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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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  • Nov 17, 2013 · 39 min

    HYPNOBOBS 133 – I Mars

    In this show, Mr Jim Moon takes us on a journey from the Great Library of Dreams to a forgotten corner of the planet Mars, as imagined by the late great Ray Bradbury.

  • Nov 3, 2013 · 1 hr 58 min

    HYPNOBOBS 132 – Dark Falls: Adventures in the Night

    In this epic length show, Mr Jim Moon embarks on some virtual ghost hunting and takes a look at a family of highly atmospheric and spooky adventure games from Jonathan Boakes and Matt Clark. We visit a haunted railway station in Dark Fall: The Journal (2002), investigate disappearances at Fetch Rock in Dark Fall: Lights Out (2004), uncover ancient Cornish mysteries in Barrow Hill (2006), hunt as missing girl in Dark Fall: Lost Souls (2009) and finally ignore all warnings to the curious and voyage to the not-so-quiet seaside town of Saxton to seek The Lost Crown (2008).

  • Oct 30, 2013 · 1 hr 7 min

    HYPNOBOBS 131 – The Count and other Terrors

    In an unplanned Halloween special (thanks to a sore throat), Mr Jim Moon delves into the audio archives to unearth a selection of terrors! The main feature is an abridged version of Dracula from the fondly remembered Ladybird Horror Classics, and then we have an assortment of weird and spooky verses from various literary greats including Edgar Allan Poe, Wilfred Owen, Ben Jonson, Winifred M Letts and JRR Tolkien.

  • Oct 19, 2013 · 1 hr 22 min

    HYPNOBOBS 130 – The Artist by Tom Baynham

    From the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon presents a reading of a brand new tale of the weird - The Artist by Tom Bayham, an eerie story in the traditions of MR James, Arthur Machen and Robert Aickman.

  • Oct 13, 2013 · 52 min

    HYPNOBOBS 129 – Room For One More

    Mr Jim Moon invites you once more to the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams for a reading of a classic ghost story by EF Benson – The Bus Conductor – and unravels the legends surrounding this eerie tale…

  • Oct 6, 2013 · 1 hr 26 min

    HYPNOBOBS 128 – The Secret Origins of The X Files 3

    In the third and final part of our retrospective series looking at the influences and origins of The X Files, Mr Jim Moon traces the history of UFOs and alien visitors on the screen, delving into movie serials, the Shaver mystery, saucer-inspired 1950's SF movies, TV mystery series such as In Search of... and Project UFO, and later big screen outings such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

  • Sep 9, 2013 · 57 min

    HYPNOBOBS 125 – The Secret Origins of the X Files Part 1

    Twenty years ago, on the 10th of September 1993, a new TV show aired that would become a cult phenomena and a SF legend. That show was The X Files, and in this special anniversary episode Mr Jim Moon explores the various inspirations for Chris Carter's iconic TV series, tracing the influence of Kolchak The Night Stalker, The Avengers and Twin Peaks.

  • Aug 24, 2013 · 1 hr 9 min

    HYPNOBOBS 124 – He Is Legend Part 5

    In the final part of our epic Richard Matheson retrospective, Mr Jim Moon examines the great writers' later works and adaptations. We discuss Bid Time Return which became the movie Somewhere in Time, travel beyond the veil of death with What Dreams May Come, open The Box, and round off with A Stir of Echoes.

  • Aug 11, 2013 · 46 min

    HYPNOBOBS 123 – He Is Legend Part 4: A Trip to Hell House

    In this fourth part of our series of tributes to the late great Richard Matheson, Mr Jim Moon takes a trip to the infamous Belasco residence, better known to the world as Hell House. We discuss the original 1971 novel and its movie incarnation Legend of Hell House (1973).

  • Aug 4, 2013 · 1 hr 9 min

    HYPNOBOBS 122 – He Is Legend Part 3

    In the third part of our epic tribute to the late Richard Matheson, Mr Jim Moon takes a trip through the televisual terrors conjured by the great writer in the 1970s. We look at the early Spielberg feature Duel (1971), Carl Kolchak's run-ins with The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973), and discuss his many collaborations with the legendary Dan Curtis such as Trilogy of Terror (1975) and Dead of Night (1977).

  • Jul 21, 2013 · 48 min

    HYPNOBOBS 121 – He is Legend Part 2

    In the second part of our tribute to the late great Richard Matheson, Mr Jim Moon details what the legendary author was up to in the 1960s, discussing his work at AIP such as the Roger Corman Poe adaptations, British chiller Night of the Eagle (1962) and his work for Hammer - the psychochiller Fanatic (1965) and Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out (1968).

  • Jun 7, 2013 · 1 hr 34 min

    HYPNOBOBS 118 – The Lesser Seen Cushing

    In the second of our celebrations of the centennial of Peter Cushing, Mr Jim Moon explores a selection of his less well-known works. We have The Gorgon (1964) from Hammer, The Skull (1967) from Amicus, The Blood Beast Terror (1968) and The Creeping Flesh (1973) from Tigon, Horror Express (1972), and The Ghoul (1975) and Legend of the Werewolf (1975) from Tyburn.

  • May 26, 2013 · 1 hr 28 min

    HYPNOBOBS 117 – A Tribute To Peter Cushing

    To mark the centennial of his birth, Mr Jim Moon pays tribute to a true legend of a cinema, a man who played Baron Frankenstein, Van Helsing, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who, who starring in countless Hammer and Amicus horror movies and even Star Wars too – the late, the great Peter Cushing!