From the introduction to Snow's story "Midnight" in American Fantastic Tales: "In addition to his lifelong dedication to the legacy of L. Frank Baum, Snow worked for WNBC in New York for many years. At one point, in 1944, Snow persuaded NBC executives to consider developing a series of radio programs based on stories by a young and relatively unknown science-fiction writer named Ray Bradbury, although the series was never produced. Both Bradbury and Snow wrote stories that were published in the groundbreaking pulp magazine Weird Tales and in 1947 Snow prepared a collection of his short fiction for publication as a book. Initially, Snow wanted to include only the best twelve selections, including one of his more sinister tales, "Midnight," which had appeared in the May 1946 issue of Weird Tales with Bradbury's story "The Smiling People." But the publisher insisted on fattening the book by adding a number of early unpolished apprentice pieces, written when Snow was in his teens and early twenties. Bradbury, only twenty-six years old at the time, had agreed to write a foreword for Snow's collection—but he reneged when he read the material added to the volume, considering the early stories "patently unpublishable." As a result, the jackets for all copies of Jack Snow's book, Dark Music and Other Spectral Tales, had to be overstamped with a bar of ink, to block out Bradbury's name".
