Hypnogoria

Mr Jim Moon reads one of the all time classic tales of terror - The Monkey's Paw by WW Jacobs

In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a look at the recent Netflix horror release Bird Box starring Sandra Bullock. In the first section of the show, we have a spoiler-free look at this movie before taking off the blindfolds in the second half to head down river into spoiler-territory, delving into the history of the movie and its influences. 

Appearing in the British comedy horror comic Shiver and Shake, every week a new mutant monstrosity escaped the pen of Ken Reid. And now the crazed creatures from this marvellous menagerie has been rounded and collected together in a handsome new tome from Rebellion - Ken Reid's Creepy Creations. Mr Jim Moon explains why you need this essential monster spotter's handbook on your shelves!

In the first show for a new year, Mr Jim Moon takes us back to the sleepy parish of Stoneground, where EG Swain has another eerie tale to tell, one that occurred upon a cold and frosty January night...

In the last episode of the festive season, and indeed of the year, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at what makes a good Christmas ghost story. We have a chat about the latest BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, The Dead Room starring Simon Callow and written and directed by Mark Gatiss, which aired this Christmas Eve. And then we hear from the master of the ghost story himself, MR James, with three readings of various essays and articles where he outlined his own rules for writing ghost stories.

It's Christmas Eve, and in the spirit of the great MR James, Mr Jim Moon invites you to the fireside for some chit-chat and to tell a ghostly tale of his own...

In this special episode, Mr Jim Moon continues his investigations into the tradition of telling ghost stories for Christmas. While last year we traced the origins of the Christmas ghost story in literature, in this show we hunt down the ghosts of folklore and local legend and discover what spirits walk abroad at Yuletide.

In our fourth ghost story for Christmas, we take a trip away for the Yuletide to go stay in a country house, with good company, good friends, lots of snow and the appearance of the family ghost...

Christmas is a time for party games, however this one has a most unusual twist to it... 

In the second of our readings of ghost stories for Christmas, we voyage back to Victorian London for a tale of a Christmas party, a peculiar wager, and a night in a most notorious haunted house... in Number Ninety by BM Croker

Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, and originally shown on Christmas Eve 1971, The Stalls of Barchester was the very first of the BBC's much loved Ghost Story for Christmas series. Mr Jim hands round the mulled wine and mince pies, and fires up the old DVD player to give a commentary on this televisual incarnation of the famous ghost story by MR James.

We begin our annual readings of classic ghost stories for Christmas with a tale from the great MR James - The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral 

In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a trip to one of the most famous British haunted houses of the 1970s! Haunting childrens' TV and created by Richard Carpenter, The Ghosts of Motley Hall delivered three seasons of spooky sitcom action and wasn't above delivering the occasional bit of televisual terror. We've got the keys from the caretaker Mr Gudgin, so let's see if Motley Hall is still haunted...

Christmas is coming and this festive season there's a tinsel bedecked ton of treats coming up from the Great Library of Dreams!  And here's the full details of our ghostly Christmas line-up!  Also check out our advent calendar at www.hypnogoria.com  

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon has some recommendations for some spooky reading for the coming festive season - a trio of ghostly graphic novels from Mr Thom Burgess - Malevolents Click Click, The Eyrie and Hallows Fell. 

In the final part of our long running saga investigating horrors from the deep, Mr Jim Moon nets a shoal of movies that owe something to The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft. The movies are Island of the Fishmen AKA Screamers (1979), Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Dagon (2001), Cthulhu (2005) and Cold Skin (2017)

In a special episode Mr Jim Moon remember the legendary Stan Lee, and reflects on his truly Marvel-ous achievements! 

This episode we talk a look at a new book from Stephen Volk - the man who created Ghostwatch! In The Dark Masters Trilogy we will encounter four iconic figures from the world of the weird and the macabre. In Whitstable we meet with Peter Cushing, while in Leytonstone we have a rendezvous with a young Alfred Hitchcock. And finally at Netherwood, we will witness a strange meeting between Dennis Wheatley and notorious occultist Aleister Crowley.

In this episode a rather creeped out Mr Jim Moon attempts to gather his thoughts together on the new  movie Possum which was directed by Matt Holness, who previously created the much beloved horror spoof TV series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. However Possum is no laughing matter... UPDATE - Possum is now available for streaming on Amazon too!

In this mini-episode, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at a new short film, based on a story by R Chetwynd-Hayes, which appeared on Amazon Prime on Hallowe'en night - Keep the Gaslight Burning