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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 825
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
HYPNOGORIA 75 – Day of the Triffids Part IV
In this addition to our history of the Triffids, Mr Jim Moon rounds up some triffid apocrypha. We discuss some comic book adaptations of John Wyndham's classic SF novel, and take an in-depth look at …
MICROGORIA 48 – The Dracula File
As promised, here's an in-depth review of the new graphic novel The Dracula File from Rebellion. Collecting together all the episodes from classic British horror comic Scream, plus various strips tha…
GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 37 – Ghost Hunt
Just in time for Halloween, Mr Jim Moon presents a special episode – a radio play that tells the tale of a most disturbing haunting, adapted from the classic chiller, Ghost Hunt by HR Wakefield.
HYPNOGORIA 74 – The Origins of Halloween Part V
Continuing in our annual series on the history of the spookiest night of the year, Mr Jim Moon takes at a look Halloween in the mid-twentieth century. We talks about the works of Ray Bradbury, the ho…
MICROGORIA 47 – Not for the Nervous
In this episode, Mr Jim Moon delves once more into the world of horror comics. In this show we review the second volume of Leah Moore and John Reppion's MR James adaptations Ghost Stories of An Antiq…
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 Mons…
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…
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 tel…
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!
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…
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 Gre…
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 …
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…
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…
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 th…
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 th…
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, Cr…
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…
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 th…
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.