Hypnogoria

It's Christmas Eve in the Great Library of Dreams, and Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a place by the fireside to hear a selection of classic Victorian ghost stories from Mr Charles Dickens and Dr MR James. We heard of The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton, encounter Rats, meet with The Signal-Man, and round off with Lost Hearts. A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight!

In this festive show, Mr Jim Moon tries to discover which is the best screen version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Under consideration for the holly wreathed crown of King of the Carols is Bill Murray's Scrooged (1988), Scrooge (1951) starring Alastair Sim, the 1971 animated version from Richard Williams, The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992), the Albert Finney musical version Scrooge (1970), the 1984 George C Scott adaptation, the 1999 TV movie starring Patrick Stewart, and the 2002 computer animated version from Robert Zemeckis.

A pensioner's headgear is filling up with change, and geese are looking obese! Yes, Christmas is coming! And to get the festive season underway, Mr Jim Moon reads a suitably seasonal vintage ghost story - Our Dear Little Ghost by Elia Peattie, chats about the Victorians and Christmas, and presents an audio version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol.  

From his festive fireside, Mr Jim Moon reviews a selection of books that would make perfect spine-chilling stocking fillers! We weigh up the various editions of MR James available, sample a collection of ghost stories from the Everyman Pocket Library, follow Jeremy Dyson's adventures in The Haunted Book, hear the mysterious Tales from the Black Meadow with Chris Lambert, and take tea with the vicar and Phil Rickman.

To celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who, Mr Jim Moon takes a journey through an A to Z of monsters, villains and aliens!

In this show, Mr Jim Moon takes us on a journey from the Great Library of Dreams to a forgotten corner of the planet Mars, as imagined by the late great Ray Bradbury.

In this epic length show, Mr Jim Moon embarks on some virtual ghost hunting and takes a look at a family of highly atmospheric and spooky adventure games from Jonathan Boakes and Matt Clark. We visit a haunted railway station in Dark Fall: The Journal (2002), investigate disappearances at Fetch Rock in Dark Fall: Lights Out (2004), uncover ancient Cornish mysteries in Barrow Hill (2006), hunt as missing girl in Dark Fall: Lost Souls (2009) and finally ignore all warnings to the curious and voyage to the not-so-quiet seaside town of Saxton to seek The Lost Crown (2008).  

In an unplanned Halloween special (thanks to a sore throat), Mr Jim Moon delves into the audio archives to unearth a selection of terrors! The main feature is an abridged version of Dracula from the fondly remembered Ladybird Horror Classics, and then we have an assortment of weird and spooky verses from various literary greats including Edgar Allan Poe, Wilfred Owen, Ben Jonson, Winifred M Letts and JRR Tolkien.  

From the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon presents a reading of a brand new tale of the weird - The Artist by Tom Bayham, an eerie story in the traditions of MR James, Arthur Machen and Robert Aickman.

Mr Jim Moon invites you once more to the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams for a reading of a classic ghost story by EF Benson – The Bus Conductor – and unravels the legends surrounding this eerie tale…

In the third and final part of our retrospective series looking at the influences and origins of The X Files, Mr Jim Moon traces the history of UFOs and alien visitors on the screen, delving into movie serials, the Shaver mystery, saucer-inspired 1950's SF movies, TV mystery series such as In Search of... and Project UFO, and later big screen outings such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Oooh looky! A surprise bonus episode! Mr Jim Moon delves, hopefully amusingly, into the anals, I mean, annals of the Bulwer-Lytton Prize…

In this second part of our investigations of the origins of The X Files, Mr Jim Moon delves into the archives of the Great Library of Dreams to present four pieces of archive radio on the UFO phenomena.

Twenty years ago, on the 10th of September 1993, a new TV show aired that would become a cult phenomena and a SF legend. That show was The X Files, and in this special anniversary episode Mr Jim Moon explores the various inspirations for Chris Carter's iconic TV series, tracing the influence of Kolchak The Night Stalker, The Avengers and Twin Peaks.

In the final part of our epic Richard Matheson retrospective, Mr Jim Moon examines the great writers’ later works and adaptations. We discuss Bid Time Return which became the movie Somewhere in Time, travel beyond the veil of death with What Dreams May Come, open The Box, and round off with A Stir of Echoes. 

In this fourth part of our series of tributes to the late great Richard Matheson, Mr Jim Moon takes a trip to the infamous Belasco residence, better known to the world as Hell House. We discuss the original 1971 novel and its movie incarnation Legend of Hell House (1973). 

In the third part of our epic tribute to the late Richard Matheson, Mr Jim Moon takes a trip through the televisual terrors conjured by the great writer in the 1970s. We look at the early Spielberg feature Duel (1971), Carl Kolchak's run-ins with The Night Stalker (1972) and The Night Strangler (1973), and discuss his many collaborations with the legendary Dan Curtis such as Trilogy of Terror (1975) and Dead of Night (1977).

In the second part of our tribute to the late great Richard Matheson, Mr Jim Moon details what the legendary author was up to in the 1960s, discussing his work at AIP such as the Roger Corman Poe adaptations, British chiller Night of the Eagle (1962) and his work for Hammer - the psychochiller Fanatic (1965) and Dennis Wheatley's The Devil Rides Out (1968).

Mr Jim Moon pays tribute to the late great Richard Matheson. In this first part, we talk about his early years, his work on The Twilight Zone, his classic vampire novel I am Legend and meet The Incredible Shrinking Man.

As Midsummer approaches, Mr Jim Moon unearths a suitable tale of sunlit terror and presents a reading of The Man Who Went Too Far by EF Benson.