Hypnogoria

In the second of our readings of ghost stories for Christmas, we voyage back to Victorian London for a tale of a Christmas party, a peculiar wager, and a night in a most notorious haunted house... in Number Ninety by BM Croker

Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, and originally shown on Christmas Eve 1971, The Stalls of Barchester was the very first of the BBC's much loved Ghost Story for Christmas series. Mr Jim hands round the mulled wine and mince pies, and fires up the old DVD player to give a commentary on this televisual incarnation of the famous ghost story by MR James.

We begin our annual readings of classic ghost stories for Christmas with a tale from the great MR James - The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral

In this episode Mr Jim Moon takes a trip to one of the most famous British haunted houses of the 1970s! Haunting childrens' TV and created by Richard Carpenter, The Ghosts of Motley Hall delivered three seasons of spooky sitcom action and wasn't above delivering the occasional bit of televisual terror. We've got the keys from the caretaker Mr Gudgin, so let's see if Motley Hall is still haunted...

Christmas is coming and this festive season there's a tinsel bedecked ton of treats coming up from the Great Library of Dreams!

And here's the full details of our ghostly Christmas line-up!

Also check out our advent calendar at www.hypnogoria.com

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon has some recommendations for some spooky reading for the coming festive season - a trio of ghostly graphic novels from Mr Thom Burgess - Malevolents Click Click, The Eyrie and Hallows Fell.

In the final part of our long running saga investigating horrors from the deep, Mr Jim Moon nets a shoal of movies that owe something to The Shadow Over Innsmouth by HP Lovecraft. The movies are Island of the Fishmen AKA Screamers (1979), Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Dagon (2001), Cthulhu (2005) and Cold Skin (2017)

In a special episode Mr Jim Moon remember the legendary Stan Lee, and reflects on his truly Marvel-ous achievements!

This episode we talk a look at a new book from Stephen Volk - the man who created Ghostwatch! In The Dark Masters Trilogy we will encounter four iconic figures from the world of the weird and the macabre. In Whitstable we meet with Peter Cushing, while in Leytonstone we have a rendezvous with a young Alfred Hitchcock. And finally at Netherwood, we will witness a strange meeting between Dennis Wheatley and notorious occultist Aleister Crowley.

In this episode a rather creeped out Mr Jim Moon attempts to gather his thoughts together on the new movie Possum which was directed by Matt Holness, who previously created the much beloved horror spoof TV series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. However Possum is no laughing matter...

UPDATE - Possum is now available for streaming on Amazon too!