Hypnogoria

Welcome to the Commentary Club! In this infocast, we'll tell you all about this new show!

This week you join us for a very special episode - the 400th podcast to come from the Great Library of Dreams! Mr Jim talks about the origins and history of the show and has a very special announcement to make!

In this epic length episode, Mr Jim Moon delves into the mysterious history of Innsmouth. We uncover what inspired this tale, the origins of the Deep Ones, its links to other tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, and about the life and times of HP Lovecraft himself.

Our hero's adventures in Innsmouth might be in the past... But thanks to the endless tides on the sea's dead floor, the past never stays buried for long...

Our hero wishes to leave the benighted town and return to the sanity of Arkham... But other forces in the town have other plans for him...

In this chapter our hero hears strange and troubling tales of Innsmouth's shadowed history...

In the second chapter, our hero reaches the legend-haunted seaport of Innsmouth...

The first chapter of HP Lovecraft's classic novella

We are about to embark on the most ambitious reading Mr Jim Moon has so far attempted - the classic novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft. In this episode we introduce the tale which will follow in five chapters over the next month!

This episode we continue our investigation of Victorian London's most notorious haunted house and finally uncover the truth about the Nameless Horror of Berkeley Square!

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon begins an in-depth investigation into one of the most notorious hauntings of Victorian London - the strange case of the Nameless Horror of Berkeley Square. In this first part, we will hear the macabre tales told about this most horrific and violent haunting and try and trace the stories to their original sources.

In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a look at a new movie just out on Netflix - Calibre, a suspenseful tale set in the highlands of Scotland.

In this mini-episode Mr Jim Moon takes a look at a horror comedy what he found on Netflix - Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015). Can this zom com live up to classic like Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland? Get your neckerchief and woggle and come to camp to find out!

On the 27th of July 1927, MR James read one of his last tales, Wailing Well, at a camp in Dorset held by the Eton Boy Scouts. And so, 91 years to the day, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take a place round the campfire and hear this classic chiller!

In the second part of our voyage through the books of British horror star Adam Nevill, we take another look at The Ritual (2011), explore the cult crimes in Last Days (2012) and discover what lurks in The House of Small Shadows (2013).

In the first of a new mini-series, we explore the novels of Britain's new master of horror, Adam Nevill. In this episode, we take a look at his debut book Banquet for the Damned (2004) and his second novel Apartment 16 (2010). Both reviews are spoiler-free.

In this episode, we meet one of the very first occult detectives - Mr Flaxman Low, whose exploits were chronicled by E & H Heron at the close of the 19th century. In this first case, we encounter a chilling tale of a most unusual haunted house in the heart of London...

This week Mr Jim Moon explores the world of English Eerie, a new indie role playing game for one player from Trollish Delver Games. In this game, with a pen, a journal, and a deck of cards, you too can be part of an od school ghost story or trapped in a world of folk horror!

In this little mini episode, Mr Jim Moon looks at the Mexican movie The Similars (2016) now available on Netflix

We round off our current series on aquatic horrors with a tale of terror by the great HP Lovecraft.

In this episode Mr Jim Moon brings this series of podcasts on gill-men and aquatic horrors full circle with a look at some curious cases from the annals of cryptozoology which seems to have echoes of the Black Lagoon...

We continue our exploration of the Gill-man's kith and kin, this time rounding up assorted Black Lagoon knock-offs! We take a look at The She Creature (1956), Creature From The Haunted Sea (1961), Horror of Party Beach (1964), Beach Girls and the Monster (1965) and The City Under The Sea AKA War-gods of the Deep (1965).

Beginning a new mini-series, Mr Jim Moon returns to the world of aquatic horrors to discover assorted ameos and homages to the Gill-man, not to mention a few outright rip-offs too! We have a look at Return of the Creature (1955), Castle of the Monsters (1958), Monster Of Piedras Blancas (1959) , Mad Monster Party (1967), Chabelo and Pepito vs. The Monsters (1973), The Monster Squad (1987), plus some small screen appearances in McHale's Navy and Night Gallery.

In this week's show we have a tale of terror originally published in Weird Tales magazine. It's a story of a boy and a monster from the late great Manly Wade Wellman.

In this episode we look at the last of the books on the weird and the wonderful written by Daniel Farson for Hamlyn. In this colourful volume, the kids of the 1980s could learn all about assorted monsters from dinosaurs to the xenomorph!

In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a trip into some very deep dark woods with The Ritual. We have a spoiler free review of the new movie directed by David Bruckner and also discuss the original novel by Adam Nevill. Plus there's a spoiler-filled discussion at the end for those who have seen the movie.

A quick announcement regarding the coming month or so...

This week Mr Jim Moon is delving once again into the Stoneground Ghost Tales by EG Swain to uncover a cautionary tale that may serve as a lesson for anyone foolish enough to be doing a bit of gardening this weekend...

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at a marvelous new tome Paperbacks from Hell by Grady Hendrix - a lavishly illustrated and in-depth history of the horror paperbacks of the 1970s and the 1980s

In this little episode Mr Jim Moon investigates a new Spanish horror movie, Veronica which is being touted as the scariest movie currently on Netflix!

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at a brand new movie, Ghost Stories! Created by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, this film adapts their hugely successful stage play for the big screen and has been hailed as the best British horror movie in years! The main review is spoiler-free but there is a special little section at the end for those who have seen and survived the movie!

In this little episode Mr Jim Moon takes a look at a doubly rare thing - firstly because it's an episode of an obscure TV horror series hardly ever seen since its first broadcast, and secondly for it is an even rarer beast - a screen adaptation of a Robert Aickman story!

In this episode, we round off our current series on aquatic terrors with a seminal tale of marine horror from the great HP Lovecraft.

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon takes an in-depth look at the Oscar winning monster movie from Guillermo del Toro. First we have a spoiler-free review of The Shape of Water, and then in the second half, we delve deeper, exploring its connections to The Creature From the Black Lagoon movies and other connections to folklore, fairy stories and classic films.

In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a look at the further adventures of the Gill-man, exploring Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

A little bonus episode for you all relating an childhood encounter with the Creature!

In this episode, we continue on your exploration of the Gill-man and take an in-depth look at the classic horror SF movie The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) directed by the great Jack Arnold. Plus we also take a peek at the Gill-man in print and unearth various plots for remakes.

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon invites you all to take a leisurely boat trip down the Amazon river to the Black Lagoon. Here we'll learn of the origin and history of its famous resident monster the Gill-man, and all about the making of the classic movie The Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954)

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!