Horror history by the fireside.
Hypnogoria treats horror as a whole haunted library: cinema, television, old books, ghost lore, and strange fiction all sit on the same shelf. Mr Jim Moon guides the material with patient context, dry wit, and a collector's affection for eerie details.
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Hypnogoria is a horror and weird-culture show with the instincts of a private library. It treats genre as something to be traced, compared, handled, remembered, and occasionally read aloud by the fire. Mr Jim Moon leads the show through films, television, novels, folklore, old illustrated books, and listener stories with a measured, theatrical patience. The pace is rarely hurried. A topic gets its doorway, its side corridors, and then its return to the central argument. Recent episodes show the range clearly. One installment revisits a 1980s book of mysteries, lingering over double-page King Kong artwork, chapter order, lost cities, demons, ghosts, and the particular magic of childhood reference books about the uncanny. Another reviews Adam L.G. Neville's Monumental through the language of folk horror, old practices, savage landscapes, and legends whose comforting surfaces hide something older and hungrier. The winter horror episodes use cold-weather films as starting points for production history, plot mechanics, monster design, and why certain settings make fear feel physical. The discussion of 30 Days of Night, for example, turns an Alaska vampire siege into a wider argument about making vampires frightening again. The Stephen King's It material works in a similar way. A look at It: Welcome to Derry becomes an analysis of title imagery, small-town American nostalgia, mushroom clouds, sewers, old crimes, and the darkness under civic memory. Folklore gets equal care. The Black Lady of Bradley Woods episode weighs local testimony, newspaper images, oral tradition, and the way a haunting can survive even when proof remains uncertain. The show is not only criticism. It also includes submitted eerie experiences and occasional personal updates, including frank discussion of lung cancer treatment. Those moments make the archive feel lived in, but they do not displace the core appeal: strange stories examined with warmth, intelligence, and a fondness for the macabre. Hypnogoria works best for listeners who enjoy horror as history, texture, and argument. It is spooky, but not thin. It is affectionate, but not soft. It gives old monsters their proper shadows.
Made for: For listeners who like horror, folklore, weird fiction, and genre cinema treated with patience and context. It especially suits fans who enjoy long-form criticism, old-book nostalgia, ghost stories, and detailed screen analysis.
What sets it apart: Hypnogoria stands apart through its library-like range and essayistic pacing: one show can move from vampire cinema to local hauntings, Stephen King imagery, folk horror, and vintage mystery books without losing the thread. The appeal is the depth of the guided tour, not the speed of the verdict.
Welcome to Hypnogoria, Britian's longest running horror podcast! Coming to you from the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a comfy armchair by the fireside to talk of all things weird and wonderful. Here we discuss strange cinema and spooky television, explore weird fiction and delve into the mysteries of folklore. Plus we also regularly gather by the fireside to hear readings of some classic tales of the strange and the macabre.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jim Moon connects horror fiction, screen imagery, old books, and living folklore through detailed research and an inviting fireside delivery.
Hypnogoria follows Jim Moon through horror's crowded back rooms, where ghost stories meet screen criticism, old books, and local legend. His solo presentations are built around close attention: the unsettling imagery of It: Welcome to Derry, the illustrations and structure of…
Mr Jim Moon lets you enjoy a ghost story while asking who changed it along the way.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
King Kong on the cover, then a careful tour of early-1980s mystery books.
Hypnogoria takes a careful look at a six-book early-1980s run of little volumes on ghosts, devils and demons, fabulous beasts, sea mysteries, missing treasure, and lost cities, pitched to a slightly younger readership than the Usborne companions.
A measured descent into the blood beneath Monumental's cosy folklore.
Ancient folklore turns predatory in Hypnogoria's review of Adam L.G. Neville's Monumental, a pagan terror novel where old practices, ruined places and half-buried legends push hard against the present.
Jim Moon strings together plainspoken hauntings, and the ordinary details make them creepy.
Hypnogoria gathers a set of listener hauntings under Jim Moon's steady hosting, and it is the small, concrete details that give the episode its charge: a silhouette on curtains, bottles clinking in a cooler, open kitchen cabinets in an empty house, and a masked figure in a…
A spoiler-light look at how Welcome to Derry turns nostalgia into dread.
Welcome to Derry uses its title sequence to trace the rotten underside of postcard America, and Jim Moon breaks down how the song, the images, and the small animation changes all work toward that same point.
A measured winter-horror tour finds its sharpest chill in Barrow's month-long darkness.
Hypnogoria uses cold weather as a practical engine for horror, first sketching a loose tour of wintry films and then settling into the long darkness of Barrow, Alaska, in 30 Days of Night.
A New Year's haunting becomes a measured, atmospheric study of how local folklore gains detail and staying power.
The Black Lady of Bradley Woods treats a New Year's haunting less as a case to solve than as a look at how folklore keeps its footing. The episode traces the story through the hooded figure reported in Nunsthorpe, childhood memories from local residents, and the sad origin tale…
A Christmas shelf tour that settles into Dickens, ghost stories, and seasonal lore.
Hypnogoria's Christmas special unfolds as a guided wander through Mr Jim Moon's Yuletide shelf, where Christmas ghost stories sit beside folklore, festival history, and a lasting affection for Dickens.
A measured review of Monumental's old legends, shifting revelations, and visceral pagan horror.
Mr Jim Moon frames Adam L.G. Neville's Monumental as a slow guided descent into pagan terror, where romantic ideas about old practices and idealistic rewilding begin to feel less restorative than dangerously porous.
Serialized pulp radio drama: Red Panda battles android-army supervillain Captain Clockwork in 1930s Toronto.
Deborah Treisman and a guest writer read and dissect one archival short story monthly.
Mike Muncer and a different guest dissect two horror films per episode, by subgenre.
Joe Lipsett and Trace Thurman find queer subtext in everything from Anaconda to The Mummy.
This episode concludes the history of the ice lolly wars, exploring 1970s gimmicks, horror-themed treats, and the decline of spooky snacks in the 1980s.
Host Jim Moon reviews Adam L.G.
Jim Moon explores the new Box of Delights role-playing game, based on John Masefield's Christmas classic.
This episode continues a summer special series exploring the history of ice cream and ice lollies, set against a backdrop of a British heatwave with nostalgic references to 1970s sci-fi.
A room, firelight, red carpet, and a man set the mood at once.
The host introduces and discusses Adam L.G.
Mr Jim Moon opens with a quick note on why the show arrived unscheduled.
The host shares a personal health update about their ongoing battle with lung cancer, detailing past treatments and current immunotherapy progress.
This episode is the fifth installment of Winter Horror, where host Jim Moon presents an eclectic round-up of his favorite genre films for the colder months, starting with a focus on northern settings.
Jim Moon returns to Stephen King's It.
"30 Days of Night" uses Alaska's polar night and a month of darkness as a survival-horror countdown.
This Hypnogoria New Year's special is a full folklore investigation into the Black Lady of Bradley Woods, a Lincolnshire ghost said to haunt woods near Grimsby, tracing her traditional origin story of a woodcutter's wife whose child was taken by soldiers.
Hypnogoria's Christmas special opens by the festive fireside of the Great Library of Dreams.
This episode discusses the 40th anniversary of the BBC TV adaptation of 'The Box of Delights', including a remastered Blu-ray release and related publications.
This episode explores how 2015 marked a turning point in Christmas horror movies, focusing on the anthology film 'A Christmas Horror Story' and its impact on the genre.
This episode provides a commentary on the 1977 Christmas TV special 'Stigma', discussing its unique place in the 'A Ghost Story for Christmas' series as the first contemporary and original story.