(1939) Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor, Robert Adair, Harry Terry. If you've never seen a Slaughter film before, this is the one to start with. There's a monster, a mad killer, and a crazed scientist experimenting with the reanimation of the dead.  The victims often see the face of a misshapen monster leering in their windows, momments before they...

HORROR MANIACS (1948, aka THE GREED OF WILLIAM HART) Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn.  Tod's up to his maniacal tricks again in this grisly bodysnatching tale.  PLUS:  THE MONKEY’S PAW (1948) Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins, Michael Harvey. This engrossing British chiller is based on the classic horror tale by W.W. Jacobs. A man comes into possession of a withered, but magical paw of a dead monkey. From this paw he is bestowed three wishes...

(1939) Bela Lugosi, Greta Gynt, Hugh Williams, Wilfred Walter, Edmon Ryan. One of the best shockers of the '30's.  Dr. Orloff, gleefully murders people and throws them into the Thames mud flats—all so he can claim their life insurance...

CARRY ON SCREAMING (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kenneth Williams, Fenella Fielding, Harry Corbett, Jim Dale. This is a fine British horror comedy much in the same vein as The Addams Family and The Munsters. The evil Dr Watt is abducting young ladies and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores! PLUS: MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY (1965) Vic McGee, James Raison, Dave Hewitt.  Teenage girls invade a 'haunted house' to find a mad doctor conducting weird experiments.  

ALICE, OR THE LAST ESCAPADE (1977, Anamorphic) Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Ferdinand Ledoux, Francois Perrot. A woman drives through the night on a lonely road.  After a breakdown, she seeks help from a strange man and his butler who reside in a nearby creepy mansion.  FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON (1976, Anamorphic) Florinda Balkon, Klaus Kinski, John Karlsen, Peter McEnery. An astronaut is purposely left on the moon as part of a bizarre experiment... 

THE AMAZING MR. X (1948) Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Richard Carlson, Cathy O'Donnell. A very underrated film.  Bari plays a woman is haunted by the spectre of her dead husband.  She follows what she thinks is his spirit onto a lonely beach on a moonlit night and runs into a handsome spiritualist. ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1947) Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dennis O’Keefe, Henry Daniell. Two soldiers are captured by strange warriors and taken to the lost land of Atlantis.  It is ruled over by a beautiful but ruthless queen who surrounds herself with the mummies of past lovers... 

BLOOD DEMON (1967, Anamorphic) Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Carl Lange.  Barker sentences Lee, the evil Count Regula, to death for slaying 12 virgins.  Many years later, Lee returns from the dead to claim revenge on Barker’s son. THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO (1968, Anamorphic) Gunther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch. Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls... 

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...

(1963) Hans Söhnker, Peter Vogel, Helga Sommerfeld, Werner Peters.  A fine chiller from the pen of bryan Edgar Wallace. A strip club is the setting for a Scotland Yard investigation of murders committed by a hooded killer in a skull mask, usually in the vicinity of...

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... 

THE CHASE (1946, United Artists) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan. Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as overdressed psychos. PLUS:  SHOCK (1946, Fox) Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore. A woman goes into catatonic shock after seeing a brutal murder. When she comes to, she discovers her doctor is the killer!

SEVEN BLOOD-STAINED ORCHIDS (1972, Anamorphic) Antonio Sabato, Uschi Glass, Rossella Falk. A black-gloved killer is on the loose, leaving crescent moon medallions at the scene of his killings. PLUS:  HORROR EXPRESS (1972, Anamorphic) Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalis.  An ancient monster is found frozen in a glacier by Lee and his excavation team.  It’s being shipped back to civilization on board the Trans-Siberian express when it returns to life and...

(1936, aka THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND) Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop, Lyn Harding. Karloff does in this role, what Lugosi did in his role as Dr. Vollin in THE RAVEN. He lets it all hang out as he plays the mad Dr. Laurience, who invents a fantastic device that...

THE NUDE VAMPIRE (1969) Olivier Martin, Maurice Lemaitre, Caroline Cartier.  A beautiful vampire woman gets involved with a playboy whose father is experimenting with artificial youth.  PLUS:  DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1969) Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Karin Dor.  Rennie is an alien scientist whose race is set to invade Earth.  His mission is to revive Earth’s legendary monsters to assist him in the invasion.  His grisly lineup is amazing:  Frankenstein, Dracula, the Werewolf, and the Mummy. 

THE STRANGER (1973) Glenn Corbett, Cameron Mitchell, Lew Ayres, Sharon Acker, Dean Jagger.  After a mishap in space Corbett finds himself in a strange hospital where no one can give him any answers.  PLUS  CROWHAVEN FARM (1970) Hope Lange, Paul Burke, John Carradine, Lloyd Bochner. Lange and hubby inherit a strange old farm.  She soon sees visions of ancient settlers doing weird things with rocks and wooden doors...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Twelve" is a terrific anthology of shuddery tales by some of horror’s best writers, featuring the very underrated and unsung Weird Tales veteran, Allison V. Harding.  In this collection you’ll find that terror can take many forms...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Eleven" features another excellent anthology of stories by some of horror’s best writers, such as Thorp McClusky, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber and many others...