Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Three" 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 science fiction short stories. "Science Fiction Gems, Vol. Three" features works by C. M. Kornbluth, Stanley Mullen, Clifford D. Simak, Milton Lesser

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... 

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “A Queen of Atlantis” by Frank Aubrey is the 40th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Aubrey, the author of “The Devil Tree of Eldorado,” (Armchair B-79) has ventured again to write a wild and romantic tale of adventure.  The gallant little ship Saucy Fan started from Liverpool for Rio de Janeiro, with a party of four lively young people...

(1935, Upgraded 11/27/22) Conrad Veidt, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier, Anna Lee, Beatrix Lehmann, John Turnbull, Cathleen Nesbit, Ronald Ward. You've simply never seen this wonderful British fantasy-drama from such a beautiful print. The setting is an old boardinghouse filled with a variety of people, all with different problems. They're lorded over by an evil, mephisto-like slum lord. The tenants' lives are changed forever by the arrival of a...

(1937, aka THE STORY OF THE FOX) Romain Bouquet, Claude Daupihn, Raine, Sylvain Etkine, Robert Seller, Leon Larive. Tale of the Fox is without a doubt one of the most unique fantasies ever filmed.  With production beginning in 1930, this is one of the best examples of early stop-motion animation with puppets you will ever see...  

RIP VAN WYK (1960, aka RIP VAN WINKLE) Jamie Uys, Wynona Cheyney, Willem Loots.  This movie has little to do with the Rip Van Winkle story.  It’s actually a time travel movie. Set in 1859, Uys hurtles 100 years into the future.  He awakens, un-aged, in 1959—a strange, modern world.  The film gives a very interesting perspective about how someone from the past would react to all things modern—automobiles, radios, TVs, clothing, etc...

(1942, Upgraded 10/14,21) Arthur Askey, Evelyn Dall, Al Burnett, Max Bacon, Peter Graves. This top comedy fantasy has a meek soldier saving his pals with a sword he believes to be Excalibur. Is it real?  The final scene has a real...

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...

THE STOLEN AIRSHIP (1967, Widescreen Edition) Hanus Bor, Jan Cizek, Cestmír Randa, Jan Malat, Michal Pospisil.  A marvelous science fiction epic and a group of children who make off with a futuristic airship from a county fair.  They then set out on a series of amazing exploits, all set against some of the most amazing stop-motion animation you will ever see...

MEET MR. LUCIFER (1953) Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson, Charles Victor, Ernest Thesiger.  In this unique fantasy, Holloway plays an aging actor who hates television and what it’s done to his stage career.  When he carelessly dies in a stage accident, the devil gives him a chance to return to the living...

(1948) Roger Livesay, Petula (Downtown) Clark, Anthony Newley, Kay Walsh, David Hutcheson, directed by Peter Ustinov.  A most enjoyable British fantasy about a magic stone that makes the soul and personality of a pompous British father change places with his schoolboy son...

(1948) Kirby Grant, Eddie Parkes, Jean Mowry, Joe Giles, Calvin Thomas.   This film was intended as a safety film, but it also comes off as a fantasy.  Grant plays a farmer whose life is saved from a tractor accident by his guardian angel (Parkes) who then meddles in his life, protecting him from his own stupidity...

(1949, Upgraded 11/9/24) Karel Hoger, Florence Marly, Eduard Linkers, Natasa Tanska. “Krakatit” is the ultimate explosive, greater than the A-bomb, discovered by a scientist named Prokop. Prokop has hallucinations a

THE MAGIC SERPENT—Widescreen Edition (1966) Hiroki Matsukata, Tomoko Ogawa, Ryutaro Otomo.  A young prince embarks on a quest to avenge the deaths of his parents, as well as a good wizard who had once saved his life.   An epic battle soon ensues between the prince and the sorcerer.  This is a beautiful production and there are enough giant monsters to make anyone happy...