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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| 145 - Beating the Bounds by Jim Moon | 20 Jul 2025 | 00:35:05 | |
In this episode, we begin a two part tale unearthed from the mysterious vaults of the Great Library of Dreams - a memoir of boyhood summer in a very different 1970s... | |||
| 144 - The Other Gods by HP Lovecraft | 06 Jul 2025 | 00:22:41 | |
Another tale from the fantastical Dreamlands of HP Lovecraft! | |||
| 135 - Nice Weather For Ducks by Jim Moon | 29 Mar 2025 | 00:49:01 | |
This week a folk horror tale from Mr Moon himself - some Youtubers explore a ruined tower on a remote island in Northumbria, and discover that it is not as deserted as it first appears... | |||
| 092 - There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard by MR James | 09 Oct 2023 | 00:15:20 | |
If you are looking for a tale to read aloud at Hallowe'en, we have another short sharp shocker for you here, this time from the master of the ghost story MR James! | |||
| Door 09 - Wax and Candles | 09 Oct 2023 | 00:04:54 | |
Behind Door 09 we have a little cautionary tale about messing with magic... | |||
| Door 8 - The Witch of Redvale | 08 Oct 2023 | 00:08:29 | |
Behind Door 8 we have some children's entertainment 1970s style i.e. highly eerie and drenched in folk horror! | |||
| Door 7 - The Nightly Visit | 07 Oct 2023 | 00:06:15 | |
Behind Door 7 is something very terrifying indeed... | |||
| Door 06 - Local Haunts | 06 Oct 2023 | 00:10:27 | |
Door 6 on the Hypnogoria Halloween Advent Calendar opens today, revealing some local radio ghost stories | |||
| Door 05 - Distant Relations | 05 Oct 2023 | 00:02:48 | |
Behind Door 05 is a dark family secret... one that bites | |||
| Door 04 - Dances in the Dark | 04 Oct 2023 | 00:06:12 | |
Door 04 opens and invites you to some dances in darkness | |||
| Door 03 - The Police Transcript | 03 Oct 2023 | 00:04:38 | |
Behind Door 3 is an eerie document marked 'The Police Transcript" which details a ghost hunt gone strangely wrong... NB - the first upload had an error on it, and has now ben replaced with a corrected version | |||
| Door 02 - A Modest Proposal | 01 Oct 2023 | 00:02:20 | |
Door 2 of the Hypnogoria Halloween Advent Calendar opens... | |||
| Door 01 - Welcome to October | 30 Sep 2023 | 00:04:13 | |
The first door in the Hypnogoria Halloween Advent Calendar opens... Every day a new ghoulish delight! Sinister stories, vile verses and macabre music awaits you... | |||
| 134 - The Tomb of Sarah by FG Loring | 16 Mar 2025 | 00:44:08 | |
Restoration work in an old church accidentally releases an ancient horror in this classic Victorian vampire tale! | |||
| HYPNOGORIA HALLOWEEN ADVENT CALENDAR - Introduction | 30 Sep 2023 | 00:06:30 | |
Welcome to the first Hypnogoria Halloween Advent Calendar! And Mr Jim is here to tell you all about it! | |||
| 091 - The Statement of Randolph Carter by HP Lovecraft | 24 Sep 2023 | 00:29:45 | |
In this show, we have a classic early chiller from HP Lovecraft, and the first of several tales featuring occult scholar Randolph Carter! | |||
| 090 - Gabriel-Ernest by Saki | 10 Sep 2023 | 00:28:51 | |
Tonight we have a classic chiller from master story teller Saki AKA writer HH Monroe. In this short, sharp shocker we encounter a curious foundling who may, or not be, something else entirely.. DIRCT DOWNLOAD | |||
| 089 - The Story of Konnor Old House by E and H Heron | 27 Aug 2023 | 00:45:01 | |
Occult detective, Mr Flaxman Low is called in to investigate a house where a glowing phantom lurks, and madness and death wait for anyone staying there... | |||
| 088 - Outside the Orphanage by Jim Moon | 13 Aug 2023 | 00:29:14 | |
In this little meet-up, Mr Jim shares a ghostly tale from the Great Library itself, concerning an old photograph with a troublesome history... | |||
| 087 - The Room in the Tower by EF Benson | 30 Jul 2023 | 00:47:12 | |
In this show we have a reading of one of the all-time classic ghost stories - The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson, a tale of summer parties on the lawn and a recurring nightmare... | |||
| 086 - Wood Magic by Frederick Cowles | 16 Jul 2023 | 00:36:24 | |
Tonight we have another tale of terror set in the heart of the English countryside. In this story from Mr Frederick Cowles, we visit a country house near a small wood, home to an old tree known as the Devil's Oak... | |||
| 085 - The Faeries by William Allingham | 06 Jul 2023 | 00:12:06 | |
Keeping with our midsummer theme, here is a reading of a Victorian poem rich in faery folklore, in which Irish poet William Allingham reveals the darker side of the little people... | |||
| 084 - Mr Humphreys and his Inheritance by MR James | 18 Jun 2023 | 01:23:11 | |
Just in time for midsummer, we have a tale of sunlit horror set in an English country garden by the great MR James. One can easily get lost in a hedge maze, however you can also find things too... NOTE - apologies but the initial upload unfortunately had an audio error in the mix - but this has now been fixed | |||
| 083 - The Ghoul by Clark Ashton Smith | 16 Jun 2023 | 00:25:42 | |
In this podcast we hear a mythic tale set in ancient Arabia from Clark Ashton Smith, concerning a most curious encounter and a most unfortunate bargain... | |||
| 133 - The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood | 01 Mar 2025 | 00:49:31 | |
A classic eerie tale from Mr Algernon Blackwood concerning a vigil held in an allegedly haunted house | |||
| 082 - What is a Ghoul | 09 Jun 2023 | 00:24:30 | |
In this episode Mr Jim Moon unearths a strange news report, printed in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat back in 1890, which details the capture of a ghoul in rural Ireland. | |||
| 081 - The Resurrection of R Chetwynd-Hayes by Marc Damian Lawler | 30 May 2023 | 00:53:23 | |
Tonight we have a special tale to celebrate the birthday of the late great R Chetwynd-Hayes, the writer dubbed Britain's Prince of Chill, whose tales features in classic horror movies such as From Beyond the Grave and The Monster Club, plus series such as Vincent Price's The Price of Fear, Night Voices, Dramarama and Rod Serling's Night Gallery | |||
| 080 - The Story of Saddler's Croft by E & H Heron | 19 May 2023 | 00:45:02 | |
The world's first occult detective Mr Flaxman Low is called in to investigate a house where former tenants erected a strange temple and allegedly practised strange rites there... | |||
| 079 - Atlantis by Stanton A Coblentz | 11 May 2023 | 00:13:29 | |
In this episode we have a fantastical poem about a fabled land from the pages of legendary pulp magazine Weird Tales! | |||
| 078 - The Hoard of the Gibbelins by Lord Dunsany | 04 May 2023 | 00:20:41 | |
Tonight we have a weird tale from Lord Dunsany, one of the pioneers of fantasy literature. However this is no fairy story, as a treasure-seeking knight will discover... | |||
| 077 - St Marks Eve by Mary Anne Browne | 25 Apr 2023 | 00:14:37 | |
April 25th is the Eve of St Mark, according to folklore a night for a rather eerie divination ceremony, as documented in a Victorian poem which is very much a tale of terror in verse! | |||
| 076 - The Story of No 1 Karma Crescent by E and H Heron | 29 Mar 2023 | 00:41:09 | |
Another fascinating case for the world's first occult detective Mr Flaxman Low, in which he is called to investigate a house where tenants die mysteriously after the apparition of a whispering face is seen! | |||
| 075 - Pigeons From Hell Part III by Robert E Howard | 07 Mar 2023 | 00:29:26 | |
In the third and final chapter of Robert E Howard's classic weird tale uncover the sinister secret of The Call of Zuvembie! | |||
| 074 - Pigeons From Hell Part II by Robert E Howard | 01 Mar 2023 | 00:24:46 | |
In the second chapter of Robert E Howard's classic weird tale we encounter The Snake's Brother! | |||
| 073 - Pigeons From Hell Part I by Robert E Howard | 24 Feb 2023 | 00:49:23 | |
The first episode of a three part reading of a classic weird novella by Robert E Howard - Pigeons From Hell. In this chapter we encounter - The Whistler in the Dark! | |||
| 132 - The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce | 10 Feb 2025 | 00:51:28 | |
A strange gothic nightmare of a tale from Mr Ambrose Bierce! | |||
| 072 - Hypnos by HP Lovecraft | 08 Feb 2023 | 00:35:26 | |
A reading of an early short tale by HP Lovecraft, Hypnos - a story of obsession, dreams, and cosmic horror. | |||
| 071 - Voodoo by Fredric Brown | 28 Jan 2023 | 00:10:14 | |
We open a new year of a reading with a little tale from Fredric Brown, one of what he called his "short short stories" - tiny tales but with memorable twist endings! | |||
| 070 - All Through the House | 23 Dec 2022 | 00:35:43 | |
Mr Jim Moon relates a eerie ghost story for Christmas of his own... | |||
| 069 - The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs | 12 Dec 2022 | 00:28:28 | |
A dark and witty tale of a dreadful, drenching spectral lady that appears to haunt Harrowby Hall every Christmas Eve... | |||
| 068 - Holly by Marc Damian Lawler | 05 Dec 2022 | 00:18:00 | |
A tale of festive fears and Christmas chills, set in the heart of the Lake District! This story and other seasonal shockers by assorted writers can be found in the volume Christmas Under the Covers, edited by Marc Damian Lawler! | |||
| 067 - The Ash-Tree by MR James | 26 Nov 2022 | 00:45:15 | |
We begin this year's season of ghost stories for Christmas with a tale from the great MR James, a sinister tale of curses and witchcraft entitled simply The Ash-Tree... | |||
| 066 - Narrative of a Ghost of a Hand by J Sheridan le Fanu | 18 Nov 2022 | 00:27:46 | |
A haunting tale from a writer that the great MR James himself considered to be the finest ever author of ghostly tales - J Sheridan le Fanu. | |||
| 065 - The Story of Sevens Hall by E Heron and H Heron | 10 Nov 2022 | 00:38:09 | |
Another case for occult detective Mr Flaxman Low - involving a family curse and a dread spectre whose appearance brings death! | |||
| 064 - Notebook Found in a Deserted House by Robert Bloch | 28 Oct 2022 | 01:00:43 | |
A classic tale of Lovecraftian terror from Robert Bloch. When young Willie Osbourne goes to stay with his aunt in and uncle on their remote farm in the country, he becomes aware of strange things lurking in the forest, sinister things that are getting closer as Hallowe'en approaches... | |||
| 063 - The Floor Above by M Humphreys | 24 Oct 2022 | 00:38:44 | |
A tale of autumnal terror that was a favourite of HP Lovecraft. Appearing in Weird Tales in 1923, this is an eerie story of a long-lost friend refound... | |||
| 131 - The Facts in the Case of M Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe | 26 Jan 2025 | 00:35:42 | |
An experiment in mesmerism yields eerie and horrifying results! | |||
| To Autumn by John Keats | 22 Oct 2022 | 00:08:30 | |
A seasonal reading of a much loved classic poem for this time of year... | |||
| 061 - The Outsider by HP Lovecraft | 27 Sep 2022 | 00:28:32 | |
Tonight we have a reading of an early classic short story by the great HP Lovecraft, a tale that begins in a benighted castle deep beneath the earth... | |||
| 060 - The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White | 10 Sep 2022 | 00:30:04 | |
Tonight we have a reading of one of the all-time classic ghost stories, The House of the Nightmare by Edward Lucas White! When a gentlemen's roadster breaks down on a lonely road he finds curious company in the house where he stays the night... | |||