(1969, aka Secret Chronicles of the Ghost-Cat) Kojiro Hongo, Naomi Kobayashi, Mitsuyo Kamei, Ikuko Mori. A brilliant Japanese vengeful ghost story. An evil lord covets the sister of a blind monk. W

HAUNTED PALACE (1949) Shaw Desmond, Helene Coomey. This featurette is a ghost story vignette. Plus:  WHO KILLED DOC ROBBIN? (1948) Virginia Grey, George Zucco, Don Castle.  Zucco is his sinister self again in this entertaining chiller about a killer ape who terrorizes a gang of kids in a haunted mansion...

(1959, upgraded 8/31/23) Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Paul Dahlke, Herlmut Schmid, Christiane Maybach, Michel Simon. Another must-see film! A serum that keeps severed portions of the human body alive is used by a mad doctor on its own inventors decapitated head. Horst Frank, as Dr. Ood, is a total nut-job and gives what is easily one of the best mad scientist portrayals of the 1950s.  The insane purpose of his experiments is to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.  Creepy and atmospheric. A very gothic sci-fi horror film and one that we highly recommended. Please note that our version, which is completely uncut and in English, has the original U.S. Trans-Lux opening and closing titles.  From a beautiful 35mm print.

(1950) BLutz Moik, Hanna Rucker, Paul Bildt, Eva Probst, Paul Esser.  This is a marvelous fantasy with horror elements.  Moik (a Horst Buchholz lookalike) is a frustrated Black Forest laborer whose impoverished situation deters him from marriage.  He receives two wishes from the good spirit of the forest, which will pave his way to happiness.  But when one of his wishes backfires...

(1974, Anamorphic Widescreen) Bill Greer, Deedy Peters, Lynne Marta, Jim Dean, Tony Reese, Dorothy Green. What we’ve got here is a good old-fashioned, American-made drive-in horror schlockfest that undoubtedly would have made guys chuckle with delight as their girlfriends squirmed in their car seats. The opening scene has a couple of teenage lovers making out in their car when suddenly…a monster pops up...

(1964) Robert Parsons, Abbey Heller, Alexander Panas, Vincent Petti, Beverly Lane.  A grade Z classic!  The new bride of a strange sculptor finds her new life filled with horror.  It seems many of her husband’s friends want her dead.  But why...?  

(1974 aka DEVIL TIMES FIVE, Upgraded 12/30/20) Gene Evans, Sorrell Booke, Leif Garrett, Taylor Lacher, Joan McCall, Shelley Morrison. A macabre story of torture and murder at a mountain refuge. The culprits are five children who have escaped from a psycho ward. There are some pretty grim...

(1971, Anamorphic Widescreen) Wal Davis, Barta Barri, Anastasio Campoy, Susan Carvasal, Victor Davis.  In spite of its rather lurid title, this is really a pretty good movie, similar in some ways to The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler.  A horrible series of killings, committed over a period of seven days, has been happening once every 28 years since the 1800s.  A baron-turned-vampire is...

(1963, aka VIRGIN OF NUREMBURG, Upgraded 12/28/20) Christopher Lee, George Riviere, Rossana Podesta, directed by Antonio Margheriti. A wonderful, atmospheric horror film. A beautiful lady finds herself completely terrified inside her hubby's creepy, crumbling castle. There's a monster afoot...

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...

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...  

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 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...

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...

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. Four" features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre’s best autho

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...