Armchair Fiction features the best in classic horror and fantasy short story collections.  "Allison V. Harding, the Forgotten Queen of Horror” features some of the best horror tales of the 1940s and 1950s.  Who was Allison V. Harding?  Not much is known about her personal life, but the one thing we do know is that you almost couldn’t pick up an issue of Weird Tales from 1943 through 1950 and not come across one of her stories...

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(1954) Giuli Chokhonelidze, Konstantin Russu, Nodar Shashigoglu, directed by Sergei Parajanov.  A young shepherd is given a magic woodwind instrument to help him conquer his foes.  This movie is filled with dark fantasy and has its fair share of creepy moments.  Look for evil wizards, storm demons—even flying sheep...!  

(1957, aka Ninjutsu Gozen-Jiai) Koji Arima, Sentarô Fushimi, Masao Hori. This supernatural thriller is about two feuding clans in ancient Japan.  Complicating things is a child who is taken hostage by one of the families.  In the film’s exciting climax, both families are represented by their top Ninja warriors.  The Ninja’s have a wide variety of uncanny powers, including invisibility and teleportation.  Also on hand are numerous horrific creatures...

(1952) Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd, William Tubbs, Giovanni Amato, Helen Tubbs.  A devil comes to Earth and bestows upon a photographer's camera the power to destroy any and all evildoers.  The photographer uses this “machine” selectively at first, but the more he uses it the more evil seems to pour out of people until at last he decides to destroy almost everyone in his village... 

(1967) Hae Hwang, Ae-ran Jeong, Mi-ae Kang, Do Kum-Bong, No-shik Park.  This Asian chiller has all kinds of grisly stuff:  Acid thrown in the face, eyes being gouged out, the horror of drug addition, vengeful ghosts, etc.  The plot is pretty simple, a former geisha girl takes her life because she’s essentially lost her husband to the wanton lure of a servant girl.  But like in any good Asian ghost story, revenge is a must!  So...

(1967) Ryôhei Uchida, Kôtarô Satomi, Kyoko Mikage, Hiroshi Nawa, Tatsuo Matsumura.  In ancient Japan, a treasonous underling overthrows his master.  He buries his former boss, alive, inside a wall.  When he takes after the wife, she drowns herself in a nearby swamp along with her cat, thus cursing the swamp for all time...

THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE (1935) Anton Walbrook, Dorothea Wieck, Theodor Loos, Erich Fiedler. A magnificent horror-fantasy film!  The setting is Prague in the 1860s.  Walbrook plays Balduin, a handsome young student.  Into his life walks a beautiful singer named Julia. But hovering over her life is the sinister Dr. Carpis, a Satan-like figure who’s more of a human shadow than a flesh-and-blood being...

WINTER OF THE WITCH (1969) Hermione Gingold, Anna Strasberg, Roger Morgan, Jack Manning, narrated by Burgess Meredith.  In this critically acclaimed film, the life of a gnarly old witch is disrupted by the unannounced arrival of a boy and his mother. Their presence makes life hell for her and forces her to struggle with the realities of the modern world...

(1936) Harry Baur, Roger Karl, Charles Dorat, Germaine Aussey, Ferdinand Hart, Jany Holt.  It is a time of great persecution of the Jews by the Emperor (marvelously played by Baur) in Prague.  A rabbi has promised that the Golem—whose body is now hidden and dormant—will return for justice if things reach a breaking point...

(1952) Mirja Mane, Toivo Makela, Hillevi Lagerstam, Sakari Jurkka. One of the most remarkable films we’ve seen in 30 years of business. An archaeological team unearths the body of an ancient witch an

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