(Upgraded 5/31/24)   NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Marilyn Eastman.  We thought it would be very appropriate to have one of the greatest horror films of all time on our bi-centennial double feature.  A great, great film. SATANIK (1968, Anamorphic Widescreen) Julio Pena, Madge Kabopka, Umberto Raho, Armando Calvo. A hideously ugly woman drinks a potion for beauty. Her scheme eventually backfires though, as the potion loses potency and she transforms into an ugly monster... 

SLAUGHTER OF THE VAMPIRES (1962) Walter Brandi, Dieter Eppler, Graziella Granata, Luigi Batzella, Gena Gimmy.  This Italian vampire film deals with a number of horrible vampires who are seeking fresh victims.   DUNGEON OF HARROW (1962) Russ Harvey, Helen Morgan, William McNulty. Stranded on a lost island in a sinister castle, a man finds himself at odds with an evil count...

DR. FRANKENSTEIN ON CAMPUS (1970) Robin Ward, Kathleen Sawyer, Austin Willis.  Ward plays a Frankenstein descendent who develops a wireless brain control device, which he uses to turn one of his college pals into a mindless slave.  THE BODY BENEATH (1970, Widescreen) Gavin Reed, Jackie Skarvellis, Berwick Kale.  This Andy Milligan grade-Z gem is all about a clan of vampires that takes over an estate that just happens to be known as... 

ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN (1979, WIDESCREEN) Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Barbara Bach. A prisoner ship sinks in the Caribbean.  The ship’s doctor and a number of prisoners make shore on a jungle island where a madman—with the aid of a mad scientist—changes natives into fish-like monsters. VAMPIRE HOOKERS (1979, WIDESCREEN) John Carradine, Bruce Fairbaim, Trey Wilson, Karen Stride.  Carradine plays an old-age vampire who has a bevy of vampire beauties at his beck and call...

ALIAS JOHN PRESTON (1956) Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Alexander Knox.  Lee, tormented by bizarre, murderous dreams about a woman from his past, eventually transforms into a Jekyll and Hyde type with an urge to kill.  Knox is the psychological counsellor who tries who suspects something's amiss.  PLUS:  FRIGHT (1956) Eric Fleming, Nancy Malone, Dean Almquist.  This eerie film had a most unusual premise: a lady thinks she’s the reincarnation of an ancient prince’s elicit lover.  At the same time, a killer turns out to be the reincarnation of the prince!  Fleming Is the who tries to figure it all out—and solve some murders to boot!  

DAUGHTER OF DARKNESS (1948) Maxwell Reed, Siobhan McKenna, Anne Crawford, Honor Blackman.  McKenna is brilliant as an insane killer.  Reed is a carnival boxer who falls under her spell and ends up hideously scarred from her jagged fingernails.  Soon, young men turn up slain.  PLUS:  THE MONKEY’S PAW (1948) Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins, Michael Harvey, Eric Micklewood.  A man obtains a dead monkey’s magical paw.  He is bestowed three wishes. His first wish is to be debt-free.  The wish is granted, but the price is his son’s life.  The next wish is for the son to be returned to life—but the price is truly horrible...

THE HEADLESS EYES (1971) Bo Brundin, Ramon Gordon, Kelly Swartz.  A down-on-his luck artist gets more than he bargained for in a failed robbery attempt—an eye gouged out with a spoon!  With his eye hanging out and dangling by the nerve, he screams into the night!  He then goes nuts and turns to killing women and cutting their eyes out.  PLUS:  THE GHASTLY ONES (1968) Veronica Radburn, Maggie Rogers, Hal Borske, directed by Andy Milligan.  Three couples spend the night in a creepy Victorian house in order to claim their inheritance.  Before long, they start dying horribly at the hand of a knife-and-pitchfork-wielding psycho who wants their inheritance...

THE MAGIC SERPENT (1966, WIDESCREEN) Hiroki Matsukata, Tomoko Ogawa, Ryutaro Otomo.  In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by a treacherous lord and his sorcerer.  Years later, an epic battle ensues between the prince and the sorcerer.  PLUS:  THE WITCH (1966) Richard Johnson, Rossanna Schiaffino, Sarah Ferrati.  A young historian is brought to a magnificent palatial estate to assemble the largely erotic memoirs of a deceased general.  There he falls in love with a beautiful witch... 

Armchair Fiction presents paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories, complete with many original illustrations.  Here it is, the lucky 13^th Horror Gems collection, featuring ten tasty terrors to make you tremble.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles...

THE MURDER CLINIC (1966, WIDESCREEN) Williams Berger, Barbara Wilson, Mary Young. Dr. Vance owns a clinic for the mentally ill located in a gloomy forest.  Unfortunately, there’s a hooded killer on the grounds, slashing people to death with a straight razor. PLUS:  THE DEVIL’S MISTRESS (1966) Joan Stapleton, Robert Gregory, Wes Morland.  An Old West horror film about a female vampire who has a passion for unsuspecting cowboys and soon takes revenge on the four thugs who murdered her husband in cold blood...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Fourteen" is our latest collection of sinister stories by some of horror’s top-of-the-line authors:  Robert Bloch, Manly Banister, Theodore Sturgeon, Allison V. Harding, Manly Wade Wellman, Carl Jacobi, and others...

This is the second of two Horror Gems collections celebrating the classic works of Weird Tales, the Best of 1923, Part Two, Otis Adelbert Kline and others.  With so many great tales to cull from the annals of Weird Tales’ inaugural year, there was just no way they could all be contained in one volume, so we’ve collected more of those delectable 1923 fright stories to help you lose plenty of sleep at night...  

This is the first of two Horror Gems collections celebrating the classic works of “The Unique Magazine,” Weird Tales, featuring Seabury Quinn and others.  The year was 1923 when tales took a turn for the weird with the launch of the world’s first genre pulp magazine, Weird Tales; and here we have a collection of the weirdest and most spine tingling of the first year...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Fifteen" has more fright night fodder.  If you’re one of those people who like to sit around and read scary stories on a dark, dreary, windy, stormy night, then this collection is definitely for you.  It’s filled with a variety of different terrors—all succulent and done to a turn...

THE BURNING COURT (1962) Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Edith Scob.  This Euro-chiller has a most interesting combination of “old dark house" and “witch’s curse” themes.  PLUS:  THE NIGHT THEY KILLED RASPUTIN (1962) John Drew Barrymore, Edmund Purdom, Gianna Canale.  An atmospheric retelling of the rise and fall of Rasputin, whose seemingly supernatural powers made the czarina his hypnotic slave... 

THE AMAZING WORLD OF GHOSTS (1978) Narr. by Sid Paul. This schlockumentary explores haunted houses, ghosts, UFOs, etc.  PLUS:  UFO TARGET EARTH (1974) Nick Pakias, Cynthia Cline, LaVerne Light, Phil Erickson.  This ‘70s oddity is about an electronics pro who spends his time searching for evidence of space aliens...

FACE OF TERROR (1962) Lisa Gaye, Fernando Rey, Virgilio Teixeira.  Scientist Rey takes a young but crazed woman and transforms her disfigured face into a thing of beauty. PLUS:  NO PLACE LIKE HOMICIDE (1961) Kenneth Connor, Sid James, Shirley Eaton, Michael Gough. A man shows up at the sinister home of his dead uncle to claim his inheritance...

NEUTRON AND THE BLACK MASK (1962) Wolf Rubinski, Julio Aleman, Armando Silvestre, Rosa Arenas.  Our black-masked atomic super hero takes on a gang of thugs who are conspiring to steal a formula for a neutron explosive.  PLUS:  NEUTRON VS. THE AMAZING DR. CARONTE (1962) Wolf Rubinski, Julio Aleman, Rosita Arenas.  Our favorite south-of-the-border super hero, Neutron, locks horns again with the insane Dr. Caronte...