HANDS OF ORLAC (1960) Mel Ferrer, Christopher Lee, Donald Wolfit, Dany Carrel.  An outstanding remake of “Mad Love” with Ferrer as the tortured pianist with the transplanted hands of a criminal.  THE TELL-TALE HEART (1960) Lawrence Payne, Dermot Walsh, Selma Vaz Dias, John Scott.  A very unusual and very entertaining adaptation of the classic Poe story.  A shy loner discovers the girl he loves in the arms of his best friend.  Murder and horror follow in dramatic fashion...

THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1959) Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Leslie Daniels, Marilyn Hanold. UNCUT! Ludicrous sleazy schlock at its absolute best. A severed head, a mad scientist, a gross looking monster, two battling strippers... Plus: JACK THE RIPPER (1959) Lee Paterson, Eddie Byrne, Ewen Solon. “Jack” commits a series of gruesome slayings

THE EMBALMER (1966) Maureen Brown, Gin Mart, Luciano Gasper, Anita Todesco.  A horrible fiend is on the loose under the streets of Venice.  He pulls beautiful girls down into murky canals that catacomb the sewers of the ancient Italian city.  PLUS:  THE SHE BEAST (1966) Barbara Steele, Ian Ogilvy, John Karlson, Mel Welles, directed by Michael Reeves.  Villagers hunt down and drown an 18th century witch.  Centuries later, Barb and her hubby vacation in the area.  Their car crashes into the lake at the very spot that the witch was killed...

WHAT! (1963) Christopher Lee, Tony Kendall, Daliah Lavi, Harriet White, directed by Mario Bava.  The setting is a sinister castle.  Lee is a sadistic noble who whips the wife of his brother.  Chris is later found dead, but his ghost comes back to haunt the castle.  PLUS:  TERROR IN THE CRYPT (1963) Christopher Lee, Ursula Davis, Jose Campos.  Lee is Count Karnstein, living with his daughter in a crumbling castle.  Decades earlier, a witch put a death curse on their family.  

THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED UP ZOMBIES (1963) Ray Stecker, Carolyn Brandt, Brett O'Hara.  Ray’s a drifter who’s drawn to an eerie sideshow where he's hypnotized by a gypsy and turned into a murdering zombie.  Hidden in cages are other zombies whose faces have been disfigured with acid by the gypsy and her hunchback.  PLUS:  THE THRILL KILLERS (1965) Ray Steckler, Brick Bardo, Herb Robins, Liz Renay, Carolyn Brandt.  A nail-biting story of a psycho  who kills to satisfy his perverse hatred toward all people.  Also on the loose is his loony tunes brother and his ax-wielding buddies...

HORROR CASTLE (1963) Christopher Lee, George Riviere, Rossana Podesta. There’s a monster afoot! A beautiful lady finds herself completely terrified inside a crumbling castle. Plus: CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD (1964) Christopher Lee, Gaia Germani, Donald Sutherland. A troupe of entertainers finds themselves in peril as guests in Lee's mysterious old castle

(1966, Upgraded 10/30/21) 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. Things get nutty when some of the girls die mysteriously. A hunchback killer is on the loose! Scotland Yard is called. More murders occur, the screams of...

(1968, aka THE ZOMBIE WALKS) Joachim Fuchsberger, Siw Mattson, Wolfgang Kieling, Pinkas Braun.  Another great German-made Constantin Films Edgar Wallace chiller.  When a laughing corpse comes back to life to kill its heirs, Scotland Yard is called in. The “undead” killer is dressed up in a skeleton outfit and kills...

(1968, Upgraded 10/31/21) Horst Tapper, Uschi Glas, Uwe Friedrichsen, Herbert Fux, Hubert von Meyerinck. A killer gorilla stalks the dark streets of London, murdering unsuspecting victims. All the victims have agreed to donate their money to a charitable organization in the event of...

(1968, Upgrade 10/31/21) Heinz Drache, Karin Baal, Horst Tappert, Siegfried Schurenberg, Agnes Windeck. Beautiful Karin Baal inherits the mysterious old Blackwood castle. She is pressured to sell the place, but refuses. Exacerbating the situation is the fact that dead bodies are starting to pile up, their flesh torn from attacks by a...

(1972, Upgraded 12/28/20) Antonio Sabato, Uschi Glass, Rossella Falk, Pier Paolo Copponi. A black-gloved killer is on the loose, leaving crescent moon medallions at the scene of his killings. Sabato and Glass are the...

(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...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. “Horror Gems, Vol. Five features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre’s best authors

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Six" features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre’s best authors

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Seven, Robert Bloch & Others" features another excellent anthology of stories by some of horror’s b

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Eight, Algernon Blackwood & Others" features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre’s best...

Armchair Fiction presents paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Nine, Emil Petaja & Others" features a terrific selection of shockers by some of the genre’s best authors. Watch out for sneaky stalkers, wicked Wraiths, and singing stiffs. Yes…you can forget skeletons in the closet...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. One" features works by August Derleth, Carl Jacobi, Seabury Quinn, Emil Pet