Hypnogoria

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  

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.  

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 1989 TV movie adapted by Nigel Kneale, Hammer Films' big screen incarnation starring Daniel Radcliffe, and a look at the sequel The Woman in Black: Angel of Death in the form of a novel by Martyn Waites and a movie by Tom Harper.  

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 of Susan Hill's classic novel The Woman in Black, and discover how this dread spectre has manifested as a long running West End play at the Fortune Theatre in London through the medium of Mr Stephen Mallatratt.  

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 more! Yes, it’s a fond flip through and look back on Alan Frank’s classic book Horror Movies (1974)

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, we also have a little chat with the authors too!  

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 celebrated tales, the curious case of The Invisible Man  

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 over his long career and celebrating his life.

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 two dice and a pen and paper, your host revisits Deathtrap Dungeon by Ian Livingstone, the classic Fighting Fantasy gamebook in which WE were the hero!

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 Sargent.  

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 celebration of romance!  

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).

In this episode Odile and Jim go and visit a most benighted residence, with a discussion of Bentley Little’s The Haunted (2012).

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 Nikolai Gogol’s classic tale of creeping insanity Diary of a Madman.

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 depths and learn the truth behind these horrible drowners of folklore!

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 worked with legends such as Hammer, ITC, Gerry Anderson and Ray Harryhausen.

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 character!  

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!  

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 Moon reads A School Story for your festive entertainment!   

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 upon a benighted Christmas Eve!