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Lights Out often featured metafictional humor.

Perhaps inspired by Cooper's " The Coffin in Studio B ," in which actors rehearsing an episode of Lights Out are interrupted by a mysterious coffin salesman peddling his wares, Oboler wrote stories like " Murder in the Script Department ," in which two Lights Out script typists become trapped in their building after hours as frightening, unexplained events occur.

In " The Author and the Thing ," Oboler even plays himself pitted against one of his own monstrous creations.