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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Aug 23, 2015 · 45 min
MICROGORIA 18 – Usborne Supernatural Guides Vampires, Werewolves & Demons
This week Mr Jim Moon is once more apprehended loitering in Memory Lane as he embarks on a new three part odyssey into horror nostalgia with a look back at the first tome in the Usborne Supernatural Guides series – Vampires, Werewolves & Demons (1979)
Aug 19, 2015 · 19 min
MICROGORIA – A Call from the Deep
A short info-cast in which Mr Jim Moon details his newly launched Patreon campaign
Aug 16, 2015 · 59 min
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 11 – The Hanging of Alfred Wadham by EF Benson
This week we return to the cosy fireside of the Great Library of Dreams, where Mr Jim Moon has a fascinating tale to tell, and a fascinating tale to tell about it. As requested by a listener, we hear EF Benson's eerie classic The Hanging of Alfred Wadham and learn of the troubles the great Roald Dahl had trying to bring it to the screen...
Aug 9, 2015 · 1 hr 21 min
TOMEGORIA 08 – Rivers of London by Ben Aaronvitch
Ghosts, gods and good old fashioned detective work await Odile and Jim in Mr Ben Aaronvitch's celebrated urban fantasy Rivers of London
Aug 4, 2015 · 2 hr 21 min
HYPNOGORIA 17 – A Tribute to Sir Christopher Lee Part V
In this final part of this epic series, Mr Jim Moon charts Sir Christopher Lee's career from the 1980s onwards. We look at movies as diverse as Arabian Adventure, The Return of Captain Invincible, The Howling II, and The House of Long Shadows, and see how his star rose again once more with Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, how he embraced heavy metal in his '90s, and in general became a living legend.
Jul 26, 2015 · 1 hr 21 min
MICROGORIA 17 – Leeviathan 99
In a stop-gap episode, Mr Jim Moon raids the archives of the Great Library of Dreams to uncover the tale of Leviathan '99 - a 1960s experimental radio play. This space age sonic drama was a riff on Moby Dick penned by the late great Ray Bradbury and starred Sir Christopher Lee as an obsessed comet-hunting captain on a space vessel...
Jul 19, 2015 · 2 hr 7 min
HYPNOGORIA 16 – A Tribute to Sir Christopher Lee Part IV
Continuing our epic journey through the life and works of Sir Christopher Lee, Mr Jim Moon charts his continuing work with Hammer and Amicus, looking at I, Monster (1971) and To the Devil a Daughter (1976), and examines the only movie Lee made himself, Charlemagne Productions' Nothing But The Night (1972). We pay a visit to The Wicker Man (1973), indulge in some Bondage with The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), and hear how Lee broke the horror typecasting in movies such as The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970).
Jul 12, 2015 · 33 min
MICROGORIA 15 – A Tribute to Sir Christopher Lee – the Intermission
This episode we take a little sidestep in our journey through the life and works of the late great Sir Christopher Lee. Mr Jim Moon takes a back at the tradition of having hosts with our horror stories, and explores the various volumes of weird fiction that Sir Christopher Lee hosted and co-edited with Peter Haining and Michael Parry.
Jul 4, 2015 · 2 hr 2 min
HYPNOGORIA 15 – A Tribute to Sir Christopher Lee Part III
Mr Jim Moon continues his journey through the long career of Sir Christopher Lee, exploring is most productive period the 1970s, where he made numerous films for Hammer, Amicus, and AIP, and worked with film-makers such as Terence Fisher, Freddie Francis, Jess Franco and Harry Alan Towers. We sample the psycho-chiller Scream of Fear (1961), investigate the case of Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), go marauding with the Devil Ship Pirates (1964), dodge The Gorgon (1964), gaze into the Face of Fu Manchu (1965), visit Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965), meet Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966), and find out what's inside the The Oblong Box (1969). And of course we run into Count Dracula many many times...
Jun 28, 2015 · 1 hr 34 min
HYPNOGORIA 14 – A Tribute to Sir Christopher Lee Part II
Mr Jim Moon pays tribute to the great Sir Christopher Lee with the first part of what will be a lengthy retrospective of his life and works. In the first part of this epic journey through a career that spanned seven decades, we learn of Lee's early life, military career and his early forays into acting. We discuss his involvement with the birth of Hammer horror and friendship with Peter Cushing, looking at his roles in Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll. We look at his non horror works such as Hound of the Baskervilles and Terror of the Tongs, learn of his close relationship with Boris Karloff and the movie they starred in together Corridors of Blood, and round off with another black and white chiller City of the Dead AKA Horror Hotel which was effectively the birth of Amicus.
Jun 21, 2015 · 1 hr 44 min
HYPNOGORIA 13 – A Tribute to Sir Christopher Lee Part I – Unearthing Dracula
To mark the passing of Sir Christopher Lee, we begin a series of shows celebrating the life and works of a true legend of cinema and horror. In our first episode, Mr Jim Moon goes on the trail of a lost Dracula, and uncovers the tale of a long forgotten audio version of Bram Stoker's classic narrated by Sir Christopher Lee and its links to one of the first graphic novels The Illustrated Dracula from 1966
Jun 14, 2015 · 37 min
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 10 – The Empire of the Necromancers
Mr Jim Moon returns once again to the weird and wonderful writings of Clark Ashton Smith, and presents a fantastic tale from the far future, a legend from the exotic land of Zothique, the last continent on a dying Earth basking under a dwindling red sun.
Jun 7, 2015 · 33 min
MICROGORIA 14 – Inside Berberian Sound Studio
In this episode Mr Jim Moon investigates the strange case of Berberian Sound Studio in which a sound engineer played by Toby Jones descends into a world of madness while working on the soundtrack for an Italian giallo movie.
May 31, 2015 · 57 min
HYPNOGORIA 12 – Dark Entries – An Introduction to Robert Aickman
In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a journey into the strange stories of Robert Aickman, exploring the life and works of this modern master of weird fiction, and taking a look inside his first collection of tales Dark Entries
May 24, 2015 · 1 hr 4 min
TOMEGORIA 07 – The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
Odile and Jim delve into the mysteries of The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen, tracing the influence of this weird fiction classic and unraveling its hidden horrors…
May 19, 2015 · 1 hr 23 min
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS – The Great God Pan Part II
By the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon presents the second and final part of his complete and unabridged reading of Arthur Machen's classic novel of the weird The Great God Pan
May 17, 2015 · 1 hr 30 min
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS – The Great God Pan Part I
By the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon presents a special two part podcast – a complete and unabridged reading of Arthur Machen's classic novel of the weird The Great God Pan
May 3, 2015 · 29 min
MICROGORIA 14 – Censors and Sensibilty
In this week's show, Mr Jim Moon muses on the subject of censorship in film, asking what makes a horror film a horrible film and pondering how we handle extreme cinema and film classification.
Apr 26, 2015 · 1 hr 42 min
HYPNOGORIA 11 – The Woman in Black Part II
This week we return to Eel Marsh House to see if Mr Jim Moon has survived his night there... And if he has, there's be a discussion of the BBC radio versions of The Woman in Black, the scarifying 1989 TV movie adapted by Nigel Kneale, Hammer Films' big screen incarnation starring Daniel Radcliffe, and a look at the sequel The Woman in Black: Angel of Death in the form of a novel by Martyn Waites and a movie by Tom Harper.
Apr 19, 2015 · 53 min
HYPNOGORIA 10 – The Woman In Black
In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes up residence in the ill-starred Eel Marsh House to begin a two part investigation in the terrifying hauntings there. In this first episode, we discover the origins of Susan Hill's classic novel The Woman in Black, and discover how this dread spectre has manifested as a long running West End play at the Fortune Theatre in London through the medium of Mr Stephen Mallatratt.