HYPNOGORIA 230 - The Ash-Tree

Yes, it's time for our annual commentary track for one of the classic BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas! This year we have reached 1975, and Lawrence Gordon Clark's version of The Ash-Tree by MR James, adapted for the screen by David Rudkin. 

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HYPNOGORIA 229 - New Ghost Stories for Christmas

In this show we take a look at a quartet of recent Ghost Stories for Christmas created by Mr Mark Gatiss which have at long last been collected together and released on DVD! Hence we have a welcome revisits to The Tractate Middoth (2013) , The Dead Room (2018), Martins Close (2019) and The Mezzotint (2021)! 

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A Ghost Story for Christmas - You'd Better Watch Out

In the last show before Christmas, Mr Jim Moon invites you to the cosy fireside of the Great Library of Dreams to hear of the most unusual and eerie events that occurred several years ago one snowy Christmas Eve...

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HYPNOGORIA 132 - A Warning to the Curious - A Christmas Commentary

Following on from our reading of the classic tale from MR James, in this episode we take a look back on the 1972 screen version directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark for the BBC A Ghost Story for Christmas series, starring Peter Vaughan and Clive Swift.

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GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 65 - A Ghost Story for Christmas - A Warning to the Curious by MR James

It wouldn't be Christmas without a tale from the great MR James! And so once again we gather round the cosy fireside of the  Great Library of Dreams to hear one of his most celebrated ghost stories...

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GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 64 - A Ghost Story for Christmas - The Kirk Spook by EG Swain

In the first of our ghost stories for Christmas, Mr Jim Moon invites you to take seat by the fireside to hear the last of the Stoneground ghost tales by EG Swain, the story of The Kirk Spook!

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HYPNOGORIA 107 - Ghostly Rules and Dead Rooms

In the last episode of the festive season, and indeed of the year, Mr Jim Moon takes a look at what makes a good Christmas ghost story. We have a chat about the latest BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, The Dead Room starring Simon Callow and written and directed by Mark Gatiss, which aired this Christmas Eve. And then we hear from the master of the ghost story himself, MR James, with three readings of various essays and articles where he outlined his own rules for writing ghost stories. 

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 54 - The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin

In our fourth ghost story for Christmas, we take a trip away for the Yuletide to go stay in a country house, with good company, good friends, lots of snow and the appearance of the family ghost...

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 53 - Smee by AM Burrage

A ghost story for Christmas... Christmas is a time for party games, however this one has a most unusual twist to it...  

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 52 - Number Ninety by BM Croker

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

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HYPNOGORIA 104 - The Stalls of Barchester (1971)

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.

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FROM THE GREAT LIBRARY OF DREAMS 51 - The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral 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 

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COMING THIS DECEMBER!

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

• On the 2nd of December, come with Mr Jim Moon to investigate on the most famous haunted houses of the 1970s, with a look back at the  creepy comedy series The Ghosts of Motley Hall! 
• As is traditional we have selection of ghostly tales for Christmas, and of course no Yuletide season is complete without some MR James! Join us on the 6th to discover the horrors that lurk in The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
• Meanwhile on the 9th of December, we take a look at that story's televisual incarnation and the first episode of the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas series - The Stalls of Barchester  from 1971, starring Robert Hardy! 

• We've got blockbuster action too! It's festive fun for all the family with the Joe Dante classic Gremlins! Catch it at the Commentary Club on December 11th! 
• The 13th of December proves to be a very unlucky night! Discover what happens when you take Christmas bet to stay overnight in a haunted house in the Victorian chiller Number Ninety! 
• 16th December! Every one love party games at Christmas so prepare a new one in the the AM Burrage short shocker Smee !
• Meanwhile on 18th Teresa and Jim summon up the Yuletide spirits with a viewing of  the 1984 version of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol starring the incomparable George C Scott as Scrooge! 

• Fancy getting away from it for Christmas! Well, on 20th December take a trip with us out a country house for an old fashioned Christmas complete with a family ghost in The Real and the Counterfeit by Louisa Baldwin! 
• And finally, just before Christmas Eve, Mr Jim Moon invites you all on a festive ghost hunt, travelling around the British Isles searching out the spectres that walk at Christmas time!

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HYPNOGORIA 79 - Oh Whistle And I'll Commentate On You My Lad

In this episode, Mr Jim Moon provides a hopefully illuminating commentary on the classic BBC TV adaptation of MR James's famous ghost story Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You My Lad. Directed by Dr Jonathan Miller, this short film version first screened in 1968 as part of the BBC art show Omnibus and would go one to inspire the creation of the BBC's classic annual series A Ghost Story for Christmas.

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HYPNOBOBS 60 - Christmas Spirits Part II - Ghost of Christmas Television Past

In the second part of our Yuletide festivities, Mr Jim Moon takes an epic length look back at all the various ghostly tales that have haunted our televisions in Christmases past. Featuring productions by luminaries such as Lawrence Gordon Clarke, Dr Jonathan Miller, Nigel Kneale and Mark Gatiss, plus many diverse adaptations of classics by MR James and old favourites like The Turn of the Screw.

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