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 – After Dark in the Playing Fields
It’s a balmy summer’s night in the gardens of the Great Library of Dreams, and the spirit of the season moves Mr Jim Moon read a highly appropriate tale from the great MR James. Afterwards we discuss…
MICROBOBS 06 – Dead Letter Office
In this mini-cast, Mr Jim Moon braves undead postmen to visit the Dead Letter Office in the Great Library of Dreams and finally get round to catching up with some listener feedback!
HYPNOBOBS 150 Part II – Danse Macabre
In the second half of this musical marathon, an even drunker Mr Jim Moon continues his journey through the dark side of rock, charting the influence of horror, death and the Devil through a variety …
HYPNOBOBS 150 Part I – The Devil Has All the Best Tunes
To mark the 150th episode of Hypnobobs, Mr Jim Moon embarks on an epic journey through rock and pop, tracing the history of horror, the occult, voodoo, and Old Nick Himself in popular music. And all …
MICROBOBS 05 – All About Ghosts
In this minicast, Mr Jim Moon once again dusts off a spooky childhood favourite. This time we talking about a volume in Usborne’s late 1970s series World of the Unknown, the haunting volume All About…
MICROBOBS 04 – Ghosts, Ghouls and other Horrors
In this edition of Microbobs, Mr Jim Moon waxes lyrical about an old beloved paperback tome of spectres, phantoms and other things that go bump in the night, Ghosts, Ghouls & Other Horrors by Bernhar…
HYPNOBOBS 149 – Big Bugs II
Mr Moon once again explores the world of the big bugs, examining classic giant insect rampages from the ’50s such as Them!, Jack Arnold’s Tarantula (1956), Bert I Gordon’s Earth Vs The Spider (1958) …
MICROBOBS 03 – Excavating the Barrows
In this edition of Microbobs, Mr Jim Moon looks at the dread undead horror, the wight, delving into folklore and fiction, and concluding with a reading of the Barrow-wight’s song from Lord of the Rin…
MICROBOBS 02 – Witchcraft with Mr Price
As it’s the anniversary of the birth of the legendary Vincent Price, Mr Jim Moon tracks down the great gentleman of horror to hear all about witchcraft and demonology!
MICROBOBS 01 – Oh My Godzilla
In what was intended to be the first of a new strand - Microbobs - that brings short, quick casts between the main show, Mr Jim Moon completely fails in that objective and talks for roughly a hour an…
HYPNOBOBS 148 – Favourite Monsters – Big Bugs
Mr Jim Moon once again delves into his big book of Favourite Monsters and explores the world of the big bugs, tracing the history and evolution of the giant insect rampage, and discussing the seminal…
HYPNOBOBS 147 and a Half – Quoth the Rathbone
This week a sore throated Mr Jim Moon is winding up the old gramophone in the Great Library of Dreams once more and delving once again in the mysterious vinyl lurking in cobwebbed crates and unearths…
HYPNOBOBS #147 – Are You One of the Frightened
This week Mr Jim Moon is winding up the old gramophone in the Great Library of Dreams to deliver a spooky something or two from the voice of one of the original masters of horror, Mr Boris Karloff.
HYPNOBOBS 146 – The Natural History of the Batman Part 10
Pin back your ears Bat-fans! In the tenth part of our Bat-history, Mr Jim Moon continues his exploration of the Caped Crusader's adventures in audio, detailing the slew of vinyl that appeared in the …
HYPNOBOBS 145 – Zombi Zombi Part IV
In this installment of the Zombi Zombi series, Mr Jim Moon traces some of the more dubious branches of the Living Dead family tree, looking at Zombie 4 and Zombie 5, and then going on to talk about Z…
HYPNOBOBS 144 – The Unnamable on Screen
In this episode Mr Jim Moon looks at various screen versions of HP Lovecraft's The Unnamable. First we have a matching pair of movies from director Jean-Paul Oullette - HP Lovecraft's The Unnamable (…
HYPNOBOBS 143 – The Unnameable by HP Lovecraft
This week we are delving into the eldritch worlds of HP Lovecraft once more, with Mr Jim Moon recounting and discussing Lovecraft’s second tale featuring his recurring hero Randolph Carter, The Unnam…
HYPNOBOBS 142 – The Natural History of the Batman Part 9
Yes at long last we are returning to Gotham City for another helping of Bat-history. In this episode, Mr Jim Moon explores Batman on the radio, looking at the attempts in the 1940s and 1950s to launc…
HYPNOBOBS 141 – The Casebook of Carnacki The Ghost-Finder #8: The Haunted Jarvee
This week in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon once again opens up the casebook of Mr Thomas Carnacki, the 20th century's greatest occult detective. In this penultimate investigation, as chron…
HYPNOBOBS 140 – A New Year
It's a New Year, and Mr Jim Moon selects some highlights from the past year. We discuss the world of the small press, review Ramsey Campbell's The Last Revelation of Gla'aki from PS Publishing, bend …