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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Jun 2, 2025 · 18 min
MICROGORIA 127 - Very Important News
I have some serious news and it ain't great...
May 18, 2025 · 48 min
HYPNOGORIA 285 - Remembering the Ghostly Books of Aidan Chambers
This week, the great children's author Aidan Chambers sadly passed away. And this show we take a fond look back on the ghostly books he penned and the various anthologies of spooky stories he edited.
May 4, 2025 · 41 min
HYPNOGORIA 284 - Stone Age Horrors
Did you know Oliver Stone had made a horror film? No? Did you know he'd made TWO horror movies before he directed Salvador (1986)? Well, step this way and discover his first two movies - Seizure (1974) starring Jonathan Frid, Hervé Villechaize and Martine Beswick, and The Hand (1981) starring Sir Michael Caine!
Apr 20, 2025 · 45 min
HYPNOGORIA 283 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part VII
In this chapter we examine the movie often hailed as the greatest Roger Corman ever made - Masque of the Red Death (1964) - starring Vincent Price, Hazel Court, and Jane Asher, plus cinematography from future legendary director Nicolas Roeg.
Apr 6, 2025 · 46 min
HYPNOGORIA 282 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part VI
In this chapter we learn how Roger Corman made the very first movie adaptation of a HP Lovecraft story - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, starring Vincent Price and Lon Chaney Jnr. - but when it hit cinemas, it had become Edgar Allen Poe's The Haunted Palace! (And yes, they even spelled Poe's middle name wrong!)
Mar 23, 2025 · 46 min
HYPNOGORIA 281 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part V
In this chapter we have the next two Poe movies from Roger Corman, which each took a different direction. Tales of Terror (1962) was an anthology film featuring three different Poe stories, plus guest stars Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone. While The Raven (1963) was a comedy horror tale of feuding sorcerers which saw Vincent Price plotting magical skulduggery with Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a young Jack Nicholson!
Mar 9, 2025 · 33 min
HYPNOGORIA 280 - Nightmares of Nosferatu Part X
We take a look at the little known other remake of Nosferatu that surfaced last year, directed by David Lee Fisher and starring Doug Jones as Graf Orlock!
Feb 23, 2025 · 41 min
HYPNOGORIA 279 - The Return of the Wolf Man
We take a look at the latest incarnation of Universal werewolvery in Wolf Man (2025) written and directed by Leigh Whannell! Previous chapters in this series can be found here - The Wolf at the Door: a Werewolf History
Feb 9, 2025 · 52 min
HYPNOGORIA 277 - The Ideas Are Fish
The second part of my tribute to the late great David Lynch, in which we uncover Lynchian theories on life, art, film making and the importance of fishing...
Feb 3, 2025 · 35 min
HYPNOGORIA 277 - The Woodpeckers Are Not What They Seem
The first part of a tribute to the late great David Lynch, in which Mr Jim attempts to unravel the mysteries of a man who was a film maker, a painter, a writer, a musician, a weatherman, and a friend to woodpeckers...
Jan 19, 2025 · 38 min
HYPNOGORIA 276 - The Corman Poe Cycle Part IV
In a new chapter of this retrospective on the late great Roger Corman's cycle of Poe movie, we look at his third adaptation, The Premature Burial, which starred Ray Milland rather than Vincent Price and very nearly wasn't made by AIP at all.
Dec 31, 2024 · 13 min
MICROGORIA 126 - New Year by the Fireside
A cosy chat from the fireside and a happy New Year to all you out there in Listenerland!
Dec 24, 2024 · 21 min
DOOR 24 - Everybody's Waitin' for the Man with the Bag
Behind Door 24 we have A Christmas Horror Story and Krampus, Christmas horror films becoming a new annual tradition, and coming right up to date with Art the Clown getting festive in Terrifier 3
Dec 23, 2024 · 9 min
DOOR 23 - Silent Nights
Behind Door 23 we trapped by a hooded maniac in ATM and look at the surprising resurrection of the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise, the loose remake Silent Night
Dec 22, 2024 · 42 min
HYPNOGORIA 275 - Stigma
This year we have reached 1977, and the penultimate episode in the original run, and the last episode directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark. In a departure from the usual format Stigma brings us a brand new tale written especially for the screen by Clive Exton, a dark tale of mysterious megaliths and ancient evils.
Dec 22, 2024 · 11 min
DOOR 22 - You'd Better Watch Out…
Behind Door 22 we have a pair of movies from 2010 which both draw on the dark folklore of Father Christmas, with St Nicholas on the rampage in Sint from the Netherlands, while Finland resurrects an ancient Lapland Yuletide terrors in Rare Exports
Dec 21, 2024 · 9 min
DOOR 21 - I'll Be Home For Christmas
Behind Door 21 we have troubling getting home for Christmas in P2 (2007), trouble in the home in French shocker Inside (2007), and a less than happy New Year with The Children (2008)
Dec 20, 2024 · 11 min
DOOR 20 - Driving Home for Christmas
Behind Door 20 we learn why you should never take the scenic route when driving home for Christmas with Dead End (2003) and Wind Chill (2007), and also take a splattery ride on Santa's Slay (2005)
Dec 19, 2024 · 16 min
DOOR 19 - The Naughty List
Behind Door 19 we venture into the dark underworld of straight to video, where many terrible festive flicks lurk… Welcome t o the Christmas Horror Naughty List!
Dec 18, 2024 · 12 min
DOOR 18 - Unwelcome Gifts and Christmas Nightmares
Behind Door 18 we find Mickey Rooney as an evil toymaker in Silent Night, Deadly Part 5, wish Jack Skellington a merry Christmas and discover a nativity in black in Spain's Day of the Beast