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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Oct 14, 2017 · 1 hr 3 min
HYPNOGORIA 73 – Recent Horror Round-up Part 2
Continuing our reviews of some recent horror movies, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at pleasure. In this show we review An Unkindness of Ravens, The Blackcoat's Daughter (AKA February), Get Out, and A Monster Calls. Once again all reviews are spoiler-free!
Oct 7, 2017 · 58 min
HYPNOGORIA 72 – Recent Horror Round-up Part 1
October is here and Hallowe'en is not far away. So then, in the first of a two part offering, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at some recent horror movies for your autumnal viewing pleasure. In this show we review Prevenge, The Evil Within, The Void and The Girl With All the Gifts. Note - all these reviews are spoiler-free!
Sep 30, 2017 · 37 min
HYPNOGORIA 71 – Scarred For Life
Do you remember the '70s? Strange decade wasn't it? Post apocalyptic dramas, weird crime fighters, spooky SF shows, and some genuinely terrifying ghost stories... And that was just the children's television! Come take a trip back to that very disturbing decade where terror and horror lurked everywhere from TV to comics to board games and even snack foods! Relive those golden days with Mr Jim Moon as we take an in-depth look at Scarred For Life Volume 1 by Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence, a marvellous tome that both catalogues and celebrate that was weird and unsettling in the 1970s!
Sep 23, 2017 · 39 min
MICROGORIA 46 – Sky
In this episode, Mr Jim Moon revisits one of the strangest ever TV shows for children, HTV's Sky, a bizarre SF tale that puzzled, perplexed and petrified a generation back in the 1970s!
Sep 17, 2017 · 1 hr 4 min
HYPNOGORIA 70 – A Tribute to Len Wein
In this episode, we mark the passing of another great talent, comics legend Len Wein, a man who penned classics runs on Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk, X-Men, the Phantom Stranger, the Justice League and Batman, and also created Swamp Thing and Wolverine!
Sep 9, 2017 · 41 min
GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS #36 – Dickon the Devil
The end of the summer is upon us, the days are beginning to shorten, and hence it's the perfect time for an autumnal tale of terror. Mr Jim Moon once again invites you to the cosy fireside of the Great Library of Dreams to hear a classic chiller from the man considered by the great MR James to be the best writer of ghost stories, Sheridan Le Fanu.
Sep 3, 2017 · 1 hr 6 min
HYPNOGORIA 69 – A Tribute to Tobe Hooper
In another special episode, Mr Jim Moon pays tribute to the great Tobe Hooper, who sadly passed away this week. In this episode we take a look back over his life and works, discussing genre-defining classics such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Salem's Lot and Poltergeist, as well as some of his less discussed movies such as Eaten Alive, The Fun House and Invaders from Mars.
Aug 26, 2017 · 59 min
HYPNOGORIA 68 – Day of the Triffids Part III
In this third but not final part of our (un)natural history of the triffids, we take a look at how Wyndham's horrible herbiage has fared on the small screen, reviewing the classic BBC six part series produced in 1981 and the 2009 mini series.
Aug 19, 2017 · 52 min
HYPNOGORIA 67 – Day of the Triffids Part II
Continuing our exploration of the (un)natural history of the triffids, in this episode Mr Jim Moon looks at the various radio version produced down the years by the BBC, and then joins Howard Keel to take on John Wyndham's horticultural horrors on the big screen in the 1962 movie version.
Aug 12, 2017 · 1 hr
HYPNOGORIA 66 – Day of the Triffids Part I
This week, we are popping out into the gardens of the Great Library of Dreams, to see how our prize triffids are coming along. And along the way we discuss the origins of these infamous plants and the themes of John Wyndham's classic SF novel.
Aug 6, 2017 · 22 min
MICROGORIA 45 – Landau, Lugosi and Wood
In an(other) unplanned impromptu episode Mr Jim Moon pays tribute the late Martin Landau, discussing Space 1999 and his Oscar winning performance as Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994). And then we take a quick look at Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster to round things off.
Jul 31, 2017 · 1 hr 3 min
HYPNOGORIA 65 – Knight of the Living Dead
In a special episode, Mr Jim Moon pays tribute to the late great George A Romero, taking a personal trip through the legendary director's many classic movies, chatting about movies such as Martin, Creepshow and The Crazies as well as his famous Dead saga.
Jul 29, 2017 · 1 hr 20 min
HYPNOGORIA 64 – Zombi Zombi Part 14 – Dead Air
In this episode we discover how the dead walked across the airwaves and uncover a legion of zombies in the world of old time radio! In this episode we discover a legion of zombies in the world of old time radio! We discover how the dead walked across the airwaves in shows like Unsolved Mysteries, Creeps By Night and Lights Out!
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 hr 2 min
HYPNOGORIA 63 – Zombi Zombi Part 13 – Zombies in the Pulps
In this episode we chart how the zombie genre was developed extensively in weird fiction, in tales from classic genre writers such as August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith and E Hoffman Price, and in the pages of the more lurid shudder pulps.
Jul 15, 2017 · 53 min
HYPNOGORIA 62 – Zombi Zombi Part 12 – Zombies in the 30s
Continuing our history of the walking dead, in this episode Mr Jim Moon traces the development of zombie cinema in the 1930s in movies such as Revolt of the Zombies and Ouanga.
Jul 8, 2017 · 46 min
GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS #35 – The Richpins
In this episode, we turn once again to the Stoneground Ghost Tales by EG Swain. In this little story, we learn of how Mr Batchell's rural parish is being haunted by a strange figure...
Jul 1, 2017 · 43 min
MICROGORIA 44 – The Clifton House Mystery
In this episode Mr Jim Moon continues to explore the eerie and macabre works for younger folks produced by Daniel Farson with a look at a ghostly television serial he co-wrote. Created for ITV, The Clifton House Mystery was one of several children's drama serials produced by Bristol's HTV in the '70s and '80s, many of which were on SF, fantasy or horror themes. In this serial, an ordinary family move into an old house that proves to have a somewhat troubled history...
Jun 24, 2017 · 58 min
HYPNOGORIA 61 – Mysteries of the Mummy Part X – Pharaohs in the 50s
At long last, Mr Jim returns to explore once more the mysteries of the mummy! In this episode, we discover what the Mummy was doing in the years between the end of the Universal series and the dawn of the Hammer cycle. We track down appearances in popular culture, talk about the mummies found lurking in the infamous 50s horror comics, and discuss two mummy movies from that era - both of which you can view for free and legally online.
Jun 18, 2017 · 1 hr 57 min
HYPNOGORIA 60 – The Natural History of the Batman Special – Holy Bat-Commentary
To mark the passing of the late great Adam West, Mr Jim Moon pays tribute with a special chapter of Bat-history - a complete commentary for Batman the Movie (1966)
Jun 10, 2017 · 48 min
HYPNOGORIA 59 – Are Mummies Zombies?
In this episode, Mr Jim Moon tackles one of the most troubling questions of our times, a question that has perplexed the minds of man for... ohh.. ages now! Yes, in this episode we attempt to settle once and for all the age-old question of are mummies zombies?