Thursday 31 October 2013

HYPNOBOBS 131 - The Count and Other Terrors



In an unplanned Halloween special (thanks to a sore throat), Mr Jim Moon delves into the audio archives to unearth a selection of terrors! The main feature is an abridged version of Dracula from the fondly remembered Ladybird Horror Classics, and then we have an assortment of weird and spooky verses from various literary greats including Edgar Allan Poe, Wilfred Owen, Ben Jonson, Winifred M Letts and JRR Tolkein.


As mentioned in this 'cast - The Melmoth the Wanderer Varney the Vampire mix

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Wednesday 30 October 2013

MELMOTH THE WANDERER - Varney the Vampire


In tribute to the fondly remembered range of Ladybird Horror Classics Tell-A-Tale cassettes and books, for Halloween Melmoth the Wanderer has joined forces with Mr Jim Moon to create a version of the classic penny dreadful Varney the Vampire, or the  Feast of Blood in the same jugular vein!

Listen here - Melmoth the Wanderer - Varney the Vampire




HALLOWEEN 1914 by Winifred M Letts


Mr Jim Moon reads an eerie poem from the Great War by Winifred M Letts





Tuesday 29 October 2013

EARTH-2.NET: THE SHOW 666 - THE LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES


 For the eighth anniversary of Earth-2.net: The Show, the episode number says it all! It's episode 666, and all things horror are on display. Dan and Wendee start things off with a conversation about The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Then Ian and Dave are joined by Jim Moon to look at The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. Will and Chris dive into Supernatural, and Des brings Darryll to The Show for a chat about the short film Familiar. After that, it's Will, Hannah, and Rosemary's Baby. Then, Shana and Mike cap things off with Poltergeist

DIRECT DOWNLOAD - EARTH-2.NET: THE SHOW 666





Monday 28 October 2013

HYPNOBOBS - Diis Manibus: A Ghost Story for Halloween



For Hypnobobs' first anniversary to mark this notable occasion, Mr Jim Moon recounted a true tale of mystery and terror in two special podcasts. And as Halloween is fast approaching, it seems an appropriate time to resurrect this strange tale from the vaults of the Great Library of Dreams...

Please note as this episode was designed as a single piece, there is no outro in the first episode and no intro in the second, hence you may to listen to the entire tale as an uninterrupted whole.

DIRECT DOWNLOAD - DIIS MANIBUS Part I

DIRECT DOWNLOAD - DIIS MANIBUS Part II 


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Friday 25 October 2013

THE OWLS by Charles Baudelaire



Mr Jim Moon reads a poem by Charles P. Baudelaire for SFFaudio. These weird verses appeared in Weird Tales in 1914 and was translated into English by none other than Clark Ashton Smith under the pseudonym - Timeus Gaylord!






Wednesday 23 October 2013

Saturday 19 October 2013

HYPNOBOBS 130 - The Artist by Tom Baynham


From the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon presents a reading of a brand new tale of the weird - The Artist by Tom Bayham, an eerie story in the traditions of MR James, Arthur Machen and Robert Aickman.

You can hear an interview with Tom here - A Podcast to the Curious #30
And his novel Heritage & Empire is available here
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Thursday 17 October 2013

THE MEZZOTINT by MR James



An audio presentation of the classic ghost story by MR James, available as a free download! Read by Mr Jim Moon and featuring music from the Eldritch Light Orchestra


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Wednesday 16 October 2013

WHERE ONCE POE WALKED by HP Lovecraft


One master of the macabre salutes another in eerie verse....


WHERE ONCE POE WALKED
by HP Lovecraft

Eternal brood the shadows on this ground,
Dreaming of centuries that have gone before;
Great elms rise solemnly by slab and mound,
Arched high above a hidden world of yore.
Round all the scene a light of memory plays,
And dead leaves whisper of departed days,
Longing for sights and sounds that are no more.

Lonely and sad, a specter glides along
Aisles where of old his living footsteps fell;
No common glance discerns him, though his song
Peals down through time with a mysterious spell.
Only the few who sorcery's secret know,
Espy amidst these tombs the shade of Poe.





Tuesday 15 October 2013

WITLESS FOR THE DEFENCE #07 - Hulk (2003)


Here comes the judge! Here comes the judge!

Hello and welcome to our 7th case in which Judge Chris Johnson and legal eagles Mr Jim Moon and Elton McManus of Shonky Lab place Ang Lee's Hulk in the dock! Will "it's not easy being green" constitute an adequate defence?

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Sunday 13 October 2013

HYPNOBOBS 129 - Room For One More


Mr Jim Moon invites you once more to the fireside in the Great Library of Dreams for a reading of a classic ghost story by EF Benson - The Bus Conductor - and unravels the legends surrounding this eerie tale...


DIRECT DOWNLOAD - Room For One More

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Wednesday 9 October 2013

THE HOMECOMING by Carsten Stroud



Over at Geekplanet Online, Mr Jim Moon pays another visit to that quiet little town full of dark secrets and where the crime thriller and horror meet, taking a look at the second part of the Niceville trilogy - The Homecoming by Carsten Stroud.



And to read the review of the first book in this series click here


Sunday 6 October 2013

HYPNOBOBS 128 - The Secret Origins of The X Files 3


In the third and final part of our retrospective series looking at the influences and origins of The X Files, Mr Jim Moon traces the history of UFOs and alien visitors on the screen, delving into movie serials, the Shaver mystery,  saucer-inspired 1950's SF movies, TV mystery series such as In Search of... and Project UFO, and later big screen outings such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind.


DIRECT DOWNLOAD - The Secret Origins of The X Files 3

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Thursday 3 October 2013

THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK by HP LOVECRAFT


Proudly presenting the first audiobook release from the Hypnogoria Press, from the Great Library of Dreams, Mr Jim Moon invites you to delve into the sinister world of the Cthulhu Mythos with a reading of HP Lovecraft's classic weird tale The Haunter of the Dark.

Complete with new opening and closing themes, introduction and afterword by Mr Moon, and a bonus reading of a related Lovecraft poem, this audiobook is now available for download in a variety of audio formats for the low price of just £2! Although thanks to the magic of Bandcamp you may pay more if you wish!






Wednesday 2 October 2013

JOHNNY ALUCARD (2013) by Kim Newman



Fallen from grace, driven from the British Empire, and beheaded in Italy at the close of the '50s in previous instalments, Dracula seems long dead and long gone. A historical icon, but a relic of the past. Yet, when vampire boy Johnny Alucard descends upon America, stalking the streets of New York and Hollywood, haunting the lives of the rich and famous, from Sid and Nancy to Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, and Francis Ford Coppola, sinking his fangs ever deeper into the zeitgeist of 1980s America, it seems the past might not be dead after all...

After literally years in the making, at long last the next installment of Kim Newman's Anno Dracula saga, Johnny Alucard is here!