Hypnogoria

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!

In the last of our ghost stories for Christmas, Mr Jim Moon presents an eerie tale from Victorian writer, painter and poet Hume Nisbet, a rather creepy story set on a cold dark Christmas Eve…  

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon provides a hopefully illuminating commentary on the classic BBC TV adaptation of MR James's famous ghost story  Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You My Lad . Directed by Dr Jonathan Miller, this short film version first screened in 1968 as part of the BBC art show  Omnibus  and would go one to inspire the creation of the BBC's classic annual series  A Ghost Story for Christ...

In the next of our ghost stories for Christmas, Mr Jim Moon reads one of MR James's most famous tales – the classic  Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You My Lad  

This week Mr Jim Moon wonders why in the name of Santa's beard did he think it was a good idea to do a commentary track for notorious Christmas schlock horror  Jack Frost … However he has a cunning plan to get through it…  

Well December is here once again, and as is traditional here at the Great Library of Dreams we are hosting a series of readings of ghost stories for Christmas. We begin this year's selection of festive chillers with a tale written by EG Swain, a good friend of the great MR James who was inspired to try his own hand at crafting ghostly tales. The result was a remarkable collection called the  Stone...

In the first of our festive offerings, Mr Jim Moon goes in search of that merry wintry rogue, Jack Frost! Who is he and where did he come from? Is he just a winter's fairy tale? Do his origins lie in Norse mythology? And does he have any relation to Father Christmas? Wrap up warm, and come with me to find out!   

This Christmas, a certain quartet of scallywags are reforming to mark the 20th anniversary of their first broadcasts, and hence in this episode, MR Jim Moon is heading into deepest and darkest corners of the benighted little town of  Royston Vasey to uncover the true and twisted history of that now legendary comedy troupe,  the League of Gentlemen! 

Just a very quick update on the news that Geekplanet Online is closing down and what this means for the podcast!  

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon returns to the haunted shelf of childhood favourites and dusts off the very creepy tome, the  Hamlyn Book of Ghosts  by Mr Daniel Farson, first published way back in 1978! 

In this addition to our history of the Triffids, Mr Jim Moon rounds up some triffid apocrypha. We discuss some comic book adaptations of John Wyndham's classic SF novel, and take an in-depth look at the official sequel  Night of the Triffids  by Simon Clark which was published to mark the 50th anniversary in 2001, and its audio adaptation produced by Big Finish.

As promised, here's an in-depth review of the new graphic novel  The Dracula File  from Rebellion. Collecting together all the episodes from classic British horror comic  Scream , plus various strips that appeared in specials, at last we have the complete saga of  The Dracula File  by Gerry Finley-Day and Eric Bradbury! Mr Jim talks about the history of the strip and why no vampire lover should be...

Just in time for Halloween, Mr Jim Moon presents a special episode – a radio play that tells the tale of a most disturbing haunting, adapted from the classic chiller, Ghost Hunt by HR Wakefield.  

Continuing in our annual series on the history of the spookiest night of the year, Mr Jim Moon takes at a look Halloween in the mid-twentieth century. We talks about the works of Ray Bradbury, the horrors of EC comics, and the Disney classic retelling of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow,  The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad  (1949).

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon delves once more into the world of horror comics. In this show we review the second volume of Leah Moore and John Reppion's MR James adaptations  Ghost Stories of An Antiquary Volume II , discuss classic reprints from Rebellion such as  The Leopard of Lime Street  and  Monster , and round off with an in-depth review of their new  Scream & Misty Halloween Special

Continuing our reviews of some recent horror movies, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at pleasure. In this show we review  An Unkindness of Ravens ,  The Blackcoat's Daughter  (AKA  February ),  Get Out , and  A Monster Calls . Once again all reviews are spoiler-free!

October is here and Hallowe'en is not far away. So then, in the first of a two part offering, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at some recent horror movies for your autumnal viewing pleasure. In this show we review  Prevenge ,  The Evil Within ,  The Void  and  The Girl With All the Gifts . Note - all these reviews are spoiler-free!  

Do you remember the '70s? Strange decade wasn't it? Post apocalyptic dramas, weird crime fighters, spooky SF shows, and some genuinely terrifying ghost stories... And that was just the children's television! Come take a trip back to that very disturbing decade where terror and horror lurked everywhere from TV to comics to board games and even snack foods! Relive those golden days with Mr Jim Moon...

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon revisits one of the strangest ever TV shows for children, HTV's  Sky , a bizarre SF tale that puzzled, perplexed and petrified a generation back in the 1970s!

In this episode, we mark the passing of another great talent, comics legend Len Wein, a man who penned classics runs on Spiderman, the Incredible Hulk, X-Men, the Phantom Stranger, the Justice League and Batman, and also created Swamp Thing and Wolverine! 

The end of the summer is upon us, the days are beginning to shorten, and hence it's the perfect time for an autumnal tale of terror. Mr Jim Moon once again invites you to the cosy fireside of the Great Library of Dreams to hear a classic chiller from the man considered by the great MR James to be the best writer of ghost stories, Sheridan Le Fanu. 

In another special episode, Mr Jim Moon pays tribute to the great Tobe Hooper, who sadly passed away this week. In this episode we take a look back over his life and works, discussing genre-defining classics such as  The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ,  Salem's Lot  and  Poltergeist , as well as some of his less discussed movies such as  Eaten Alive ,  The Fun House  and  Invaders from Mars .