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Hypnogoria

Hypnogoria

Welcome to Hypnogoria, Britian's longest running horror podcast!

Coming to you from the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a comfy armchair by the fireside to talk of all things weird and wonderful.

Here we discuss strange cinema and spooky television, explore weird fiction and delve into the mysteries of folklore. Plus we also regularly gather by the fireside to hear readings of some classic tales of the strange and the macabre.

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  • Apr 21, 2019 · 50 min

    HYPNOGORIA 115 - Sometimes Dead Is Better

    In the second part of our Pet Sematary series, we take a look at the 1989 film version directed by Mary Lambert and starring Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby and Fred Gwynn

  • Apr 7, 2019 · 44 min

    HYPNOGORIA 113 - From Some Unknown Gulf of Night

    In another sadly impromptu episode, we mourn the loss of one of the great modern writers of weird fiction, WH Pugmire. In this show we talk about his life, his influences, in particular Lovecraft, and of course, his own unique brand of strange tales.

  • Mar 31, 2019 · 52 min

    HYPNOGORIA 112 - Farewell Gentlemen

    In this show we pay tribute to the passing of three important names in the world of genre film and cult movies - actor Joe Pilato, effects wizard and director John Carl Buechler, and screenwriter and director Larry Cohen, and tale a look at some of their most memorable movies Day of the Dead, It's Alive, Troll, Friday 13th Part VII and Cellar Dweller.

  • Mar 17, 2019 · 58 min

    GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 58 - Death in the Well

    This week Mr Jim Moon invites you to the fireside of the Great Library of Dreams to hear a tale of terror from a lost master, Frederick Cowles, a writer of ghost stories rediscovered by the late great Hugh Lamb.

  • Mar 10, 2019 · 31 min

    MICROGORIA 67 - Treasures from a Gaslit Graveyard

    Welcome to a world of Victorian horrors and Edwardian terrors! In this episode we pay tribute to the great scholar and researcher of the macabre who sadly passed away last week. Hugh Lamb edited a great number of very influential horror anthologies and curated editions of macabre tales for the likes of E Nesbit and Robert W Chambers. He discovered lost and forgotten tales by masters such as MR James, Charles Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe, and rescued from obscurity dozens of long out of print weird tales, including several that I have read on the podcast in the past.

  • Mar 3, 2019 · 57 min

    HYPNOGORIA 110 - Answering the Call of Cthulhu

    In this episode, we take a look at the brand new Call of Cthulhu Starter Set from the Chaosium, a box of ghoulish delights that contains everything you need to start your own horror roleplaying game and explore the nightmare worlds of HP Lovecraft.

  • Feb 17, 2019 · 1 hr 3 min

    HYPNOGORIA 109 - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

    Mr Jim Moon explores the world of a true master of horror, Mr Garth Marenghi and revisits his seminal cult TV series Darkplace (copyright Dean Learner Enterprises) that was axed by the powers that be - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace! In this episode we look back the career of Romford's chillmaestro, the comedy horror classic that was Garth Marenghi's Darkplace which starred Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry, plus its spin-off Man to Man with Dean Learner.

  • Feb 13, 2019 · 8 min

    STRAY PAGES - Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath

    49 years ago today the first Black Sabbath LP was released, and to mark this milestone in rock history, Mr Jim Moon pays tribute with a special reading of a most enigmatic poem found on the sleeve of that LP

  • Feb 10, 2019 · 35 min

    MICROGORIA 66 - Spawn of the Subhuman

    Thanks to a raging throat infection Mr Jim Moon embarks on a daring raid into the dusty audio archives of the Great Library of Dreams and return with a high strange prize - one of weirdest ever tales to come out of the golden age of horror radio - Spawn of the Subhuman from Dark Fantasy

  • Jan 27, 2019 · 41 min

    HYPNOGORIA 108 - Bird Box

    In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a look at the recent Netflix horror release Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock. In the first section of the show, we have a spoiler-free look at this movie before taking off the blindfolds in the second half to head down river into spoiler-territory, delving into the history of the movie and its influences.

  • Jan 20, 2019 · 33 min

    MICROGORIA 65 - Shiver and Shake and the Creepy Creations of Ken Reid

    Appearing in the British comedy horror comic Shiver and Shake, every week a new mutant monstrosity escaped the pen of Ken Reid. And now the crazed creatures from this marvellous menagerie has been rounded and collected together in a handsome new tome from Rebellion - Ken Reid's Creepy Creations. Mr Jim Moon explains why you need this essential monster spotter's handbook on your shelves!

  • Dec 29, 2018 · 46 min

    HYPNOGORIA 107 - Ghostly Rules and Dead Rooms

    In the last episode of the festive season, and indeed of the year, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at what makes a good Christmas ghost story. We have a chat about the latest BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, The Dead Room starring Simon Callow and written and directed by Mark Gatiss, which aired this Christmas Eve. And then we hear from the master of the ghost story himself, MR James, with three readings of various essays and articles where he outlined his own rules for writing ghost stories.

  • Dec 24, 2018 · 32 min

    HYPNOGORIA 106 - All Through the House

    It's Christmas Eve, and in the spirit of the great MR James, Mr Jim Moon invites you to the fireside for some chit-chat and to tell a ghostly tale of his own...

  • Dec 23, 2018 · 2 hr 2 min

    HYPNOGORIA 105 - Christmas Visitants

    In this special episode, Mr Jim Moon continues his investigations into the tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas. While last year we traced the origins of the Christmas ghost story in literature, in this show we hunt down the ghosts of folklore and local legend and discover what spirits walk abroad at Yuletide.