(1939) Aleksandr Shchagin, Sergey Martinson, Olga Shaganova-Obraztsova, Georgiy Uvarov, Mikhail Dagmarov.  This marvelous Russian fantasy is similar to Pinocchio.  It’s a combination of live action and animation and it’s filled with fantastic characters and magical moments...

(1935) Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Ben Field, Mary Clare, Jane Baxter, Felix Aylmer.  Rains is brilliant as a sideshow mind reader whose powers turn out to be real. Soon he is making a plethora of accurate predictions—deaths, accidents, horse racing results, etc.  However, he is unable to control his prophecies until he...

(1946) Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova.  Simply put, this is a brilliant, beautiful-to-look-at fantasy of the highest order.  You will be enchanted with the dreamlike quality of this film.  It’s like watching a sublime painting that’s come to life.  A wonderful music score enhances the splendor of this classic film.  It is a simple tale of...

(1950) Rade Markovic, Vera Ilic-Djukic, Milivoje Zivanovic, Marko Marinkovic.  Here’s another upper tier Euro-fantasy classic you’ll not soon forget.  It’s filled with incredible sets, wonderful characters, beautiful music, great B&W cinematography, etc.  All in all it’s a delightfully atmospheric film.  The scene is set quickly as a young boy stumbles into a crumbling, snow-covered castle atop a mountain spire, laden with skulls and cobwebs...

(1981) Lucy McGrath, Paul Farrell, Lee Hatherly, Paul Jenden.  On Christmas Eve, a little girl awakens thinking she hears Santa Claus (Father Christmas) entering the house.  What she finds is a weird monster who pleads for her to help defeat an evil witch...

(1970, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mikhail Pugovkin, Tatyana Klyuyeva, Georgiy Millyar, Anatoliy Kubatskiy, Lidiya Korolyova.  A magical underworld king demands that the Czar give up his only son upon his 18^th birthday.  The Czar attempts to fool the king with some tomfoolery involving identity-switching between his son and a “commoner.”  Complications arise when the daughter of the king...

(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

ONCE IN A NEW MOON (1934, Updated 4-10-24) Eliot Makeham, Rene Ray, Morton Selten.  A dead star approaches Earth.  As it passes by, some kind of gravitational pull breaks off a small chunk of the Earth and hurls it into space, where it becomes a new small moon of sorts.  There’s a little coastal town on that chunk, but it takes a while for the villagers to figure out what the hell’s going on...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic horror and fantasy short story collections, complete with original illustrations. “Masters of Horror, Vol. Four: Arthur J. Burks, the Wizard of Weird Tales” contains fourteen superb tales of horror by another great Weird Tales alumnus...

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 classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Veteran science fiction author Arthur J. Burk’s “Survival” is the lead off tale in this double novel. Was the last of mankind rushing blindly toward its destruction? The second tale in this great double novel is “Double Identity” penned by one of the better science fiction authors of the 20th Century, Raymond Z. Gallun. While humans enjoyed all that life on Earth had to offer, the creatures of the moon were struggling to survive...

Armchair Fiction presents paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories, complete with many original illustrations.  Here it is, the lucky 13^th Horror Gems collection, featuring ten tasty terrors to make you tremble.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and horror double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is P. F. Costello’s “The Devil Downstairs.” All hell was about to break loose.  Old Scratch, the Prince of Darkness, Lord of the Flies, Lucifer, Satan—THE DEVIL HIMSELF—was nothing like the red, pitchfork-baring imp of lore, but was a putrid beast of green whose small body was covered in gnarled hair.  The second novel is “Invaders from the Dark” by Weird Tales veteran Greye La Spina.  She had the attributes of horror itself:  devilish eyes that glittered like an unholy garnet in the dark...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The leadoff novel is “Space-Liner X-87” by heralded science fiction author, Ray Cummings. There was a murder mystery on board X-87! Under the guise of a mathematics clerk, special agent Fred Penelle boarded the X-87 with the mission of uncovering an interplanetary plot. The second novel is Amazing Stories veteran Earl L. Bell’s “The Moon of Doom.” The end was nigh! The change had begun simply, with nothing more than the sun rising three minutes later than usual...

Armchair Fiction presents paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories, complete with many original illustrations.  "Horror Gems, Vol. Ten" features a great selection of chillers by some of horrordom’s best, with grim tales to nourish the “twisted” part of the human mind...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The leadoff novel is “The Secret of Elena’s Tomb” by Karl Tanzler von Cosel. This is a novelized true story of death and rejuvenation. And readers beware, this frightfully delicious tale of love, obsession, and science gone mad is morbidly true and not for the faint of heart.  The second novel is Amazing Stories regular Leroy Yerxa’s “Witch of Blackfen Moor.” Summoned just before midnight, Doctor Thaddius Quantry raced to the looming fortress of Blackfen manor, which stood in the desolation of the moors as an unwavering beacon in the darkness. As he neared the manor, an agonized scream broke through the eerie stillness of the moor.

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