📺On August 15, 1992 “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” premiered on Nickelodeon's SNICK (short for Saturday Night Nickelodeon)! Created by D. J. MacHale and Ned Kandel, the episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" premiered as a pilot episode on October 31, 1990, on the Canadian television network YTV. That episode would air on Nickelodeon on October 25, 1991 as a Halloween special. The original series would run until April 20, 1996 with series revivals running from February 6, 1999 to June 11, 2000 a