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
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
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
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.
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 198…
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 o…
MICROGORIA 13 – Horror Movies by Alan Frank
Mr Jim Moon uncovers an ancient tome that was a whole generations introduction to horror history, an indispensable handbook detailing silent terrors, Universal monsters, Hammer horrors and much much …
TOMEGORIA 06 – Clovenhoof
What would happen if the Devil was sacked? And exiled to live in Birmingham? Odile and Jim find out in the comedy horror novel Clovenhoof by Heide Goody and Ian Grant! As well as discussing the book,…
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS – The Invisible Man by GK Chesterton
This week we catch up once again with that most unusual of amateur detectives, GK Chesterton’s Father Brown. In this episode, Mr Jim Moon presents a reading of one of the little priest’s most celebra…
HYPNOGORIA 09 – A Tribute to Sir Terry Pratchett
This week we had the sad news that Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved author and creator of the Discworld, had passed away. In this episode Mr Jim Moon pays tribute to the man and his work, looking back o…
MICROGORIA 12 – Deathtrap Dungeon
Mr Jim Moon, armed only with a sword, backpack, leather armour and a Potion of Nostalgia, voyages to the little town of Fang in Southern Allansia to enter the Trial of Champions. Wielding his mighty …
TOMEGORIA 05 – Three Winter Ghosts by Gary Sargent
In this episode Odile and Jim keep an eye on the temperature and keep a wary ear open for the sound of dripping blood as they discuss the shivers and spectres found in Three Winter Ghosts by Mr Gary …
HYPNOGORIA 08 – The Origins of Valentine’s Day
In a special surprise episode, Mr Jim Moon breaks out the debunking shotgun and delves into the mysteries of St Valentine’s Day, attempting to sort the fact from the fiction about the origins of this…
MICROGORIA 11 – All About UFOS
Completing the trilogy of World of the Unknown books, Mr Jim Moon, in a predictably over-excitable fashion, voyages back to the 1970s to take a look at All About UFOs (Usborne 1977).
TOMEGORIA 04 – The Haunted by Bentley Little
In this episode Odile and Jim go and visit a most benighted residence, with a discussion of Bentley Little’s The Haunted (2012).
FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS – Diary of a Madman
In this episode, Mr Jim Moon discovers a lost audio treasure in the dusty archives of the Great Library of Dreams – a rare recording of comedy legend Kenneth Williams performing an adaptation of Niko…
MICROGORIA 10 – The Truth About Jenny Greenteeth
In the first of two shows this week, Mr Jim Moon presents a bonus episode, giving you all a taste of his blog series Folklore on Friday. In this show we cover legends of fearsome dwellers in the dept…
HYPNOGORIA 07 – A Tribute to Brian Clemens
Mr Jim Moon pays tribute to a true legend who recently passed away, the late great Brian Clemens, scriptwriter extraordinaire who gave us The Avengers, The Professionals and many many more, plus work…
TOMEGORIA 03 – Prospero’s Mirror
In our third episode, Odile and Jim investigate the strange case of Prospero’s Mirror – a weird tale that is part ghost story and part historical mystery and features the great MR James as a lead cha…
MICROGORIA 09 – New Year Waffling
Just a quick little show to say hello and tell what going on with the podcast and what’s coming up in the New Year!
CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES FINAL NIGHT: A School Story by MR James
At last it’s Christmas Eve, and for one final time we gather round the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams. As is traditional, our Christmas Eve story comes from the great MR James, and Mr Jim Mo…