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
CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES THIRD NIGHT: The Step by EF Benson
It’s the third night of ghostly tales at the Great Library of Dreams. Tonight Mr Jim Moon takes his place by the fireside to deliver a tale from EF Benson that will take us to Egypt and takes place u…
CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES SECOND NIGHT: The Red Room by HG Wells
Welcome to our second ghost story for Christmas! Tonight Mr Jim Moon reads The Red Room by HG Wells, often claimed to be one of the most frightening tales ever written!
CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES FIRST NIGHT – Jerry Bundler by WW Jacobs
This Christmas we are are hosting four nights of ghost stories from the Great Library of Dreams. Tonight we begin with Mr Jim Moon reading a festive ghost story about festive ghost stories, Jerry Bun…
HYPNOGORIA 06 – A Merry Christmas with World-Famous Artists
In the second of this year's Christmas specials, Mr Jim Moon mounts an assault on the north face of the drinks cabinet and explores the world of festive music. We unwrap the history of the Christmas …
MICROGORIA 08 – Christmas Annuals
In the first of our festive shows this year, Mr Jim Moon searches the Great Library of Dreams for books given as gifts on many a Christmas Past, and uncovers the history and wonders of the British Ch…
TOMEGORIA 02 – The Boy With The Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick
In this episode Odile and Jim explore the strange world of Landfall, a realm of crumbling castles, strange mutations, sinister scheming and swordplay galore! Yes, we are discussing The Boy With the P…
HYPNOGORIA 05 – Zombi Zombi Part V
In this episode of the Zombi Zombi series, Mr Jim Moon heads to 1970s Spain to explore one of the legendary Eurohorror franchises. Created by director Amando de Ossorio, The Blind Dead saga is a quar…
MICROGORIA 07 – 30 Years in the Box of Delights
On the 21st of November in 1984, BBC One screened the first episode of a lavish television adaptation of John Masefield's children's book The Box of Delights - a series that has gone on to be become …
MICROGORIA 06: The Story of An Evening With Boris Karloff and His Friends
Mr Jim Moon takes a trip into the Vinyl Vault at the Great Library of Dreams to tell the tale of a most seminal spooky record beloved of the monster kids of the ’60s which paid homage to the Universa…
TOMEGORIA 001 – The Girl With All The Gifts by MR Carey
In this inaugural show, our hosts take their chairs by the fireside to discuss the recently released tome The Girl With All The Gifts - a highly impressive post apocalypse novel actually penned by fa…
HYPNOGORIA 004 – The Origins of Halloween
In an epic length show, Mr Jim Moon traverses the centuries in search of the origins of Halloween. Along the way we'll investigate the festival of All Hallows, the pagan rites of the Celts at Samhain…
MICROGORIA 05 – Fun To Know About Ghosts
Mr Jim Moon once more finds a childhood favourite lurking on the shelves in the Great Library of Dreams - a tome by one Sean Richards who turned out to be none other than legendary editor and antholo…
HYPNOGORIA 003 – Horror Double Bills 3
In the third and final part of our series of double features in horror, Mr Jim Moon examines the history of the late night horror double bill on TV, discussing the likes of Shock Theater, horror host…
WITLESS SPECIAL – The Transformers Audio Logs
BONUS EPISODE!!!! In the latest episode of WITLESS FOR THE DEFENCE – Case 16 – Michael Bay’s Transformers films are in the dock. And Mr Jim Moon somewhat foolishly decided to watch all four… in a sin…
MICROGORIA 04 – All About Monsters
Time travelling once more on the black batwings of nostalgia, Mr Jim Moon enthusiastically rambles about World of the Unknown: All About Monsters published by Usborne back in 1978. Swearing, over-exc…
MICROGORIA 03: - In Search of a Ghost
Dipping once again into his battered copy of The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales, Mr Jim Moon unearths a ghostly tale that first aired on Radio 4. Exactly what did Mr Eric Roberts encoun…
HYPNOGORIA 002 – Horror Double Bills Part II
In the second part of our investigations of horror double bills, Mr Jim Moon details the second wave of the Universal Monsters, the chillers from RKO conjured up by Val Lewton, charts the building of…
MICROGORIA 02 – The Wish-Hounds
In this episode, Mr Jim Moon reminisces about a favourite old anthology of ghost stories The House of the Nightmare and Other Eerie Tales edited by Kathleen Lines (Puffin 1970) and explores a real li…
HYPNOGORIA 001 – Horror Double Bills Part I
In the first episode of our new show HYPNOGORIA, Mr Jim Moon delves through the cinema archives of the Great Library of the Dreams to unearth the history of everyone’s favourite two for one – the hor…
MICROGORIA 01 – Nyarlathotep by HP Lovecraft
To celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the great HP Lovecraft, Mr Jim Moon delves into the Cthulhu Mythos section of the Great Library of Dreams to bring you the prose poem Nyarlathotep.