Hypnogoria

In the second part of our Shapes in the Water podcast series, we look at the grandfather of all hybrid aquatic horrors, the weird tale of The Harbor-Master by Robert W Chambers!

In celebration of Guillermo del Toro's new opus The Shape of Water, Mr Jim Moon sets sail on a new new podcast series and submerges the Great Library of Dreams Bathysphere into the deeps to discover all manner of aquatic horrors. In this first episode, we explore the Gill-man's ancestry in mythology, legend and folklore, encountering kappas, nixes, nymphs, tritons and of course various mermaids and merfolk.

In this bonus mini-episode, we take a look at the new six part dark drama series Requiem. In a spoiler-free review, Mr Jim Moon examines what this new co-production from the BBC and Netflix has to offer! 

Mr Jim Moon once again invites you to take a seat by the fireside to hear another of the marvellous Stoneground Ghost Tales by EG Swain. And as it happens, this particular eerie story has a pleasing fusion of humour and romance, just in time for Valentine's Day...

In this episode Mr Jim Moon sets off once more into the weird and wonderful badlands of 1970s British children's TV. Following on from our previous episodes looking at SF and horror serials produced by HTV , this week we look at King of the Castle, a seven part series written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, the chaps who created K9 for Doctor Who and previously wrote the highly bizarre serial Sky for HTV. Would King of the Castle see them return to more family-friendly fare or did they top Sky and serve up a nightmarish fantasy tale that has been dubbed "Kafka for kids"? Clue: it might be the second one!

In the second part of our trip back to Hawkins, Jim and Odile continue their in-depth and spoiler-filled discussion of Stranger Things Season 2

This week we return to the 1980s and the little town of Hawkins to discover what mysteries we discovered there this year! Warning - we are opening the curiosity door and this is a spoiler filled discussion of Stranger Things 2!

Well dear friends, the Grim Reaper has been at it again! And so, Mr Jim calls you all to the fireside early for a quick bonus episode to pay tribute to the late great Peter Wyngarde who sadly passed away this week.

In an episode that didn't turn out so micro after all, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at the latest addition to Rebellion's treasury of British Comics range - Faceache Vol. 1 - The First 100 Scrunges, a glorious tome collecting the gleefully gruesome adventures of the boy with the bendable bonce as chronicled by the great Ken Reid.

A brand new episode for a new year and on the new hosts! Mr Jim Moon drops in for a quick catch-up to discussing what's coming in the year ahead on the show!

And now, the end is near… Yes, that’s all folks! At least from GeekPlanet Online! But fear not, we are moving house as it were and will soon be on Libsyn! http://hypnogoria.libsyn.com/  

We all know A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and have enjoyed the eerie tales of MR James, but why is Christmas associated with the telling of ghostly tales? In this epic show, Mr Jim Moon rovers far and wide, through snowy cemeteries and Christmases Past, to trace the true history of the tradition of telling ghost stories upon a winter's night!

In the last of our ghost stories for Christmas, Mr Jim Moon presents an eerie tale from Victorian writer, painter and poet Hume Nisbet, a rather creepy story set on a cold dark Christmas Eve…  

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon provides a hopefully illuminating commentary on the classic BBC TV adaptation of MR James's famous ghost story Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You My Lad. Directed by Dr Jonathan Miller, this short film version first screened in 1968 as part of the BBC art show Omnibus and would go one to inspire the creation of the BBC's classic annual series A Ghost Story for Christmas.  

In the next of our ghost stories for Christmas, Mr Jim Moon reads one of MR James’s most famous tales – the classic Oh Whistle and I’ll Come To You My Lad  

This week Mr Jim Moon wonders why in the name of Santa’s beard did he think it was a good idea to do a commentary track for notorious Christmas schlock horror Jack Frost… However he has a cunning plan to get through it…  

Well December is here once again, and as is traditional here at the Great Library of Dreams we are hosting a series of readings of ghost stories for Christmas. We begin this year's selection of festive chillers with a tale written by EG Swain, a good friend of the great MR James who was inspired to try his own hand at crafting ghostly tales. The result was a remarkable collection called the Stoneground Ghost Tales, which blended Jamesian frights with a touch of Wodehousian humour. In this story, the long suffering vicar of Stoneground, Mr Batchell, discovers something strange about one of the parish church's windows...   

In the first of our festive offerings, Mr Jim Moon goes in search of that merry wintry rogue, Jack Frost! Who is he and where did he come from? Is he just a winter's fairy tale? Do his origins lie in Norse mythology? And does he have any relation to Father Christmas? Wrap up warm, and come with me to find out!   

This Christmas, a certain quartet of scallywags are reforming to mark the 20th anniversary of their first broadcasts, and hence in this episode, MR Jim Moon is heading into deepest and darkest corners of the benighted little town of  Royston Vasey to uncover the true and twisted history of that now legendary comedy troupe,  the League of Gentlemen! 

Just a very quick update on the news that Geekplanet Online is closing down and what this means for the podcast!