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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Sep 30, 2012 · 1 hr 6 min
HYPNOBOBS 96 – Captain Jetlag's Random Movie Round-up
This week, a just back from his holibobs Mr Jim Moon proudly presents Captain Jetlag's Random Movie Round-up! Featuring extended rambling and aural bollocks on Battleship! Sherlock Holmes – Game of Shadows! Chronicle! Lawless! ParaNorman! The Adjustment Bureau! And Real Steel! There's be laughter! There'll be tears! There's be random tips for travellers! And blowing a whole years worth of exclamation marks!!!!!!
Sep 21, 2012 · 1 hr 14 min
HYPNOBOBS 95 – The Casebook of Carnacki The Ghost Finder #6: The Horse of the Invisible
By the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon once again opens up the Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder. This time round, Mr William Hope Hodgson recounts Carnacki's investigation into a most troubling family curse and the manifestation of an exceedingly malign equine spectre…
Sep 14, 2012 · 1 hr 14 min
HYPNOBOBS 94 – Night's Black Agents
This week a busy Mr Moon delves into the archives of old time radio horror. We talk of the legendary Man in Black and the classic series Appointment With Fear, and heard an episode of its parent show Suspense which features Mr Henry Hull, star of The Werewolf of London in an audio adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit And The Pendulum. Then we visit old London town to visit Orson Welles in The Black Museum and hear of the crimes of John George Haigh, a man dubbed both The Acid Bath Murderer and The Vampire Killer!
Sep 9, 2012 · 1 hr 49 min
HYPNOBOBS 93 – A Beginners Guide To Judge Dredd
This week Mr Jim Moon presents a highly zarjaz Beginners Guide To Judge Dredd. In this thrill-powered episode, we'll uncover the history of British comics, detail the creation of 2000 AD, explore the the world of Judge Dredd, and finally round off with a spoiler-free review of the brand new movie Dredd 3D! Miss it at your peril grexnixes!
Sep 3, 2012 · 1 hr 23 min
HYPNOBOBS 92 – The Hunt for the Croglin Vampire
This week, Mr Jim Moon embarks on a perilous journey to hunt down the infamous Croglin Vampire. During the course of our investigations into this notorious case of British vampirism, along the way we'll meet such luminaries as occult scholar Montague Summers, the legendary Man In Black himself Valentine Dyall, and Sir Francis Varney, hero of epic Penny Dreadful Varney the Vampire! The truth is indeed out there... and it has fangs!
Aug 26, 2012 · 1 hr 10 min
HYPNOBOBS 91 – Favourite Monsters: Vampires
This week, Mr Jim Moon dusts off the great tome marked 'Favourite Childhood Monsters' and explores the world of the vampire. We examine the legend of the Croglin Vampire in depth, and along the way discuss the diverse nature of the undead, the difference between fictional blood-suckers such as Count Dracula and the actual vampires of folklore, and somewhat bizarrely, the wrappers of 1970s sweets...
Aug 19, 2012 · 57 min
HYPNOBOBS 90 – The Queer Feet by GK Chesterton
This week in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon delves into the case-files of that most unusual and unlikely detective, that little priest Father Brown. This time we hear the curious case of The Queer Feet as recounted by Mr GK Chesterton.
Aug 12, 2012 · 1 hr 56 min
HYPNOBOBS 89 – The Natural History of the Batman Part 8
Mr Jim Moon continues his survey of Batman at the movies, examining Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997). Plus there's bonus swearing, I mean reviewing with a look at Catwoman (2004) and the shocking revelation of who really killed the 90's Bat-franchise…
Aug 5, 2012 · 1 hr 31 min
HYPNOBOBS 88 – The Natural History of the Batman Part 7
In the latest installment of Bat-history, Mr Jim Moon traces the long road, that stretched out over decades, that brought Batman to the big screen. And in this episode, we discuss and dissect the the fruits of that long journey Tim Burton's Batman (1989), starring Michael Keaton in the eponymous role and Jack Nicholson as the Joker.
Jul 27, 2012 · 1 hr 10 min
HYPNOBOBS 87 – How To Get Ahead In Ghost Hunting Part II
This week we once again turn the floor over to Mr Gary 'Horsehead' Stead for another chapter of his memoirs – How To Get Ahead In Ghost Hunting! In this second part, entitled The Attic chills are guaranteed! And afterwards Mr Jim Moon talks a little on the subject on EVP and foolishly tries out a live experiment…
Jul 14, 2012 · 2 hr 34 min
HYPNOBOBS 86 – Children of the Wolf Man
Concluding our history of werewolvery, Mr Jim Moon tracks the progeny of the Universal Wolf Man, tracing the influence of Mr Larry Talbot on lycanthropic cinema. Under the light of the silvery moon, we hunt down The Mad Monster, The Undying Monster and The Wolves of Malveneur, hear the Cry of the Werewolf and witness the Return of the Vampire, before uncovering his descendants are alive and well in the modern age in the shape of An American Werewolf in London and The Wolf Man remake.
Jul 7, 2012 · 1 hr 43 min
HYPNOBOBS 85 – Even a Man Who is Pure in Heart
Continuing what is turning into Werewolf Month here in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon rambles at great length about the 1941 Universal classic The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney Jnr. Along the way we learn about the history of the Universal Monsters and just where the werewolf's vulnerability to silver actually comes from...
Jul 1, 2012 · 1 hr 4 min
HYPNOBOBS 84 – On-Air Wolf
This week Mr Jim Moon delving into the audio archives of the Great Library of Dreams to bring you two contrasting werewolf tales from the eerie world of old time radio! First we have The Werewolf from The Weird Circle, a radio play based upon The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Captain Frederick Marryat and then W Is For Werewolf from Dark Fantasy.
Jun 24, 2012 · 1 hr 39 min
HYPNOBOBS 83 – Birth of the Werewolf
Continuing our explorations of the history and mystery of the werewolf, Mr Jim Moon recounts the earliest manifestations of werewolvery in cinema and attends the birth of the modern lycanthrope with a visit to Universal's The Werewolf of London (1935) starring Henry Hull.
Jun 17, 2012 · 1 hr 21 min
HYPNOBOBS 82 – The Wolf At The Door
Continuing our investigations in werewolvery, Mr Jim Moon traces the development and metamorphoses of werewolf lore down the ages, from the shamanic mists at the dawn of time to the blood-soaked pages of the Penny Dreadfuls!
Jun 10, 2012 · 1 hr 3 min
HYPNOBOBS 81 – Radio Free Bradbury
To mark the passing of legendary author Mr Ray Bradbury, Mr Jim Moon raids the audio archives of the Great Library of Dreams to unearth old time radio adaptations of two of his classic tales, 'Kaleidoscope' from The Illustrated Man and 'Mars is Heaven' aka 'The Third Expedition' from The Martian Chronicles.
Jun 2, 2012 · 2 hr 32 min
HYPNOBOBS 80 – The Origins of Alien
With the long awaited Prometheus, Ridley Scott's much anticipated return to the universe of Alien, finally unleashed on our screens, Mr Jim Moon heads for deepest space to explore the origins of that most seminal movie. We are joined on this epic voyage by Mr Lee Medcalf and Mr Darren Barnard of The Black Dog podcast, and explore three similarly seminal movies that are said to have inspired both Scott and screen writer Dan O'Bannon - spaced out cult classic Dark Star (1974), vintage scifi shocker It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958), and Mario Bava's interstellar gothic Planet of the Vampires (1965).
May 27, 2012 · 1 hr 53 min
HYPNOBOBS 79 – An Introduction To Werewolvery
Mr Jim Moon ventures out into the light of the full moon to investigate the legend of the werewolf. As well as some chat about what the Wolf-Man means to us, we have readings of two classic lycanthropic tales –Gabriel-Ernest by Saki and High Moon by Tim Stout.
May 20, 2012 · 1 hr 25 min
HYPNOBOBS 78 – HG Well's Martians
In something of a stop-gap episode, Mr Jim Moon rambles about the marvelous Martians of HG Wells and resurrects from the audio archives of the Great Library of the Dreams the infamous Mercury Theatre on the Air radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds masterminded by the legendary Orson Welles.
May 12, 2012 · 57 min
HYPNOBOBS 77 – The Horror of the Heights
This week in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon delves into the weird fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with a reading of his seminal tale The Horror of the Heights.