Hypnogoria

In the second part of our Yuletide festivities, Mr Jim Moon takes an epic length look back at all the various ghostly tales that have haunted our televisions in Christmases past. Featuring productions by luminaries such as Lawrence Gordon Clarke, Dr Jonathan Miller, Nigel Kneale and Mark Gatiss, plus many diverse adaptations of classics by MR James and old favourites like The Turn of the Screw.

In the first part of this year’s festive celebrations, Mr Jim Moon discusses ghosts and Christmas and presents a seasonal chiller penned by Mr Charles Dickens, The Signal Man

In a change to the announced schedule, Mr Jim Moon represents a suitably seasonal tale on the perils of Christmas toys. Coming from the pen of forgotten author Tim Stout, Christmas With Frankenstein is a gleefully ghoulish yarn about some pint-sized replicas of the most famous of the Universal Monsters…

Due to various factors, this week Mr Jim Moon hands over the reins to a special guest host, and so we have Mr Vincent Price presenting two tales illustrating The Price of Fear!  In the first he co-stars with fellow horror legend Mr Peter Cushing, and in the second finds himself in a tale penned…

Once more we’re back at the fireside of the Great Library of Dreams, but this time Mr Jim Moon has something a little different for you all… A classic mystery tale of crime and detection from the very wonderful GK Chesterton.

Mr Jim Moon continues his epic exploration of Bat-history! This time discovering what lay in store for the Batman in the latter half of the 1970s! Warning - may contain Bat-Mite!

As autumn shades into winter, it’s time to draw close to the fireside once more and for Mr Jim Moon to open up again the Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder…  

Just in time for Hallowe’en, Mr Jim Moon takes a look back at the BBC1 1992 TV special that terrified the nation! revealing the origin, influences, impact and legacy of this classic of televisual terror created by Stephen Volk, that pitted Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith and Craig Charles against a most persistent and malignant spectre, the dread Mr Pipes...

In the second part of this epic length podcast, Mr Jim Moon continues his true tale of terror…

As it's our first anniversary, to celebrate this notable occasion, in the first of two special podcasts, Mr Jim Moon recounts a true tale of mystery and terror! The second part will follow in a day or two. And please note that as this episode was designed as a single piece, there is no outro in this episode and there will be no intro in the next. So you may listen to the entire show as an uninterrupted whole.   

Continuing our series of readings for Hallowe'en, from the Great Library of Dreams Mr Jim Moon presents not one, not two, but three of his favourite tales of terror and along the way at long last explains how he came to be so obsessed with weird fiction. The stories presented are The Waxwork by AM Burrage, The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White and There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard by MR James... 

With Hallowe’en drawing ever nearer and strange fogs haunting the streets, in the Great Library of Dreams Mr Jim Moon revisits two sources of sleepless nights – The Red Lodge by HR Wakefield and Midnight Express by Alfred Noyes…

From the fireside of the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon brings you a quasi-vampiric Victorian weird tale, Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley…

Just a micro-cast to remind any folks still listening from the old feed that it’s time to resubscribe! But also some chit chat about what’s coming up on the show and some bonus comedy nonsense that you might not have heard before…

At last it’s back to Bat-history, as Mr Jim Moon explores Batman in the late ’60s and early ’70s! In this episode we discuss the aftermath of Batmania and see where comics legends Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams took the Dark Knight Detective!  

By the fireside of the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon reads a seminal genre crossing tale of invisible terrors, What Was It ? by Fitz-James O’Brien.  

In an impromptu off the hip episode, Mr Jim Moon dissects the history of Torchwood and answers a listener’s query on how he would make it better!

At last we’re back to the adventures of Mr Carnacki with a chilling tale,  as recounted by Mr William Hope Hodgson, entitled The House Among The Laurels…

After something of an enforced break, we’re back with a full length episode, concluding our Black Cats of Poe series! But we saved the best for last! For this episode is a veritable who’s who of horror maestros with the legends Lucio Fulci, Dario Argento, George A. Romero and Stuart Gordon all bringing Poe to the screen!

Continuing our exploration of adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat, Mr Jim Moon first dissects in depth Roger Corman's Tales of Terror (1962) starring Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone and the patron saint of Hypnobobs Mr Vincent Price. Then in an unplanned tangent, rambles about the history of Italian cinema and the birth of giallo, before getting stuck into Sergio Martino's catchily titled Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972) and tries not to drool over Edwige Fenech.