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What would happen if the Devil was sacked? And exiled to live in Birmingham? Odile and Jim find out in the comedy horror novel Clovenhoof by Heide Goody and Ian Grant! As well as discussing the book, we also have a little chat with the authors too!
This week we catch up once again with that most unusual of amateur detectives, GK Chesterton's Father Brown. In this episode, Mr Jim Moon presents a reading of one of the little priest's most celebrated tales, the curious case of The Invisible Man
This week we had the sad news that Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved author and creator of the Discworld, had passed away. In this episode Mr Jim Moon pays tribute to the man and his work, looking back over his long career and celebrating his life.
Mr Jim Moon, armed only with a sword, backpack, leather armour and a Potion of Nostalgia, voyages to the little town of Fang in Southern Allansia to enter the Trial of Champions. Wielding his mighty two dice and a pen and paper, your host revisits Deathtrap Dungeon by Ian Livingstone, the classic Fighting Fantasy gamebook in which WE were the hero!
In this episode Odile and Jim keep an eye on the temperature and keep a wary ear open for the sound of dripping blood as they discuss the shivers and spectres found in Three Winter Ghosts by Mr Gary Sargent.
In a special surprise episode, Mr Jim Moon breaks out the debunking shotgun and delves into the mysteries of St Valentine's Day, attempting to sort the fact from the fiction about the origins of this celebration of romance!
Completing the trilogy of World of the Unknown books, Mr Jim Moon, in a predictably over-excitable fashion, voyages back to the 1970s to take a look at All About UFOs (Usborne 1977).
In this episode Odile and Jim go and visit a most benighted residence, with a discussion of Bentley Little's The Haunted (2012).
In this episode, Mr Jim Moon discovers a lost audio treasure in the dusty archives of the Great Library of Dreams – a rare recording of comedy legend Kenneth Williams performing an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic tale of creeping insanity Diary of a Madman.
In the first of two shows this week, Mr Jim Moon presents a bonus episode, giving you all a taste of his blog series Folklore on Friday. In this show we cover legends of fearsome dwellers in the depths and learn the truth behind these horrible drowners of folklore!
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