Hypnogoria

In this chapter of Halloween history, we look at how the spookiest night of the year was portrayed on TV and at the movies in the 1970s.

Our history of the spookiest night of the year continues, and we discover how Hallowe'en was celebrated in the 1970s, and looking at how it appeared in assorted books and stories in that decade.

As a prelude to our next helping of Hallowe'en history, Mr Jim Moon delves in the revivals of radio horror from the 1960s and the 1970s, to sample Hallowe'en specials from the likes of The Black Mass and the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre!

In this special episode we pay tribute to the late great Dame Diana Rigg with a commentary on her favourite movie - classic horror Theatre of Blood (1973) in which she co-starred with Vincent Price, proving that Shakespeare can indeed be bloody good fun!

In this episode we round up the last mummies lurking in the 1960s, including the Paul Naschy monster rally Assignment Terror, before beginning the 1970s with the last of the Hammer mummy movies - Blood From the Mummy's Tomb!

In something of a stop-gap episode as Mr Jim struggles with a mummy's curse, we have delve into the vaults of the Great Library... And so, as colleges and universities open their doors once more, we hear a cautionary tale for new students everywhere...

In something of a stop-gap episode as Mr Jim struggles with a mummy's curse, we have delve into the vaults of the Great Library... And so, as colleges and universities open their doors once more, we hear a cautionary tale for new students everywhere...

In this chapter of Mysteries of the Mummy we continue our shamble through the 1960s, looking at several highly dubious movies featuring low rent mummies before examining our main feature The Mummy's Shroud from Hammer!

In this chapter of our history of bandaged ghouls, we begin to unwrap the 1960s and look in-depth at the second movie in Hammer's Mummy cycle - Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)!

All previous chapters of this podcast series can be found here -