You follow a dream from a quiet study to a search whose answer waits in Bethlehem.

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