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(Upgraded 5/21/24) THE KILLER SHREWS (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) James Best, Ingrid Goulde, Gordon Mclendon, Ken Curtis. "The shrews devour everything…flesh, bones, marrow…everything.” THE GIANT GILA MONSTER (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher.  A gigantic lizard is running amok!

(Upgraded 5/21/24) CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961, Anamorphic) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Morland, Edward Wain.  Another of Roger Corman's horror comedies.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real.   PLUS:  DEVIL’S PARTNER (1958, Anamorphic) Edwin Nelson, Edgar Buchannon, Jean Allison, Richard Crane.  A strange man comes to a small desert town and brings along satanic rites, evil spells and death!  

(Upgraded 5/27/24) ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES (1959, Anamorphic) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. A BUCKET OF BLOOD (1959, Anamorphic) Dick Miller, Barbara Morris, Antony Carbone, Ed Nelson, Judy Bamber. A truly great “cult” film.

(Upgraded 6/1/23) ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE (1962, Anamorphic) Rick Von Nutter, Archie Savage. Pure sci-fi with excellent Cinematography. THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961, Anamorphic) Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Dolores Faith, Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman. Pure sci-fi with excellent Cinematography. A gigantic force field on a runaway space station threatens Earth.

(Upgraded 5/24/24) THE WASP WOMAN (1959, Anamorphic) Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Fred Eisley, directed by Roger Corman. Extremely well done, low budget drive-in sci-fi. Plus:  BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (1959, Anamorphic) Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff. Gangsters hiding in a mountain cabin are being killed off by a horrible monster that lives in a nearby cave.

(Upgraded 5/25/24) BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1959, Anamorphic) Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Arden, Vladimir Solokoff, directed By Edgar G. Ulmer. A jet pilot from the 20th century breaks through a time barrier.  Plus: THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1959, Anamorphic) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd Morgan. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. 

(Upgraded 5/24/24)THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD (1957, Anamorphic) John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates.  No classic, but this is probably director Jerry Warren's best film.  The survivors of a wrecked diving bell face perils in a strange, underground world.  TEENAGE ZOMBIES (1957, Anamorphic) Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor.  Thrill-seeking teenagers take a boat ride out to a strange island.  To their horror, they’re captured by a lady mad doctor who uses nerve gas to turn a people into mindless slaves...  

(1941-1966) Here's a bundle of SIX fantastic classics, all featuring mad scientists and other science created monstrosities—and all for just $49 postpaid!  You get:  ISLAND OF TERROR (1966) THE KILLER SHREWS (1959) THE MANSTER (1959) BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (1959) MONSTROSITY (1963) THE DEVIL BAT (1941) See more...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Mónica Randall.  Franco and Ciccio (the Martin and Lewis of Italy) are actually pretty funny.  They have a certain shtick that works. The boys are sent into space to imitate a pair of lost Soviet spacemen...

(1960, Upgraded 12/29/20) Peter Van Eyck, Gerte Frobe, Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters. Fritz Lang’s swan song with the fiendish Dr. Mabuse committing a series of murders in a Posh hotel that is filled with all kinds of strange scientific gadgets. Van Eyk plays the rich American who...

 (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris, Gordon Mitchell. A beautiful upgrade from our previous master and much, much better than the 1:33 versions that are around.  Aliens from the planet Hydra land on Earth and kidnap a group of humans...

(1916) Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Matt Moore, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton.  NEW MUSIC SCORE! This, the first filmed version of the Verne classic, portrays Captain Nemo as an opium-smoking, ousted Indian (India) prince.  His goal, outside of sinking many ships, is very personal...

(1963 aka MECHTE NAVSTRECHU) Larisa Gordeichik, Boris Borisyonok, Otar Koberidze, Peeter Kard.  After receiving radio waves from our solar system, the inhabitants of planet Centuria send out a starship toward Earth.  Dues to technical problems, though, their starship is forced to land on Mars...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is by Hugo Award nominee, Rog Phillips, “A Man Named Mars.”  Could a sinister plan be stopped by a pair of nobodies?  Bryan Berry’s “Mission to Marakee” is our second novel.  Death to all scientists was the motto!  Ray Carver was an ordinary solider, displaced after the nuclear war...

(1913) Crissie Bell, E. Holman Clark, Hubert Willis.  Britain's first full-length sci-fi film.  A Martian having offended his ruler is exiled to Earth with the mission to change the heart of a selfish man.  Based on a highly popular stage play, Message to Mars features futuristically clad Martians, thought transference, instant space travel, mind control...

(1918) Gunnar Tolnaes, Zanny Peterson, Nicolai Neiiendam, Alf Blutecher. A splendid silent classic about man’s first trip to Mars. A sea captain and an aging scientist build a spaceship and set out

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel features two thought-provoking sci-fi thrillers.  The first is Richard Ashby’s “Act of God”  They sought the eradication of death!  Allen Kim Lang is the author of our second novel, “The Chemically Pure Warriors.”  Tiny germs meant big problems...

(1943) Hans Albers, Hermann Speelmans, Käthe Haack, Ferdinand Marian.  Armed with immortality, Munchausen rides horses, hot air balloons and even cannon balls as he travels the world saving beautiful ladies of royalty.  He is aided by his faithful servant who is armed with a fantastic rifle that can hit targets from 100 miles away and a runner who can sprint great distances in seconds... 

(1980, Upgraded 2/25/23) Ian McCulloch, Louise Marlo, Marino Mase, Siegfried Rauch. What a hoot! This Alien rip-off starts with an eerie ship pulling into NY harbor. On board is a cargo of green pulsating eggs. The eggs explode and cause a green acid to get into...

(1989) Daniel Bosch, Marina Giulia Cavalli, Luciano Pigozzi, directed by Antonio Margheritti.  In hopes of getting a scandalous exposé, a lovely ecological activist and her cameraman sneak into a top secret facility where the workmen of a shady corporation are dumping radioactive scrap into the core of a live volcano.  This results in a beam of unchecked energy being shot out into outer space.  What no one expects, though...

(1977, Upgraded 7/11/22) Tim Brinton, Gregory Munroe, Carol Hazell.  In the middle of a world ecological disaster and the start of a new ice-age, the world is told that the space race and the cold war between the U.S. and Russia are fake.  Both countries are secretly planning the assembly of a Mars colony. It also seems the Apollo moon landings were only a cloak shielding what’s really happening on the moon...

(1964) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Fernando Rey, Gloria Paul, George Hilton, Dakar, Rosalba Neri.  Those wacky Italians are at it again, this time against the evil Goldginger, who plans world domination by brainwashing important world leaders and starting a war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.  Photographers Franco and Ciccio stumble into this accidentally and are kidnapped...

(1959, Upgraded 11/5/21) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith, Ivan Triesault, Boyd Morgan. One of our best selling 50's sci-fi B classics. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. He breaks into military installations and banks, stealing radioactive materials and money. The film's climax features a struggle between Griffith and Kennedy in a lab where an atomic explosion is...

(1962, Upgraded 3/10/23) Vladimir Korenev, Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Simonov. Coastal villages live in dread of a mysterious ocean creature known as "the sea devil." It turns out that the creature is a product of man, not...

(1932) Harry Piel, Fritz Odemar, Lissy Arna, Annemarie Sorensen, Olga Limburg.  Harry is a taxi driver who finds an odd contraption on the back seat of his cab that renders him invisible.  He soon uses it to gain wealth and fame.  Watch for the scene at the racetrack where Harry scores a fortune.  His servant, though, has other ideas...

(1962) Peter Halliday, Susan Hampshire, Noel Johnson, John Hollis, Mary Morris. Wow! A beautiful alien-created female is kidnapped by a powerful international corporation that possesses a giant super...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina, Lado Tskhvariashvili.  We’re offering this Russian classic with subtitles that finally make sense.  A spaceship is pulled into orbit around a dark “iron star,” whose gravitational pull is so great that the ship won’t have enough fuel to break free from its grip.  Instead, they land on a nearby planet where they find...

APRIL 1st, 2000 (1952) Hilde Krahl, Josef Meinrad, Judith Holzmeister.  In the year 2000 the world is run by the World Global Union.  Smaller countries are still allowed to have their own puppet governments, but none have total freedom—that is, until Austria’s new President declares his country’s freedom.  But within hours WGU forces are streaking toward Austria...

(1960, aka SPACE MEN) Rick Von Nutter, Gabriella Farinon, David Montresor, Archie Savage.  As far as we know, this is the first time this great space opera film has been available in an anamorphic English language edition.  And it’s just pure science fiction from start to finish...

(1969, aka DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN, Upgraded 12/30/20) Michael Rennie, Karin Dor, Paul Naschy, Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Ferdinando Murolo, Gene Reyes.  Rennie is an alien mad scientist whose race is out to conquer Earth. From a castle in Transylvania he revives legendary monsters to help him carry out...

(1957, Upgraded 12/22/22) Robert Clarke, Kenne Duncan, Marilyn Harvey, Jeanne Tatum, Shirley Kilpatrick, Ewing Brown. A gang of crooks hold a pair of hostages at by in a mountatin cabin when a spaceship lands nearby. The entire group finds themselves threatened by a mysterious...

(1947) Jean-Pierre Aumont, Maria Montez, Dennis O’Keefe, Henry Daniell. Two Legionnaires comb the Sahara for a missing scientist.  They are captured by strange desert warriors and taken to the lost land of Atlantis, ruled over by a beautiful but ruthless queen who is surrounded by the golden mummies of past lovers. Aumont is great as the stalwart Legionnaire who crumbles to the sexual power of Montez...

(1962) Susanne Loret, Alberto Lupo. This was constantly re-released on the drive in circuit during the sixties. A mad scientist uses weird, glandular transplants to restore beauty to the horribly scarred f

(1955, Upgraded 5/3/22) Gene Nelson, Faith Domergue, Peter Arne, Joseph Tomelty, Leonard Williams, Philip Dale. An atomic accident, in combination with bullets fired by would-be assassins, puts the mind of a famous scientist seven and a half seconds into the future. One startling scene has the victim...

(1957) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada. Are you ready for this plotline? The high council of the Emerald planet (boy do these guys look ridiculous) is fearful that radiation from atomic tests on Ea

(1958, UPGRADED) Ken Utsui, Utako Mitsuya, Kan Hayashi. Ludicrous but lovable. It’s Starman against an alien beast in the depths of space. Watch a total disregard for science as characters walk on space platforms without...

(1959, Upgraded 11/28/22) Yvette Vickers, Ken Clarke, Bruno VeSota, Michael Emmet. A top-of-the-line drive-in classic. Radiation has caused ordinary leeches to mutate into giant monsters. They threaten the folks in a small bayou town. Vickers is at her sleaziest, sexiest best as the local storekeepers unfaithful wife. She and her lover are caught by her husband and driven into the swamp where the monsters...

(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...

(1940) Vlasta Burian, Antonin Mikulic, Meda Valentová.  A fine fantasy-comedy (7.1 on IMDB) with a tiny touch of horror.  There are many plot elements: clandestine marriages, secret children, castle ghosts, hush-hush love affairs, etc.—all woven together by great script-writing, resulting in many uproarious moments.  The scene where the town doctor visits the Baron’s castle...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The lead off novel is a space opera gem, Wood Jackson’s “The Bat-men of Mars.  It was time to reach beyond our nearest neighbor in the sky...to Mars!, Our second novel is by veteran sci-fi author, Henry Hasse: “He Who Shrank.”  The professor’s belief that our enormous universe is just a plethora of tiny atoms didn’t...

(1963) Ed Perry, Andy Stewart, Bruce Hunter. Two rival countries race to have the first successful landing on Mars. Some great outer space scenes with really hilarious-looking monsters doing battle against

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS—Special 2-Disc Anamorphic Edition (1961) Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Maya Brent.  This two-disc special edition features a beautiful anamorphic widescreen English language edition on one disc, with the foreign-language anamorphic widescreen edition (with English subtitles) on the other.  The plot is simple but fun: Earth may be destroyed by a runaway planet controlled by a giant computer...

(1965) Ralph Seeley, Dick Welsbacher, Marc Clark, Nelson Strong, Suzanne Farrar.  These are the kind of films we love—low, low budget affairs filled with schlocky acting, inane dialogue, pitiful special effects, yet are unexplainably enjoyable.  A couple of overzealous archaeologists dig up...

(1961) Tor Johnson, Douglas Meller, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Tony Cardoza, Conrad Brooks; written and directed by Coleman Francis.  One of the best "bad" movies of all time, now in its original 1.85 widescreen format for the first time. Tor is a Russian scientist caught in a nuclear blast while running from spies. The radiation transforms him...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel features two engrossing sci-fi thrillers.  The first is Robert Silverberg’s and Randall Garrett’s great tale, “The Beast With Seven Tails.”  There was a roaring surf, a beautiful sun, and a monster from space! Laurence Manning is the author of our second novel, “The Wreck of the Asteroid.”  A crew of space explorers finds themselves stranded on our neighbor in space, Mars... 

(1944) Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, Jean Kent, Antoinette Cellier, Max Bacon, Joy Shelton. This appears to be the only Lost World-Lost Race musical comedy ever made.  We find it amazing that this film has escaped the eye of sci-fi and fantasy film historians for decades, because in spite of its primary musical and comedy themes, there’s no doubt of the film’s fantastic cinema trappings...

(1953 aka BEYOND THE CURTAIN OF SPACE) Richard Crane, Sally Mansfield. This outer space adventure marked the debut of Rocky Jones and his space rangers. Two of Rocky's allies are captured by aliens and brai

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   The lead off novel is William Lemkin’s rousing tale, “Beyond the Stratosphere.”  What goes up does not necessarily come down!  The second novel in this great combo is “Crypt-City of the Deathless One” by heralded science fiction and fantasy writer Henry Kuttner.  Enter the forest of death at your own risk!  Lost in the depth...

(1959) Robert Clarke, Darlene Tompkins, Arianne Arden, directed By Edgar Ulmer.  First time in widescreen DVD video.  A jet pilot from the 20th century breaks through a time barrier in the sky to a plague-ravaged Earth, menaced by mutants.  Lots of sci-fi intrigue with a big revolt at the end of the film...  

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “Biddy and the Silver Man,” a fantastic tale by E. K. Jarvis.  The second novel is “Four-Day Planet” by veteran sci-fi author, H. Beam Piper...

THE BIG MESS (1971) Vinzenz Sterr, Maria Sterr, Sigi Graue, Henrike Fürst.  One of the more unique sci-fi films we’ve ever released.  The setting is deep space in the year 2034.  Space operations are run by greedy corporations. Two not so bright astronauts leave a trail of shady deals, outer space smuggling, and spaceship wrecking...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Jack Williamson and Miles Breuer’s “The Birth of a New Republic” is a grand adventure of interplanetary pioneering.   The moon was an inhospitable place. It had virulently hot days and the nights saw the temperature fall well below zero.  There were also strange, often-dangerous creatures found on the...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels.  The first novel is a “can’t-put-it-down” gem by Erik Fennel, “Black Priestess of Varda.”  The second novel is “Barton’s Island” by sci-fi vet, Harl Vincent.  Could his scientific revolution succeed?  Jerome Carter had everything he could ever want—and more money and power than any one man should be allowed...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a great illustrated edition of that space opera classic, “The Black Star Passes” by one of the early masters of science fiction, John W. Campbell.  It was three against the stars!  A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention… 

(1937) Ralph Byrd, Herbert Rawlinson, Joan Barclay, Lloyd Hughes. A young inventor and a famed Scotland Yard detective fight against a cloaked madman with a claw hand known as "The Scorpion". At stake is...

(1965, Upgraded 11/15/22) Marie Laforet, Francisco Rabal, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Denner, Stéphane Audran, Serge Reggiani. A beautiful woman (Laforet) is traveling by train when a stranger—who is obviously hiding from someone on board—entrusts her with an ornament shaped like a tiger with ruby eyes. What she doesn’t know is that the jewels are fakes and actually contain a virus powerful enough to destroy...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  William Hope Hodgson's "The Boats of the Glen Carrig" is the twenty-first installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  An early classic of adventure and horror!  It is one of the strangest sea-faring horror tales ever told and was admired greatly by horror fiction legend, H. P. Lovecraft.

(1937) Charles Farrell, Margaret Vyner, Danny Green, Fritz Kortner. What a find! A great mix of sci-fi and espionage elements. A reporter is murdered who was about to uncover a plot against an upcoming wo

(1956) Tony Quinn, Sydney Tafler, Patti Morgan, Harry Fowler.  An eccentric scientist creates a new explosive device that uses sound (in this case, the sound of Big Ben striking the hour) as a detonator.  He places an explosive charge, along with a miniature version of his new detonator device, into several ordinary pens.  Unfortunately, one of his pens falls into the hands of drug dealers.  What follows is an intricate tale of crime and intrigue with many twists and turns...  

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) James Best, Barbara Burgess, Gil Peterson, Gerald McRaney.  At a secret government research facility, some weird experiments are happening.  But, unknown to the scientists, there’s a plot afoot...

(1959, Upgraded 11/7/21) Herb (Jason) Evers, Virginia Leith, Anthony La Penna, Adele Lamont, Bruce Brighton. TOTALLY UNCUT! Ludicrous black and white, sleazy schlock at its absolute best. A severed head, a gross looking monster, two battling strippers, a mad scientist, all blended together in...

(1955) Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson. A little bit of editing could do wonders for this 'bad' classic from Ed Wood. In spite of the cardboard sets, inane dialogue, and atrocious acting, there seems to be something...

(1959 Upgraded 12/30/20) John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, Gerard Herter, Gay Pearl, directed by Riccardo Freda. A living, man-devouring radioactive mass is discovered in a subterranean pool near ancient Mayan ruins...

(1968) Sevda Ferdag, Irfan Atasoy, Yildirim Gencer, Suzan Avci.  Oh joy…another Turkish comic book superhero movie!  Featured here is “Spy Smasher,” who looks kind of like “the Phantom” or one of those other old Marvel or DC heroes.  As you would expect in a grade-Z delight like this, there’s a plethora of action:  fist fights, gun battles, chases, etc.  It’s all REALLY schlocky...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel features two great sci-fi adventures.  The first is Emmett McDowell’s “Citadel of the Green Death.”  The second novel is Dwight V. Swain’s “Drummers of Daugavo.” Both are terrific tales...

(1962) Gerald Flood, Peter Williams, Aubery Morris, Stewart Guidotti, Caroline Blakiston. Two scientific journalists board a nuclear submarine.  They soon find themselves immersed in an incredible adventure when the submarine is hijacked and taken to a secret underwater city called Aegiria.  

(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...

(1936, FEATURE VERSION) Jack Mulhall, Rex Lease, Mae Busch, Bill Farnum, Robert Frazer. Mystery surrounds a scientist who has discovered a formula for synthetic gold. Look for some cool...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “The Colossus Conclusion” by the highly underrated science fiction author, S. J. Byrne.  It was a desperate struggle for Earth!  The second novel is “The Mental Assassins” by Hugo-Award-nominated author, Rob Phillips.  He was a dream world hit man...

COUNTERBLAST (1948) Mervyn Johns, Robert Beatty, Nova Pilbeam.  Grim germ warfare sci-fi thriller about an escaped WWII Nazi doctor and his sinister plot to bring the Nazis into world domination.  He murders and then impersonates an Australian doctor so he can work on his devilish plans right in the heart of a small English town.  His objective:  to use a new super-disease against Germany’s enemies...

(1955) Peter Lorre, Barbara Hale, Bill Williams. A top sci-fi rediscovery! Williams and Hale live in an unusual apartment building managed by the strange Lorre. What are the weird machines in his basement?  How does he see behind without turning...

RAY (1924) Charles Martinelli, Louis Pre Fils, Albert Prejean. Dir. by Rene Clair. Classic early sci-fi as a scientist invents a ray that causes Parisians to fall asleep where they stand. A few unaff

(1961, Upgraded 5/15/24) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson, Esther Sandoval.  Now in widescreen from a stunning 35mm print.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real!  The monster is kind of goofy-looking, but still more than able to rip you to shreds—which it does to more than one victim!  

(1958-1975) Bob Clymire, Jan Swihart, Bill Simonsen, Dennis Kottmeier, Ruth Ann Mannella.  This film has a weird history.  Most of it is a movie made in 1958 (some say 1963) that sat unreleased for many years. It was called Teenagers Battle the Thing. In 1975 they shot some new introductory footage and it was released as Curse of Bigfoot.  

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Dark Atlantis” by David Craigie is the 33rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  What deadly secrets awaited them in the ocean’s depths?  Professor Jules Frapillion craved adventure as much as his best friend, American adventurer, Rodney Harding, going so far as to create insane contraptions to go where no man had dared...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   “Dark Invasion” by Frederic Kummer is an intrigue-laced tale of an impending invasion.  The second novel, “Mystery Moon,” is by one of the most beloved science fiction authors of the 20th century, Edmond Hamilton.  What was the dreaded secret of Saturn’s moon?  Saturn’s moon, Rhea, was filled...

Armchair Fiction presents fully illustrated extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. “Daughter of Thor” is an exciting adventure classic by one of sci-fi’s most beloved authors, Edmond Hamilton.  This edition’s second novel is “Talents, Incorporated” by another sci-fi wizard, Murray Leinster.  

Special 35mm Edition (1958) Paul Hubschmid, Madeleine Fischer, Fiorella Mari, Peter Meersman, Ivo Garrani, Dario Michaelis.  Most of the video copies around of this title are pretty awful, so it’s amazing how much better this Euro-science fiction thriller is when you’ve got decent picture quality.  The movie starts off with a rocket preparing to lift off for the moon...

(1979) Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson.  A police inspector comes to a remote mountain hotel to investigate a murder.  Shortly after his arrival a snowslide cut the hotel off from civilization.  The inspector then begins to realize that something far worse than a simple case of murder is afoot—aliens, androids, terrorists, and more...

(1966) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Ann Smyrner, Dan Vadis.  Tony and Brad protect a lady who’s a kidnap target in this thriller that has a bit of everything:  sci-fi, ancient temples, martial arts, big explosions, jungle thrills, etc...

(1964, Upgraded 12/29/20) Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Van Eyck, Yvonne Furneaux, Yoko Tani. The maniacal Dr. Mabuse threatens the world with a death ray. Van Eyck plays a suave espionage agent.  Plays a lot like...

(1972) Mine Mutlu, Kunt Tulgar, Erol Tas, Erol Gunaydin.  This outlandish Turkish sci-fi action film features “the Copperhead,” a masked hero who fights the evil Dr. Satan.  The doctor has designs on conquering the world with robots and other electronics.  He laughs maniacally throughout the film.  There are many scenes that will make you howl and the Sherlock Holmish sidekick is bad beyond belief.  A wonderfully inept film that never lets up...

(1933) Sidney Blackmer, Peggy Shannon, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Samuel S. Hinds. Strange events in Earth’s atmosphere cause super storms and tidal waves. The destruction of NYC is one of the most notable scenes in science fiction film history...

(1933) Sidney Blackmer, Peggy Shannon, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Samuel S. Hinds, Edward Van Sloan.  Almost 90 years later this sci-fi classic still packs a punch.  Strange events in Earth’s atmosphere cause monstrous storms and tidal waves that overrun the Earth.  The destruction of New York City is one of the most memorable...

(1959) Harry Townes, John Agar, Whitney Blake, Cecil Kellaway, Charles Aidman, Edward Platt, Gail Kobe, Frank Gerstle.  Just when you thought you'd seen all the '50s sci-fi ever made, this forgotten b&w gem shows up. During an attempted rocket launch, a meteor smashes into...

(1967) Guy Madison, Luisa Baratto, Diana Lorys.  Madison is a journalist who gets involved in the search for a leading brain surgeon, who has mysteriously disappeared.  The search takes him to the African desert where they discover Devilman.  Devilman’s plans are simple: using a new brain-transplanting procedure, he intends to rule the world...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Devil’s Henchmen” by John Oldrey is the 45^th installment of our “Lost World-Lost Race Classics” series.  A diabolical weapon had fallen into the hands of a madwoman!  Queen Phorenis was the ruthless ruler of Nawar, a lost kingdom in the wilds of the Middle East.  She looked upon men as being the playthings and pawns for her wicked...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel’s first tale is Berkeley Livingston’s “Dimensions Unlimited.” They had an all-expenses paid trip to another dimension!  The second great tale is “The Quest in Time” written by all-time science fiction great, Edmond Hamilton. They were time traveling for ancient treasure...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels.  The first novel is “Disciples of Destiny” by science fiction pulp specialist Don Wilcox.  What was the mystery of the castle of Flinfiord?  The second novel is an exciting tale on a distant planet, Thomas Scortia’s “Genius Loci.”  Whoever heard of a plant blight that affected humans?  Well, they had one on this new off-planet frontier colony of...

(1967-1972) Bobby Van, Grant Williams, Henry Wilcoxen, Denny Miller, Ruta Lee, Mala Powers, James Craig. The year is 1975. A spaceship is launched from the Earth on a mission to Venus. As it streaks through space, its passengers are horrified to learn that...

The first disc of this Special Two-DVD Edition contains The Dream Doctor (1936) Julie Suedo Sidney Monckton.  This odd film tells tales of many different characters’ dream experiences and tries to explain them in a paranormal yet scientific way by a woman with strange powers.  The second disc includes A Trip to the Moon (1902) Georges Méliès, Victor André.  This is a short sci-fi classic from early cinema pioneer Méliès.  We've also thrown in trailers and two other short subjects, including Fall of the House of Usher and The Devil's Ball...

ASSIGNMENT TERROR (1969) Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Karin Dor.  Rennie’s an alien mad scientist whose mission is to revive Earth’s legendary monsters to assist him in an invasion.  PLUS:  MISSION STARDUST (1968) Lang Jeffries, John Karlsen, Essy Persson. A space hero, backed by a team of astronauts, heads to the moon to rescue a blonde alien babe who seeks the aid of a blood scientist to help save her dying race...

CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1959) John Merivale, Didi Sullivan, directed by Riccardo Freda. A large, living radioactive mass is found in a subterranean pool near Mayan ruins.  Plus: THE MANSTER (1959) Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton. The chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum who slowly transforms into a horrible, two-headed monster

RETURN OF DR. MABUSE (1961) Lex Barker, Gerte Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss. Sequel to The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Frobe and Barker play detectives on the trail of Dr. Mabuse. A number of mysterious murders

WAR OF THE INSECTS (1966, aka GENOCIDE) Yusuke Kawazu, Emi Shindo, Kathy Moran. It’s man against bugs in this cool sci-fi shocker. A plane carrying an atomic bomb is attacked by a new strain of killer

I EAT YOUR SKIN (1964) William Joyce, Heather Hewitt, Dan Stapleton, Walter Coy. Pure, lovable, low-budget schlock. A playboy writer and his publisher fly to a mysterious Caribbean island where they

THE BLUE PANTHER (1965) Marie Laforet, Francisco Rabal, Akim Tamiroff, Charles Denner. A lady is traveling by train when a stranger entrusts her with an ornament shaped like a tiger with ruby eyes

S.O.S. PACIFIC (1959) Eddie Constantine, Richard Attenborough, Eva Bartok, Pier Angeli. Eddie’s BEST film. Eddie’s a tough sailor being flown to the mainland for trial. Also aboard is the snake who

THE NEXT VICTIM (1971) Considered a landmark giallo film. An ambassador's sleazy wife discovers that either her husband, her ex-lover, or her current lover might actually be a sadistic slasher who has

THE NUDE VAMPIRE (1969) Olivier Martin, Maurice Lemaitre, Caroline Cartier.  A beautiful vampire woman gets involved with a playboy whose father is experimenting with artificial youth.  PLUS:  DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN (1969) Michael Rennie, Paul Naschy, Karin Dor.  Rennie is an alien scientist whose race is set to invade Earth.  His mission is to revive Earth’s legendary monsters to assist him in the invasion.  His grisly lineup is amazing:  Frankenstein, Dracula, the Werewolf, and the Mummy. 

INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY (1957) Junko Kanoi. Ryuji Shinagawa, Shozo Southern, Ghastly murders are being committed.  The one similarity is that an odd buzzing sound is heard before each murder.  The killer is actually a man who shrinks to the size of a fly.  PLUS:  SPACEMEN OVER TOKYO (1956) Toyomi Karita, Keizo Kawasaki, Bin Yagisawa, Shozo Nanbu.  A spaceship full of starfish aliens visits Earth to warn of impending global destruction.  Aka Warning from Space.  

THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE (1967) Grant Williams, Henry Wilcoxon, Bobby Van, Mala Powers. A spaceship hurtles toward Venus.  Its crew is soon horrified as they see the Earth destroyed by a nuclear holocaust on their telescreen.  PLUS:  THE DESTRUCTORS (1967) Richad Egan, Patricia Owens, John Ericson, Michael Ansara.  Interesting sci-fi and espionage.  Spies are after "laser rubies," which can power killer laser beams.  

THE MANSTER (1959) Peter Dyneley, Tetsu Nakamura, Jane Hylton, Terri Zimmern. This was first released on DI Combo #2 many years ago along with Horror Chamber of Dr. Faustus.  Sadly, we lost Dr. Faustus to the GATT copyright restoration.  But we always felt The Manster should have another DI partner, so here it is, the chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum by a mad scientist.  PLUS:  THE SCREAMING SKULL (1958) John Hudson, Peggy Webber.  It's another great AIP horror film about a woman who is terrorized by the vision of her husband's first wife's skull.  

THE STRANGER (1973) Glenn Corbett, Cameron Mitchell, Lew Ayres, Sharon Acker, Dean Jagger.  After a mishap in space Corbett finds himself in a strange hospital where no one can give him any answers.  PLUS  CROWHAVEN FARM (1970) Hope Lange, Paul Burke, John Carradine, Lloyd Bochner. Lange and hubby inherit a strange old farm.  She soon sees visions of ancient settlers doing weird things with rocks and wooden doors...

RIP VAN WYK (1960) Jamie Uys, Wynona Cheyney.  This movie is actually a time travel movie. Set in 1859, Uys meets a mysterious man who feeds him a potion causing him to fall asleep and hurtle 100 years through time.  He awakens, un-aged, in 1959—a strange, unfamiliar, modern world.  PLUS:  THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED (1958) Paul Hubschmid, Ivo Garrani. A rocket lifts off for the moon. The rocket (containing lots of atomic matter) smashes into an asteroid, which in turn shatters into an avalanche of deadly rocks and space debris...

ISLAND OF TERROR (1966, Full Widescreen) Edward Judd, Peter Cushing, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne.  Things go terribly wrong in a research lab on an isolated British island and a new breed of bone-devouring monsters is created.  PLUS:  THE PROJECTED MAN (1966, Full Widescreen) Bryant Halliday, Mary Peach, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr. A reckless scientist decides to use himself as a guinea pig in his experiments...

NEUTRON AND THE BLACK MASK (1962) Wolf Rubinski, Julio Aleman, Armando Silvestre, Rosa Arenas.  Our black-masked atomic super hero takes on a gang of thugs who are conspiring to steal a formula for a neutron explosive.  PLUS:  NEUTRON VS. THE AMAZING DR. CARONTE (1962) Wolf Rubinski, Julio Aleman, Rosita Arenas.  Our favorite south-of-the-border super hero, Neutron, locks horns again with the insane Dr. Caronte...

THE AMAZING WORLD OF GHOSTS (1978) Narr. by Sid Paul. This schlockumentary explores haunted houses, ghosts, UFOs, etc.  PLUS:  UFO TARGET EARTH (1974) Nick Pakias, Cynthia Cline, LaVerne Light, Phil Erickson.  This ‘70s oddity is about an electronics pro who spends his time searching for evidence of space aliens...

STAR ODYSSEY (1977) Yanti Somer, Gianni Garko, Malisa Longo, Chris Avran.  An alien mastermind has picked Earth for annihilation.  Earth sends a fleet of starships to fight against the super robots from this far-off galaxy.  Lots of pitched space battles with plenty of action.  PLUS:  PLANET OF DINOSAURS (1977) Harvey Shain, Mary Aplleseth, Max Thayer, Derna Wylde. A lost spaceship lands on a mysterious planet filled with rampaging prehistoric monsters.  The crew members have to stave off these giant lizards until they are rescued...

HOT MONEY GIRL (1959) Eddie Constantine, Christopher Lee, Dawn Addams.  Constantine and Addams hatch a plot to recover a parcel of priceless jewels from behind the iron curtain.  Their quest takes them to an old convent that’s now a German police barracks. Lots of tense moments as they break through security lines. PLUS:  THE UNSTOPPABLE MAN (1960) Cameron Mitchell, Marious Goring, Harry Corbett.  Mitchell is a tycoon whose son is kidnapped.  There’s a huge ransom demand and the cops tell Mitchell to let them handle it.  Mitchell, though, takes matters into his own hands.  There’s a bit of sci-fi as Mitchell defends himself with a futuristic, hand-held flame projector...

ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN (1979, WIDESCREEN) Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Barbara Bach. A prisoner ship sinks in the Caribbean.  The ship’s doctor and a number of prisoners make shore on a jungle island where a madman—with the aid of a mad scientist—changes natives into fish-like monsters. VAMPIRE HOOKERS (1979, WIDESCREEN) John Carradine, Bruce Fairbaim, Trey Wilson, Karen Stride.  Carradine plays an old-age vampire who has a bevy of vampire beauties at his beck and call...

STAR FORCE (1979) narrated by Sidney Paul.  If you’re a UFO docu-film fan, this is as rare as it gets.  Star Force (not on IMDB) takes you on an extrraordinary excursion through a myriad of strange illustrations, incredible film clips, and eye-popping photos, . THE HUMANOID (1979) Richard Kiel, Barbara Bach, Arthur Kennedy, Massimo Serrato. The ruthless Graal (ala Darth Vader) plots Earth’s conquest.  He enlists a mad scientist who can change humans into...

JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT (1961 aka THE LOST KINGDOM, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Haya Harareet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Georges Riviere, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.  Lost aviators find the entrance to Atlantis at a nuclear blast site in the desert.  PLUS:  TERROR OF THE MAD DOCTOR (1962, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Gert Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss, Senta Berger.  A nice remake of Fritz Lang's 1933 classic. 

BATTLE OF THE WORLDS (1961, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN, English Subs) Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Maya Brent.  This is a really cool outer space movie with lots of battle scenes and alien spaceships battling against the desperate forces of Earth.  PLUS: CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne. In widescreen from a great 35mm print.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real!  

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1970) Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Howard Vernon, directed by Jesus Franco.  A mineral is discovered that can turn metal to gold and humans into zombies. PLUS:  BLOOD MANIA (1970) Vicki Peters, Peter Carpenter, Maria De Aragon. The plot is pretty simple, a maniacal nympho-maniac wants to speed along her daddy’s demise. Why? So she can use the inheritance money to...

THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE (1960, Anamorphic) Peter Van Eyck, Gert Frobe, Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss, Werner Peters. Fritz Lang’s swan song with the fiendish Dr. Mabuse committing a series of murders in a posh hotel, which is filled with all kinds of strange scientific gadgets. THEY STOLE THE BOMB (1961) Eugenia Balaure, Haralambie Boros, Emil Botta, Horia Caciulescu, Florin Piersic.  This is perhaps the most offbeat sci-fi film ever made. It starts with a man accidentally walking into an atomic test area.  He is nabbed by a squad of men dressed like spacemen...

THE AMAZING MR. X (1948) Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Richard Carlson, Cathy O'Donnell. A very underrated film.  Bari plays a woman is haunted by the spectre of her dead husband.  She follows what she thinks is his spirit onto a lonely beach on a moonlit night and runs into a handsome spiritualist. ATLANTIS, THE LOST CONTINENT (1947) Maria Montez, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Dennis O’Keefe, Henry Daniell. Two soldiers are captured by strange warriors and taken to the lost land of Atlantis.  It is ruled over by a beautiful but ruthless queen who surrounds herself with the mummies of past lovers... 

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... 

M (1951) David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Raymond Burr, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie.  A well-done remake of the ’31 Lorre classic.  A mad killer is murdering small kids (this time in L.A.). The cops are combing the underworld, looking for the maniac. MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE (1951) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Lucan, Maria Mercedes, Dora Bryan. Although this was officially a “Mother Riley” film, the real star here is Bela, who brings to his part an intensity not seen since his early ‘30s films. Worth it for him alone. Bela plots to dominate the world with an army of robots.

THE DEVILMAN STORY (1967, Anamorphic) Guy Madison, Luisa Baratto, Diana Lorys, Bill Vanders.  Madison is a journalist searching for a kidnapped brain surgeon. His search takes him to a secret lab run by the silver-masked villain, Devilman, who intends to rule the world. FLASHMAN (1967, Anamorphic) Paul Stevens, Claudie Lange, John Heston, Anne Williams. Flashman is so campy it nearly defies description.  Flashman is actually a spoiled British Royal who wears one of the cheapest looking “superhero” getups ever created...  

FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Kurt Rackelman.   A space expedition is launched to the planet Venus.  There they find the planet and its former inhabitants completely destroyed by atomic war... THE AMPHIBIAN MAN (1962) Vladimir Korenev, Mikhail Kozakov, Anastasia Vertinskaya, Nikolai Simonov. Shoreline villages live in fear of a mysterious ocean creature known as "the sea devil," who terrorizes the coast.  It turns out that the creature is not only the product of man (and not of nature), but the result of...

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

LIANE, JUNGLE GODDESS (1956) Marion Michael, Hardy Kruger.  A topless, beautiful white jungle girl is discovered in the wilds of Africa living with a native tribe.  PLUS:  UNNATURAL (1952) Eric Von Stroheim, Hildegarde Neff, Karl Boehm.  The weird story of an evil scientist who creates a beautiful femme fatale via artificial insemination...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  S. P. Meek's "The Drums of Tapajos, Illustrated Edition" is the fifteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Beware the bizarre jungle drums that signaled Death...

(1962, Upgraded 8/23/21)  Arch Hall, Jr., Richard Kiel, Marilyn Manning, Arch Hall, Sr.  Hilarious schlock about a couple of teenagers who tangle with an actual caveman living in the desert.  Junior saves the day when Manning is kidnapped by the beast.  He rescues her and after they escape from caveman's desert cave...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Enchanted Stone” by Charles Lewis Hind is the 37th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  With a slight twist on the usual Lost World/Lost Race themes, this late Victorian adventure-romance is jam-packed with fantasy.  Within these pages, you will find a strange and weird tale told through the apprehensive journalist...

(1977) Christopher Lee, Sue Lyon, Dean Jagger, Kirk Scott, Lew Ayres. After witnessing an accidental death, a priest goes on a spiritual retreat where he encounters his alien look-a-like! This alien has plans...

(1931) Abel Gance, Victor Francen, Colette Darfeuil, Sylvie Gance. We now offer the original 90-minute French language version of this classic sci-fi film, complete with English subtitles. You’ll also get...

(1916) This is a truly remarkable early silent science fiction classic. A massive comet approaches Earth. It narrowly misses our planet, but causes enormous upheaval, including massive rioting and a

(1959) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Reiko Seto, Terumi Hoshi. What’s not to like?  It’s another hilarious Starman movie. This epic has our hero battling against the sinister brain of Balazar and his crazed minions of Marpetians... 

(1932) Hans Alber, Sybille Schmitz, Peter Lorre, Paul Hartman.  Great sci-fi about a giant floating platform built in the mid-Atlantic as a refueling stopover for trans-Atlantic flights.  Unfortunately there are plans afoot to stop this daring project.  Albers is the great flier in the center of it all, who falls for the beautiful daughter of the man who built the platform.  Sabotage and intrigue soon... 

(1932) Conrad Veldt, Jill Esmond, Leslie Fenton. Right out of Amazing Stories. A gigantic floating platform is built in the mid-Atlantic for use as a oceanic airport. However, its destruction seems imminent...

(1958) Lubor Tokos, Hugh Downs, Arnost Navrátil, Miroslav Holub, Frantisek Slégr.  This is easily the best quality DVD edition of this fabulous science fiction film on the market.  The evil Count Artigas kidnaps the scientist Professor Roch and his assistant.  Artigas takes them to his headquarters inside an enormous volcano, far off at sea.  The machines the professor creates are incredible.  His heavy water experiments soon provide...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  A.Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss and Other Fantastic Tales" is the seventeenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  After weeks of toiling through treacherous country, Nicholas Graydon and his partners found themselves lost in the Peruvian wilderness on a hunt for lost Incan treasure...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “Faster Than Light” written by a great author from the golden age of science fiction, Harl Vincent. This exciting space opera tale is the sequel to Vincent’s “Venus Liberated.” After high adventures on Venus, Ralph and Margaret Prescott had settled into a mundane life on Earth. This double novel combo’s second tale is Amazing Stories editor Raymond A. Palmer’s “The Test Tube Girl.” As World War II came to a close, humanity had yet to realize that its demise was already set in stone....

FILIBUS (1915) Cristina Ruspoli, Mario Mariani, Giovanni Spano, Filippo Vallino.  Great early silent super-criminal film with sci-fi elements.  Ruspoli is the sinister sky pirate, Filibus, who pulls off amazing robberies with her super-science airship. When she’s pursued by top-of-the-line detective Mariani, she initiates a  series of...

THE FINAL WAR—Widescreen Edition (1960) Tatsuo Umemiya, Yoshiko Mita, Yayoi Furusato.  This is a sci-fi nuclear destruction film that fans have been clamoring to see for years.  And though no English subtitles currently exist, the storyline here isn’t all that hard to follow, even if it is in Japanese only. The scenes of nuclear destruction are pretty well done for the time...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a great paperback edition of that space opera class, “The Fire People” by one of the masters of early science fiction, Ray Cummings.  It was a fiery invasion from another planet!  No one could have suspected that Earth was in mortal danger...

(1962, Upgraded 12/30/20) Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Kurt Rackelman.   A space expedition is launched to the planet Venus.  There they find the planet and its former inhabitants completely destroyed by atomic war.  The crew faces many horrible dangers including a blob-like monster...  

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and fantasy double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is an unusual tale of time travel, “First Through Time” by Rex Gordon.  The second novel is a great Milton Lesser tale, “Through a Glass Darkly.”  Was he a man—or a robot?  Gilbert wasn’t completely sure what he was.  All he knew was...

(1940) Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton.  It's Flash against Ming again as the Purple Death threatens the Earth...

(1967) Paul Stevens, Claudie Lange, John Heston. Every so often we come across a movie that is so bad it nearly defies description.  Flashman is one of those movies.  Flashman is actually a spoiled British Royal who doesn’t have any superpowers or gadgetry whatsoever—so what’s the point of the costume?  There are lots of villains running around, including a mafiosa type guy who kills a scientist for his invisibility formula, then robs banks while he’s invisible... 

(1955) Orhan Erçin, Zafer Önen, Türkan Samil, Özcan Tekgül, Mirella Monro.  This really isn’t much of a movie, yet somehow it kind of works (5.5 on IMDB).  There’s a flying saucer, a dorky robot, an elixir of life, and a plethora of cheesy alien dames who have come to Earth looking for…you guessed it…men!  And who do they find?  

UPGRADED 4/27/22 (1976, aka LE ORME aka PRIMAL IMPULSE) Florinda Balkon, Klaus Kinski, John Karlsen, Peter McEnery, Nicoletta Elmi. An astronaut is purposely left on the moon as part of a bizarre experiment. Meanwhile a woman on Earth wakes to find that she has no memory of...

(1953) Richard Crane, Vic Perrin, Scotty Beckett, Dian Fauntelle, Richard Meredith, Sally Mansfield. Outer space thrills with Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Rocky is dispatched to investigate an

(1981) Robert Clarke, John Carradine, Cameron Mitchell, Katherine Victor, Steve Brodie, directed by Jerry Warren.  This is perhaps the most non-sensical movie you will ever see.  Clarke and his pals’ hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island that just happens to be run by a descendent (kind of) of Dr. Frankenstein, who (of course!) is carrying on mad experiments...

(1958, Upgraded 11/6/21) John Ashley, Donald Murphy, Sally Todd, Harold Lloyd Jr, Sandra Knight. Murphy plays a crazed (and extremely arrogant) descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein. He creates a new, hideous female monster using the dead parts of a beautiful girl (and others). Threatened is a group of typical 50's teenagers...

(1964) Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Joachim Hansen, Walter Rilla. Stevens is a determined scientist experimenting with the suspended animation of chimps.  Next on the docket…humans!  He makes the decision to use himself as a guinea pig. Before going into deep freeze, though, his wife dies suddenly and he comes under suspicion of her possible murder.  Will he wake from his frozen state only to be...

(1969, Upgraded 11/15/23) George Sanders, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, Maria Rohm, directed by Jess Franco. A beautiful woman from the secret city of "Femina" leads a well trained (and very attractive) female army in a plot to take over the world. They use the...

(1970) Tsutomu Takakuwa, Kelly Varis, Kathy Murphy. Really corny. Gamera fights Jiger, a monster who menaces a world expo. Gamera is infected with one of Jiger's eggs, which hatches and produces a tiny monster that...

(1967, upgraded 4/1/24) Tamio Kawachi, Yuji Okada, Yôko Yamamoto.  An expedition journeys to a remote island in the South Pacific.  There they find natives who worship a mysterious god named Gappa. After an earthquake opens an under-earth cavern, a monstrous egg is discovered, which gives birth to a giant baby reptile...  

(1958, Upgraded 8/25/21) Edward Kemmer, Morris Ankrum, Bob Steele, Sally Fraser, Buddy Baer. A fairly well done and definitely very unusual sci-fi thriller about a group of research scientists who are threatened by a murderous...

(1959, Upgraded 12/30/20) Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher.   A gigantic lizard terrorizes a small Texas community, smashing cars and trains and scarfing up gobs of people.  The train crash scene is memorable, as is the dance hall scene.  Lots of cool hot rods, including one that smashes into...

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(1934) Hans Albers, Brigitte Helm, Michael Bohnen, Ernst Kachow, Friedrich Kaybler.  This is a great early sci-fi thriller.  Albers (The Man Who was Sherlock Holmes) is terrific as the lone survivor of lab experiment for creating gold that was sabotaged by Bohnen, a power-mad industrialist.  Much later Bohnen persuades Albers to help him with his own gold experiments in a massive laboratory deep beneath the ocean—a laboratory filled with gigantic equipment and generators...

(1966, Upgraded 12/10/20) Sonny Chiba, Emily Takami, Osamu Kobayashi, Andrew Hughes.  One of the most over-the-top schlock-infested Japanese sci-fi movies ever made. The world appears doomed when Nazo, an insane alien causes the planet Icarus to leave its orbit and rush headlong toward Earth.  Chiba and his scientists plan to destroy the onrushing globe with their “super destruction beam cannon,” which can literally blow a planet out of the sky...

(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...

(1957) Arturo Cordova, Ana Luisa Peluffo, Raul Meraz, Augusto Benedico. A businessman discovers the body of a freshly murdered man in his office building late at night. He is blamed and convicted of

(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.

(1961) Kirk Morris, Frank Gordon, Bice Valori, Liana Orfei.  A couple of boxing promoters use a time machine to travel back to ancient times.  They end up needing Hercules to save them from Genghis Khan and his Hordes...

(1958, Anamorphic, Upgraded 12/29/23) Robert Clarke, Patricia Manning, Nan Peterson, Patrick Whyte, Fred La Porta, Peter Similuk.  Clarke produced, directed, and starred in this film about a scientist who's exposed to a dangerous radioactive isotope that changes him into a lizard-like monster whenever he's touched by the sun's rays... 

(1929) Jameson Thomas, Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Humberston Wright.  This two-disc edition features 35mm transfers of both the sound edition and the silent edition (with music score) of this forgotten sci-fi classic.  An incident at the border of two futuristic countries leads the world to the brink of World War... 

Armchair Fiction presents the best in classic horror stories.  "Horror Gems, Volume Eighteen" features Paul Ernst and others.  There are all kinds of ghoulish goodies in this, the best Horror Gems collection in many a moon.  There are ten terrific tales, certain to provide thrills, chills, and even an occasional smile...

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 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

(1959 aka IT’S HOT IN PARADISE, Upgraded 11/10/21) Alex D'Arcy, Barbara Valentine, Helga Franck, Rainer Brandt, Helga Neuner, Dorothee Parker, Gerry Sammer. Hilariouis schlock about a plane load of models that crash lands on a jungle island. Their manager (D'Arcy) is bitten by a giant spider and turned into a hairy monster, who then proceeds to stalk...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vsevolod Safonov, Mikhail Astangov, Natalya Klimova, Mikhail Kuznetsov. This is an amazing mad scientist film laced with espionage and intrigue.  Garin is a mad inventor who has created (with stolen plans) an apparatus called the Hyperboloid.  It is a death ray of unparalleled destructive power...

(1963, Upgraded 12/29/20) Zdenek Stepanek, Dana Medricka, Radovan Lukavsky. This special edition two-disc set contains the anamorphic widescreen foreign language version with English subtitles, and the flat screen American release version dubbed in English.  A spaceship full of explorers shoots across the galaxy toward a distant star. One of the film’s highlights is when they encounter...

(1957, Upgraded 11/15/21) John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phyllis Coates, Sheila Noonan, Allen Windsor, George Skaff. By no means a classic, but this is probably director Jerry Warren's best film. The survivors of a wrecked diving bell face perils in a strange, underground world that's guarded by a murderous...

(1956) Lon Chaney, Casey Adams, Marian Carr, Robert Shayne.  A 1950s sci-fi standard that we all grew up with. Lon plays an executed killer brought back to life by research scientists, headed by Robert Shayne.  When he realizes he has been brought back from the dead and that his doctors are, essentially, his new captors, he shows his gratitude by killing them!  He then goes on a rampage seeking revenge against those who helped send him to the chair...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Richard Tooker's "Inland Deep, Illustrated Edition" is the eighteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Clues from the forgotten past led them to an unknown world of terror.  A footprint had been found; a footprint only part human...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels.  The first novel “Into the Green Prism” by A. Hyatt Verrill.  The second novel is “Wanderers of the Wolf Moon” by Nelson S. Bond.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles.

(1952, Upgraded 11/17/23) Peggie Castle, Gerald Mohr, Dan O'Herlihy, Noel Neill. The U.S. is being invaded! Unknown enemy troops pour over the borders. Bombs are dropping on major cities and installations, including an H-bomb on...

(1962 aka THE INVISIBLE HORROR) Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Wolfgang Preiss. This could very well be the best of the German Mabuse films of the '60's. Our maniacal doctor is plotting against humanity once again,

(1957, Upgraded, 4/29/24) Ryuji Shinagawa, Shozo Southern, Junko Kano, Tsurumi Joji. What a cool movie! A series of ghastly murders is being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound...

(1983) Pip Donaghy, David Gwillim, Lila Kaye, Ron Pember, Merelina Kendall.  This six-part, two-disc mini-series is a vivid retelling of the classic H. G. Wells story and probably comes the closest to the Wells original than any other screen version.  Donaghy is superb as Griffin, the man destined to go mad because of his own fantastic discovery...

(1949) Chizuru Kitagawa, Takiko Muzunoei, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Tsuyoshi Sugiyama.  A scientist uses a strange formula to become invisible.  The formula has an adverse effect on his mind.  Thrown into the mix are jewel thieves who want the formula to help them steal a priceless diamond.  The invisibility special effects are excellent...

 (1970) Enver Özer, Feri Cansel, Süleyman Turan, Orçun Alkan, Altan Günbay.  A wonderfully awful, grade-Z Turkish superhero film, whose badness is so enticing you’ll find yourself watching it all the way through in one sitting—and you’ll be amazed at yourself for doing it...

(1966, Upgraded 12/30/20) Peter Cushing, Edward Judd, Carole Gray, Eddie Byrne, directed by Terrence Fisher. Things go terribly wrong in an isolated island research lab and a new breed of bone-devouring monsters are created. The island is cut off from the mainland, and it's only a matter of time before the creatures...

(1967) Cameron Mitchell, Elisa Montes, George Martin, Kay Fischer. Mitchell is the evil Baron von Weser, who has a grim collection of carnivorous plants. When a group of people vacation on his island...

(1979) Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Barbara Bach, Joseph Cotten. This is a seriously cool sci-fi horror film. A prison ship goes down in the Caribbean. The survivors make shore on a nearby where a madman and a deranged scientist have been changing natives into fish-like monsters...

(1961 aka L'ATLANTIDE aka THE LOST KINGDOM) Haya Harareet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Georges Riviere, James Westmoreland (as Rad Fulton).  This was the next to last film by cult director, Edgar G. Ulmer.  This sci-fi fantasy concerns lost aviators who find the entrance to Atlantis at a nuclear blast site in the desert.  They face many perils and find themselves pitted against an evil Queen, played with a pronounced sexual aura...

(1959) Rushdi Abazah, Edmond Tuima. What you’ve got here is all you’d expect in a B&W ‘50s sci-fi film, similar to Missile to the Moon.  You’ve got a scientist who’s built a moon rocket.  He shoots off toward the moon with two stowaways.  There's a big spaceship and a cool robot.  They land on the moon and find a strange race of beautiful women.  After many horrifying and dangerous situations, they launch back toward Earth...

(1945) Aleksandr Shirshov, Georgiy Millyar, Sergey Stolyarov, Galina Grigoreva.  An epic Russian fantasy with stunning B&W cinematography, full of adventure and derring do. The sets and special effects are beyond spectacular—truly one of the most visually impressive films you will ever see.  A pretty lass and a mighty warrior plan to marry.  Their plans go awry, though, when she’s kidnapped by...

KILINK IN ISTANBUL (1967) Irfan Atasoy, Pervin Par, Suzan Avci, Muzaffer Tema.  Kilink is this sinister villain in a weird skeleton suit.  He’s brought back from the dead at the beginning of the movie so he can search for a secret formula that will allow him to basically destroy the world and rule over the tatters that are left behind...  

(1959, Upgraded 12/30/20) James Best, Ingrid Goude, Gordon McLendon, Ken Curtis, Baruch Lumet. "And the shrew devours everything. Flesh, bones, marrow...everything." This movie is what low budget, 50's sci-fi was supposed to be all about. Research scientists develop a breed of giant, carnivorous shrews that terrorize a group of people on a small, remote island off the coast of Texas. Things get really hairy when the monsters...

(1954) Peter Graves, James Seay, Barbara Bestar, Steve Pendleton, John Frederick. We all saw this a million times on TV when we were kids. Graves is a scientist captured by invaders from outer space who are dug in inside a massive cavern with a complex set of caves. The ping pong ball eyed-aliens have hatched a horrible plan against Earth. Graves tries to escape but...

(1954) Peter Graves, James Seay, Barbara Bestar, Steve Pendleton, John Frederick. We all saw this a million times on TV when we were kids. Graves is a scientist captured by invaders from outer space who are dug in inside a massive cavern with a complex set of caves. The ping pong ball eyed-aliens have hatched a horrible plan against Earth. Graves tries to escape but...

(1968, aka KONG ISLAND) Brad Harris, Marc Lawrence, Esmeralda Barros, Adriana Alben, Mark Farran.  A group of mad scientists journeys to Kong Island where they implant receptors into the brains of the local gorilla citizenry.  They plan to control the world with an army of Kongs!  

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Frank Aubrey's "The King of the Dead" is the twentieth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  A lost city where the dead come alive!  In this lost citadel lived a forgotten race whose people practiced weird sciences and dabbled in a strange form of magic...

(1969) Janine Reynaud, Adrian Hoven, Rosanna Yani, directed by Jesus Franco.  One of Franco's more off-beat efforts.  On a lonely Caribbean island a mad scientist conducts experiments aimed at creating a new race of super humans...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is fantastic science-fantasy by all-time great author Edmond Hamilton, “The Lake of Life.”  A shining lake held the key to immortality!  The second novel is sci-fi veteran Robert Moore Williams’ “Martian Adventure.”  There was no escape from Serenity...

(1966) Ronald Lewis, Sebastian Breaks, Charles Tingwell, Kate Story.  In the future, man has created a way of travel that literally tunnels through the very molecules of the solid earth itself.  This is all accomplished in “TAU-mode” shuttles.  But when a shuttle becomes encased deep within the Earth’s crust, the only way to rescue its passengers is by using a fantastic...

(1924, Fox) Earle Foxe, Grace Cunard, Gladys Tennyson, Maurice Murphy.  A lost sci-fi classic finally makes it to DVD!  In the future year of 1940, a young man, having been rejected by a girl and gone off to be a hermit in a redwood forest, doesn’t realize that men around the world are dying from a new disease called "Masculitis." By 1950, the dreadful plague has killed every male over the age of fourteen except our hermit hero... 

(1964, Upgraded 12/28/20) Vincent Price, Franca Bettola, Emma Daniell. Top notch science fiction. A plague has killed off most of the earth's population and Price is the sole survivor. The other inhabitants are mutant vampires that...

(1967) Vladimír Hlavatý, Jitka Horejsi, Ondrej Jariabek Vanda Kalinová.  A group of young women struggle to survive on a post-apocalyptic Earth where no men seemed to have survived.  Their leader is an aged woman born before the war...

(1965) Anthony Bate, Keith Buckley, Michele Dotrice, David Collings, Tom Criddle.  This remarkable, futuristic made-for-TV sci-fi film takes place in a massive nuclear bunker, built to protect government brass from nuclear war. The bunker has many levels, but Level Seven is the deepest and provides the best protection...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Light in the Sky” by Herbert Clock and Eric Boetzel is the 41st installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Invaded by the Spanish, Tizoc and his people were forced to flee.  With his people’s numbers so few, there was no hope of fighting back.  Their home, as they once knew it, was destroyed...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Our lead off novel is one of grand adventure by one of the early 20th Century’s most heralded authors, Otis Adelbert Kline’s “Lord of the Lamia.”  An ancient and sinister magic lurked in Cairo!  The second novel is one of great conflict and outer space drama, Clinton Constantinescu’s “The War of the Universe.”  There soon came a...

(1966) Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Gothard, Nike Arrighi, Jonathan Hansen.  The setting is in the distant future.  All the physical needs of mankind are provided for by an all-present “Machine,” which controls men’s lives through a vast series of tunnels inside the Earth.  Man’s every need is provided...

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...

(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...

(1971) Tom Chadbon, Rob Walker, Robert Oates, Marianne Benet, David Whitman.   A squad of futuristic soldiers wakes up, somehow knowing they need to break into an enemy base.  Their mission is so secret that they have been hypnotically programmed with their instructions and will only recall each step of their undertaking when they hear a pre-arranged cue. Although their plans seem infallible, gradually paranoia begins to...

(1936, aka THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND) Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop, Lyn Harding. Karloff does in this role, what Lugosi did in his role as Dr. Vollin in THE RAVEN. He lets it all hang out as he plays the mad Dr. Laurience, who invents a fantastic device that...

(1969, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Price, Preben Neergaard, Lotte Tarp, Lars Lunøe.  In what is truly the most remarkable science fiction film we’ve released in years, Price plays a seemingly insane millionaire placed in an asylum after dangling a wiggling mouse in front of passersby and screaming crazed questions about the rodent’s physical reality.  In his cell, though, odd items begin to appear...

(1959 aka THE SPLIT, Upgraded 11/25/22) Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Norman Van Hawley. The well-done, chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum by a mad scientist. He finds himself slowly transforming into a horrible, two-headed monster.  The moment where he first sees an human eye coming out of his shoulder is unforgettable.  Nakamura gives...

(1938) Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton.. Ming goes to Mars! That's right, and Flash Gordon is there to stop his maniacal plans. Feature version of "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars." Great fun.

(1934) Walter Janssen, Sybille Schmitz, Walter Franck, Siegfried Schürenberg. A millionaire has plans for an army of robots to do the perilous jobs of human workers. In his lab he has a scientist ta

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 17” features the works of one of the best science fiction authors of all time, the wonderful Edmond Hamilton.  He was the absolute master of interstellar thrills and many other sub-genres of science fiction.  Hamilton has long been popular with Armchair Fiction readers...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 18” spotlights one of pulpdom’s favorite science fiction authors, Don Wilcox.  He was sometimes known as Raymond A. Palmer’s right hand man.  We can’t help but think that Don Wilcox was a huge fan of old horror films and science fiction movie serials.  His stories just reek of it.  They’re filled with...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 16” features the works of one of the most underrated sci-fi- authors of the 1950s, Rog Phillips.  Born in 1909, Phillips (Roger Phillip Graham) would begin his career later in life, publishing his first story “Let Freedom Ring!” in 1945. But once started he became impossible to stop.  He was..

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 19” features the sensational stories of an unjustly neglected and highly underrated science fiction author, David Wright O’Brien.  O’Brien (1918-1944) had a deep love of writing, so much so that he continued his passion even after enlisting in the Air Force during World War II.  Sadly, he died in a bombing raid over Berlin at the age of twenty-six.  This volume contains many of his best stories...

Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg was a regular contributor to Ace’s Double Novel series.  Starting in 1957 through the mid-1960s, Bob saw a dozen of his novels (plus a short story collection) published in the Ace Double format.  In this, the first of two Armchair Fiction “Masters of Science Fiction” volumes covering these works, you get three of Bob’s best early Ace novels...

The contents are as follows:

THE CHALICE OF DEATH 

STARHAVEN

SHADOW ON THE STARS 

THE IMPOSSIBLE INTELLIGENCE

OVERLORD OF COLONY EIGHT

When Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories in 1926, he included the works of the great H. G. Wells.  Gernsback reprinted many of Wells’ best science fiction short stories.  So in this collection, in the exact chronological order in which they appeared, is the complete run of the Amazing Stories-H. G. Wells science fiction short story legacy, all with their wonderful original illustrations...

In our third volume of Robert Silverberg Ace Double novels you get “Invaders from Earth,” a great tale about an outer space scam gone horribly wrong.  In “Collision Course,” the discovery of another, more-advanced race shakes the very foundations of humanity.  “The Silent Invaders” throws one man into the middle of a three-pronged conflict threatening Earth...

Three more science fiction classics from Robert Silverberg.  One of the most notable contributers to Ace Books’ science fiction double novel series of the 1950s and 1960s was Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg, who graced Ace’s pages with a dozen novels over a seven-year period,1957-1964... 

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...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and fantasy double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is a terrific tale of subterranean adventure and horror, Stanton A. Coblentz’s “The Midgets of Monoton.”  The second tale in this great double novel is by Alexander Blade, “War of the Giant Apes.”  Having discovered ape-like Martians on the faraway…

(1968) Hideaki Nitani, Naoko Kubo.  One of the worst movies ever.  Indeed, at a whopping 1.6, Mighty Jack has the lowest IMDB rating we’ve ever seen. Yet in spite of the bad film hoopla, this movie is filled with mindless fun.  It’s got tons of late ‘60s Toho-style special effects with many minatures of flying submarines, rockets, ray guns, etc. The plot has Mighty Jack (a counter-espionage team) fighting to save Earth from “Q,” an organization hellbent on world domination...

(1962, Upgraded 10/14/21) Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig, Geoffrey Keen. Heavy-duty sci-fi about strange sensory deprivation experiments. Bogarde, in a somber, thoughtful role, tries to prove his experiments will help serve as a form of...

91958, Upgraded 11/7/21) Richard Travis, Kathy Downs, K. T. Stevens, Gary Clarke, Tommy Cook, Michael Whalen. A lovable drive-in turkey. Somewhat similar to CAT WOMEN OF THE MOON, but a few different plot twists are thrown in, including monstrous lunar rock men that threaten...

MISSION PHANTOM (1967) Fernando Sancho, Eduardo Fajardo, Ingrid Schoeller.  If you don’t take this film too seriously, you’ll probably love it.  A shoddy band of “free souls” from a variety of countries and backgrounds are gathered together to pull off what seems to be a clearly "impossible" caper.  This involves breaking into a highly-guarded place with seemingly impenetrable security...

(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...

(1963 aka THE ATOMIC BRAIN, Upgraded 10/17/21) Frank Gerstle, Marjorie Eaton, Judy Bamber, Erika Peters, Frank Fowler. Unbelievable! One of the greatest schlockfests of the 1960s. A mad scientist is hired by a millionaire spinster to transplant her brain into the body of a young girl...

(1953) Jose Maria Linares-Rivas, Miroslava, Carlos Nivarro, Fernando Wagner, Alberto Mariscal. One of the best South-of-the-Border horror films ever. The Monstrous Dr. Crimen looks and plays like a

(1983) Vladimir Gostyukhin, Vasiliy Livanov, Yuriy Solomin, Vladimir Kenigson.  After a strange incident, a group of Ruskie space commandos begin to develop seemingly supernatural powers.  The question is…how did they acquire these powers, and—more importantly—what now are their intentions?  

(1976) Giulio Brogi, Anna Karina, John Steiner.  A castaway arrives on a strange island with high, rocky cliffs. He stumbles upon a futuristic set of buildings, which are fabulous in design and interior contents.  Upon closer examination he discovers that everything is covered with dust—the buildings have been deserted for many years.  Then strange things start happening...

(1970) Dean Jones, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin, Rafael Alonso.  Jones is a professor working on a cure for the common cold.  He also happens into a mysterious Indian potion that makes one invisible, which he has occasion to use.  When a gang of crooks find out about Jones' invisibility serum, naturally they come after him.   Will Jones discover his antidote, beat the crooks, and get the girl? 

(1941) Aleksey Krasnopolsky, Pavel Kiyansky, A. Andriyenko-Zemskov.  This is a terrific Russian version of the classic Jules Verne science fiction-adventure tale.  Five fugitives escape from a mob during the middle of a Civil War battle by stealing a hot air balloon.  They soon find themselves deposited on a crag-riddled island filled with peril, including wild apes marauding pirates, and a primitive caveman...

(1956) Ivan Pereverzev, Konstantin Bartashevich, Mikhail Astangov, Apollon Yachnitskiy, Danuta Stolyarskaya. An underwater explosion at the bottom of the Pacific wreaks havoc with underwater eco-systems.  The likely cause appears to be radiation and a new element.  Scientists head to the ocean depths to figure out what’s going on...

(1962) Wolf Rubinski,Julio Aleman, Armando Silvestre, Rosa Arenas. Our black-masked Mexican atomic super hero goes up against a gang of nefarious criminals who are conspiring to steal a volatile form

(1983, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman, Anna Kannakis.  Giancarlo and Fred are wandering mercenaries who help the survivors of a post-apocalypse fight off a group of evil homosexual biker dudes...

(1965, Anamorphic Edition) John Saxon, Maurice Denhand, Patricia Haines, Alfred Burke.  A monstrous alien creature from Ganymede comes to Earth looking for young Earth females.  Why? To kidnap them...

(1958) Michael Emmet, Ed Nelson, Angela Greene.   It’s the first time in widescreen DVD video for this ‘50s drive-in gem!  A spaceship returns to Earth carrying an astronaut who's been impregnated with alien embryos, also on board is an alien monster that terrorizes a group of scientists in their mountain laboratory...

(1965, Upgraded 7/11/22) Terrance Morgan, Jessica Dunning, Joseph O’Conor, Hannah Gordon, George Pastell.  An excellent B&W made-for-TV Brit feature.  The Earth has blown up!  No one knows why or how—it just happened.  One lonely Earth survivor (Morgan) is a nomadic tinker on Mars.  He spurns the love of a Martian woman in favor of shipping out to a colony on Venus, hoping to build a better life.  But things are not what he...

 (1962) Maria Perschy, Robert Cunningham, Uwe Friedrichsen, Karen Blanguernon, Gustavo Rojo.  Earth is in great peril.  Invading aliens attempt conquest by taking over peoples’ bodies at death.  They then use them as tools for their invasion plans...

(1963) Renato Salvatori, Rosemary Dexter, Franco Luzzi, Mara Carisi.  This exceptional sci-fi film is filled with satire, comedy, and socially provocative moments.  A factory worker’s corpse is found in a culvert.  At the autopsy, the body miraculously comes back to life!  An alien named Omicron has taken control and slowly starts to learn his body’s functions...

(1968) Emil Horvath, Magda Vasarykova, Frantisek Filipovsky.  The fourth of Karel Zeman’s Verne films is a voyage into fantastic visual wizardry.  Adapted from Verne’s Hector Servadac, it recounts how a massive chunk of Earth becomes a comet, soaring across space with all of the area’s populace still on it...

ONCE IN A NEW MOON (1934) 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 presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Here’s a great paperback edition of that science fiction classic, “Operation: Outer Space” by the master of space opera, Murray Leinster.  They were alone and together among the stars!  A terrifying darkness engulfed the sky while on the horizon a fire flood consumed the Mountain!  The ship swayed again...

(1977) W. Gordon Allen, Juan Fava, Uri Geller, Trevor Constable. This film was one of a plethora of sci-fi and horror exploitation documentaries to come out in the wake of Chariots of the Gods. In this one, we’re led to believe that UFOs may actually be visiting us from another dimension.  There are lots of supposedly “authentic” UFO occurrences...

(1960, Upgraded 1/12/23) Peter Williams, Harold Goldblatt, Gerald Flood, Gillian Ferguson. A seven-part mini-series about a trip to the moon and all the dangers involved.  It’s good old fashioned space opera, even if the special effects are a bit crude.  It starts with four scientists taking off for the moon.  A second rocket, an auto-piloted supply ship, is to follow.  However, when the auto pilot goes awry on the supply ship, it must be manually flown or the explorers will die in space...

(1960, Upgraded 1/19/23) George Coulouris, Gerald Flood, Pamela Barney, Hester Cameron. A routine trip to the moon is sabotaged by a fanatical author who believes in life on Mars. After taking over the spaceship, he

PATHFINDERS TO VENUS (1961, Upgraded 1/19/23) Gerald Flood, George Colouris, Pamela Barney, Graydon Gould, Hester Cameron.  Returning from their trip to Mars, the crew of MR4 intercept a distress signal from Captain Wilson, a U.S astronaut, and must change course for Venus to attempt a space rescue. But through the space periscope, Brown sees what appears to be a city on the planet’s surface...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  F. Van Wyck Mason's "Phalanxes of Atlans" is the twenty-fourth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  A lost world in the wilds of the Arctic!  Only in dim legends did mankind remember Atlantis and the Lost Tribes, that is, until Victor Nelson's extraordinary adventure into the Arctic unknown...

(1955, Upgraded 12/31/20) Kent Taylor, Kathy Downs, Michael Whalen, Helene Stanton This early AIP thriller (still known as American Releasing Corporation) was originally double billed with THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED. A crazed scientist unleashes a horrible, radioactive monster from the deep that menaces a small coastal village...

(1953) Ted Cooper, Noreen Nash. No classic, but this is a good, underrated little 'B' sci-fi opus about a group of people that find themselves pitted against an alien from outer space in the confines of a lonely observatory...

(1961) Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Dolores Faith, Anthony Dexter, Francis X Bushman, Richcard Kiel.  There is something ultimately likable about this underrated sci-fi B-opus.  Astronaut Fredericks is stranded on a “phantom” planetoid. There he finds a race of miniature people menaced by a fleet of marauding alien monsters who attack in their flaming spaceships. This film is loaded with...

(1968) Mauro Parenti, Lucretia Love, Gordon Mitchell, John Karlsen.   The title character is a masked superhero very much in the mold as Diabolik.  There’s a great pre-credit sequence where he takes on a shipload of drug dealers.  Our hero then pops in and out the rest of the way as he searches for a magical golden relic, all the while trying to keep the bad guys from looting King Tut’s treasures...  

(1959, Widescreen) Gregory Walcott, Dudley Manlove, Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, Tom Keene, Duke Moore, Mona McKinnon, Lyle Talbot, Joanna Lee, Paul Marco. Not the worst movie ever made, (try watching MESA OF LOST WOMEN or THE ATOMIC BRAIN sometime) but certainly one of the most lovable bad movies ever...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Frank Belknap Long’s “Planet without Love” is the first tale in this double novel. It was a planet where sex and love were crimes of the first magnitude. How long can a girl suppress the romantic desires that are natural to a beautiful and healthy female?  The second tale in this double novel is Frank M. Robinson’s “The Dead End Kids of Space.” It would one day be called, “The Great Interplanetary Heist!” Peter Johnson was a brilliant scientist who was just starting to make his mark...

(1962) Michel Lemoine, Jany Clair, Maria Luzi, Peter Dane, Otello Toso. This is a surprisingly effective film about invading aliens who commit sabotage while in the duplicate form of a human that the

(1950, updated 5/14/24) Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Johann Peturrson, Judy Landon, John Merrick. Prehistoric babes battle giants and dragons during ancient times. Nixon is captured by the drop-dead gorgeous Luez and her tribe of cave babe beauties, who eventually realize the importance of having a good man around.  The best scene is where Nixon battles an enormous...

RETURN OF CHANDU (1934) Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba; CITY OF LOST MEN (1935) Kane Richmond, Bill Boyd; ISLAND CAPTIVES (1937) Eddie Nugent, Joan Barclay; TARZAN’S REVENGE (1938) Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holme.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1959) Ewald Balser, Wolfgang Preiss, Barbara Rütting, Cornell Borchers, Wolfgang Kieling, Karin Baal.  Balser is a mad scientist conducting weird transplant experiments in the lab at his secluded chateau.  Preiss is the doctor he lures into helping him, not knowing that the cadavers used in the procedures are...

(1966, Upgraded 3/15/20) Bryant Halliday, Mary Peach, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr, Derrick De Marney. A reckless scientist decides to use himself as a guinea pig in his experiments with matter transmission from place to place by means of a...

(1958) Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell. An unusual hull resembling an unexploded bomb is found in an English building site containing weird, insect-like creatures with faces like gargoyles. Inexplicable incidents occur and it's discovered that strange...

(1953, Upgraded 11/6/21) Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean, Hugh Kelly, Duncan Lamont. These are the only two surviving episodes of the famed British six-part mini-series. Professor Quatermass and his Experimental Rocket Group send a man into space. When the spacecraft returns to Earth they find, inexplicably, that only one of the crewmen is still on board...

(1955, Upgraded 11/6/21) John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, John Stone. This is the original 6-part teleseries that was the follow-up to the earlier teleseries, The Quatermass Experiment (1953). There is something very wrong with a huge chemical factory out in the wilds of rural England. An alien horror is...

Armchair fiction presents deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Ralph Milne Farley’s “The Radio Beasts” is a classic science fiction story, much in the vein of Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Accidentally shot into space while conducting experiments with the radio transmission of matter, Myles Cabot had inadvertently landed on Venus, and in two short, thrill-filled years he had changed the entire course of civilization...

(1983) Christopher Connelly, Gioia Scola, Tony King, Ivan Rassimov, Stefano Mingardo, Bruce Baron, George Hilton. Scientists work to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine off the coast of Florida.  In doing so, they unearth an ancient Atlantean relic.  Soon a massive event is triggered...

(1949) Keiju Kobayashi, Teruko Akatsuki, Katsuko Wakasugi, Den Obinata. A forgotten horror/sci-fi classic!  Considered by some historians as the first Japanese sci-fi film, though the sci-fi elements are, admittedly, somewhat slight.  A young woman becomes the prime suspect in a murder mystery. Her gal pal and boyfriend set out to prove her innocence.  They soon end up in a forlorn, out of the way house filled with mystery and dread...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  “Reclaimers of the Ice” is an exciting tale by one of the early masters of 20^th Century science fiction, Stanton A. Coblentz.  They were stranded at the top of the world!  It was a fool’s dream to think that any man could do the impossible and conquer the world’s most desolate Arctic wasteland without consequence...

(1961 aka THE PHANTOM MEETS THE RETURN OF DR. MABUSE, Upgraded 12/30/20) Lex Barker, Gerte Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss. Sequel to THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE. Forbe and Barker play detectives on the trail of the maniacal Mabuse who plots...

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...

ROAD TO THE STARS (1957) Georgi Solovyov, directed by Pavel Klushantsev.  A landmark man-into-space film from the man who gave us Planet of Storms.  The first half of this short 50-minute feature is mainly about the soviet space program, focusing on scientific contributions of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and other famous soviet scientists.  However, in the second half, the film turns into a science fiction film, with many great outer space scenes...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is by veteran science fiction author Paul Ernst, “Rulers of the Future.”  They spiraled through time and across the Universe.  The second novel is “Pursuit,” written by all-time sci-fi great, Lester del Rey.  He was relentlessly chased…but by what...?

(1959, aka The Day the Earth Froze) Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov, Andris Osins, Ada Voytsik. A superb Finnish fantasy epic about an evil witch who steals the sun and causes just about everything on the Earth to freeze. Also featured are magic harps, fields of snakes, a wizard, and a...

(1964, Upgraded 11/23/22) John Call, Pia Zadora, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon, Victor Stiles. So bad it's great.  Martians travel into the void of outer space on a secret mission to Earth.  Their mad scheme?  Kidnap Santa Claus and bring him back to Mars!  For what purpose?  To engage his services for...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  Escape from the mundane and blast off into adventure!  Let our newest Science Fiction Collection be your guide to interplanetary adventure.  Explore the lush and strange life of a foreign planet in “Riddle of the Deadly Paradise.”  Or take a ride abroad a spaceship bound for galactic adventure in “Space Rays” or...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  Enjoy our fifteenth collection of Science Fiction Gems, which features some great fiction by brilliant writers.  These stories are a pretty brilliant group—a real nice batch to cozy up to...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  Blast off with this, our seventeenth great collection of Science Fiction Gems, which features a terrific batch of tales by many of the top writers from science fiction’s past: Raymond Z. Gallun, Roger Dee, David H. Keller, Randall Garrett, Wallace West, & others.  

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  It’s time for our sixteenth collection of vintage Science Fiction Gems, filled to the brim with great tales by top authors:  L. Sprague de Camp, Milton Lesser, Chad Oliver, Carl Jacobi, Rog Phillips, Stanley Mullen and more...  

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Sea Girl” by Ray Cummings is the 32nd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Earth’s lifeblood was disappearing—fast!  Dr. Plantet was one of those genius scientists who was always creating and discovering new fantastical things. Mankind depended on him when things went...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels with original illustrations.  Here’s a very special edition of an early science fiction classic, “The Second Deluge, The Ultimate Illustrated Edtion” by Garrett P. Serviss.  What makes this edition so special is that it features original illustrations by four of the top science fiction illustrators of that era:  Frank R. Paul, Leo Morey, Lawrence Stevens (known simply as “Lawrence”), and George Varian....

(1963) Gerald Flood, Peter Williams, Stewart Guidotti, Denis Goacher, Richard Coleman, Delena Kidd.  A sequel to the earlier sci-fi mini-series “City Beneath the Sea,” again taking place in the undersea city of Aegira.  A journalist goes to the ocean floor to look for a rare metal known as “Phenicium,” which—as it turns out—is pretty vital for outer space research...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Charles Willing Beale's "The Secret of the Earth" is the twenty-second installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  A lost world at the Polar Ice Cap.  Was it a hair-brained scheme, or would it be the most stupendous scientific journey ever undertaken by man...?

(1969) Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Karlis Sebris.  It’s a post-apocalyptic world in which mankind has been decimated by an unknown plague.  Cities are on fire; millions have died.  A young couple is detained by the government and sequestered into a beach house to conceive a child in an effort to save mankind. They are soon visited by strange riders and a massive whale dies on their beach...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  He’s back again!  Yes…welcome back to Richard S. Shaver’s weird worlds with “The Shaver Mystery, Book Eight.”  Dive into the catacombs of Richard Shaver’s mind with this batch of Shaver stories.  Here you'll discover some truly wild tales that feature a number of his most wonderful—and weirdest—women...

Betty Blythe, Carlyle Blackwell. A female goddess rules over a lost city. She gained her power and immortality by stepping into a flame of supposed eternal life. Classic fantasy. Music score.

SHIKARI (1963) Ajit, Ragini, K.N. Singh, Helen, Madan Puri.  This is the Indian version of King Kong and it's so bad, that it’s a delight.  The plot involves the efforts to capture King Kong by a circus company. The Circus owners and their scientist adviser take off in a big ship to Kong’s island.  The final scene when Kong storms the native village is mesmerizingly bad...

(1953) Mikhail Bolduman, Sofiya Pilyavskaya, Valentina Ushakova, Nikolai Timofeyev. This obscure Soviet sci-fi film (made at the height of the Cold War) is unique because the setting is in the U.S.  Bolduman  plays a scientist whose first allegiance is money, rather than science.  With a big profit motive in mind, he invents a mighty new weapon of mass destruction—a deadly radioactive powder...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  David Douglas's "The Silver God of the Orang Hutan, Illustrated Edition" is the nineteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  In this tale, there’s a monstrous beast in darn near every chapte...

For the first time in paperback, Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, “Slaves to the Metal Horde,” is another engaging science fic

(1954) Paul Langton, Leslie Denison. An abominable snowman is captured and brought back to Los Angeles where it escapes and terrorizes the community. From the same folks who gave you KILLERS FROM SPACE. Upgr

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Written by famed British India author Ganpat, “Snow Rubies” is the 46^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  The story concerns a mysterious valley in a distant part of the world.  A passage lost to time lay undiscovered until Commander Frank Weston unwittingly happened upon a...

Special 35mm Widescreen Edition (1966) Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Barbara Frey, Luisa Rivelli, Ernst Fritz Furbringer.  Tony and Brad protect a scientist and his amazing power beam that can destroy targets 300 miles away!  The mysterious Golden Dragon and his machine-gun and whip wielding babes try to steal the power beam...

(1965) Ronald Lewis, John Gabriel, Jane Downs, Richard Gale, Delena Kidd.  This made-for-TV Brit sci-fi film is absolutely riveting.  A strange tramp collapses near the home of a doctor, who himself has been suffering from bad dreams.  In his nightmares he repeatedly sees someone resembling the tramp.  The tramp is admitted to the hospital, clutching a small, decaying...

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...

(1976) Lisa Harrow, Christian Quadflieg, Pierre Brice, Christiane Krüger, Judy Geeson, Derek Farr.  A wandering planet from deep space drifts into the solar system and is detected by Earth scientists who soon investigate. The planet is called Medusa; its surface is uninhabitable and its people now live in a high-tech underground city. This subterranean society is ruled by women...

(1977) Yanti Somer, Gianni Garko, Malisa Longo, Chris Avran.  An "exciting" sci-fi thriller about a horrible alien mastermind who's chosen the Earth for annihilation.  The Earth sends a fleet of starships to fight against the super robots from this far-off galaxy...

(1973) Keir Dullea, William Osler, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, Ed Ames.  Dullea leads a trio of space adventurers who are on a desperate mission to save Earthship Ark—a massive spaceship that houses the remnants of mankind.  Unknown to most people in the Ark’s biospheres, the ship is on a collision course with a distant star...

(1973) Keir Dullea, Walter Koenig, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, Henry Beckman.  The people of The Ark discover a humanoid alien (Koenig) living in one of their domes.  His spaceship needs repairs before he can return to his own planet, so he enlists help from the Ark members.  But there is some duplicity going on—what is the alien hiding...

(1973) Keir Dullea, Robin Ward, Gay Rowan, John Colicos. Three simple farmers discover a hidden door in the earth. When they open it, they find they are not actually on Earth, but in a colossal spac

(1973) Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Robin Ward, Stephen Young, Budd Knapp.  Dullea, as Devon, has been seriously injured.  Rowan, as Rachel, sends out a request for help to an astro-medic ship.  However, there is an alien spacecraft in the area also seeking help. With lives hanging in the balance, the astro-medics are torn over...

(1973) Keir Dullea, Gay Rowan, Lloyd Bochner, Robin Ward, Edward Andrews. A giant spaceship known as The Ark, drifts aimlessly through space with the last remnants of humanity in huge Earth-like dome

(1957) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada.  Over 100 minutes of mindless Japanese superhero sci-fi fun.  This two-disc set is in Japanese with no subtitles but the plots are so simple that it’s pretty darn easy to figure out what’s going on.  Our hero, Starman, battles enemy agents galore, all the while befriending a group of school children and concerned adults.  There are lots of lab scenes, fistfights, and...

(1957) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada.  Another 100 minutes of spaced-out Japanese superhero schlockiness.  This two-disc set is in Japanese with no subtitles but the storylines are so obvious it’s fairly simple to fathom what’s going on.  The big guy, Starman, takes on various bad guys...

(1957) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada. Over 150 minutes of simple Japanese superhero sci-fi fun. This two-disc set is in Japanese with no subtitles but—as with Vol. One—the plots are so simple that it’s quite easy to follow what’s going on.  Our hero, Starman, once again battles an endless array of villians as he flies about the galaxy, providing even more...

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...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is “Strange Mission” by sci-fi and fantasy veteran Howard Browne.  Arthur Pendran was like most average joes: young, able and ready to join the war efforts. The only problem was his colorblindness that had prevented any doctor from clearing him for active duty.  The second novel is Paul Ernst’s exciting tale, “The Raid on the Termites.”  Into the tiny corridors of crawling death...

(1965) Richard O'Callaghan, Justine Lord, Eric Lander, Peter Copley.  In this brilliant British made-for TV feature, a young man called 'Boy' (no relation to Tarzan) is born with no fingernails.  He’s gifted with a brain that eventually enables him to exert mind control over others...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels and short stories, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a terrific tale by one of the best science fiction authors of both today and yesterday, George Zebrowski’s “Stranger Suns.”  Physicist Juan Obrion designed his orbiting tachyon detector to listen for signs of life in other star systems.  And though he doesn’t anticipate the failure his employers expect, the last place he thought to trace a signal was to Earth itself...  

(1973) Glenn Corbett, Cameron Mitchell, Lew Ayres, Sharon Acker, Dean Jagger, George Colouris.  Corbett plays an astronaut who, after a mishap in space that leaves his fellow astronauts dead, finds himself in a strange medical center where no one is able to give him any answers.  After escaping, he soon realizes he’s no longer on Earth but a similar planet...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Written by famed pulp author Harl Vincent, “Subterrania” is the 44^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  In this edition you get two lost world-lost race classics in one.  “Subterrania” is a dynamite combination of two of Harl Vincent’s best works...

(1979) Tayfun Demir, Güngör Bayrak, Yildirim Gencer, Esref Kolçak, Nejat Özbek.  Okay, let’s face it, this is a LOW-budget Turkish super hero film, which as a genre make people like Ed Wood look like geniuses.  You know what kind of low-budget dredge to expect when the special effects include a...

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...

(1956) Boris Andreyev, Shukur Burkhanov, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva, Nelli Myshkova, Sergey Martinson.  A wonderful Russian fantasy about a legendary warrior who fights to save his people from an assortment of horrible monsters including a dragon, a wind demon, and other legendary creatures.  There are many great scenes and the special effects, for the time, were very well done...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “The Swordsman of Sarvon” by Charles Cloukey.  The world was on the verge of interplanetary war!  The second novel is “The Power Planet” by heralded science fiction author, Murray Leinster.  It was an insidious power play for the Ultimate Power...

(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...  

(1957, Upgraded 11/15/21) Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Paul Pepper, Steve Conte, Brianne Murphy, Jay Hawk, Nan Green. A bunch of teenage kids land on an island filled with scientific terrors and zombies!  Nerve gas is used by the lady mad scientist (who inhabits the island) to turn some of the teenagers into mindless zombie slaves...

(1959, Upgraded 10/17/21) David Love, Dawn Anderson, Bryan Grant, Harvey Dunn, King Moody. If you look at this as a professional Hollywood production, this picture leaves something to be desired. However if you look at it as an amateur film, (which it actually originally was, it's amazingly well done. A group of marauding teenage aliens plans to use earth as the breeding ground for...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Fred Ashley's "The Temple of Fire, Illustrated Edition" is the sixteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, and it features a plethora of typical lost world-lost race thrills, packed to the gills with ancient civilizations, strange sea creatures, uncharted islands, monstrous beasts, etc...

(1959) Robert Burton, Barbara Wilson, Stan Gester, Bengt Blomgren, Ake Gronberg. Scientists investigate the landing of an Alien spaceship in Lapland. The aliens deposit a giant, furry monster that...

(1954) William Lundigan, Naomi Chance, Vincent Ball, Jean Lodge. What a great treat this turned out to be. Three people tow a drifting yacht into port, but upon arrival they learn the yacht’s crew has...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “The Battery of Hate,” by one of the founding fathers of modern science fiction, John W. Campbell.  The second novel is “Treasure of the Golden God” by veteran sci-fi author, A. Hyatt Verrill...   

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The lead off novel is a poignant novel of a new disease, far worse than Covid-19, David H. Keller’s “The Red Death.”  The second novel is Emerson B. Hartman’s “Lunarchia,” a hollow moon sci-fi adventure.

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “The Scarlet Saint” by Manly Banister.  He led a revolt against an invincible enemy!  The second novel is “The Man from Saturn” by veteran science fiction author, Harriet Frank.  She had never met a man like him before...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels and short stories, complete with original illustrations.  “These are My Children” was one of Rog Phillips’ most ambitious works.  When Mr. Archer sat down next to Peter Hart on a commercial flight headed toward New York, little did Hart realize that none of his fellow passengers could see Archer except him...

(1961) Eugenia Balaure, Haralambie Boros, Emil Botta, Florin Piersic.  This is perhaps the most surrealistic, offbeat sci-fi film ever made.  It starts with a man accidentally walking into a nuclear test area.  He is apprehended by a squad of men dressed like spacemen, all of whom are holding big ray guns.  He is soon released, but later finds himself the recipient of a fantastic, futuristic suitcase nuclear bomb...

(1935, Upgraded 3/21/21) Raymond Massey, Ralph Richardson, Cedric Hardewicke, Edward Chapman, Margaretta Scott, Sophie Stewart. The screens adaptation of H. G. Wells futuristic tales of man's survival after a series of wars and catastrophes. Final segment involving "the space gun" is...

(1971) Jack Hedley, John Carson, Alethea Charlton, Sonia Graham. A brilliant scientist has a fantastic plan to secure research money.  He has invented an amazing machine that transfers the mind of one person into the body of another.  He and his wife lure...

(1962) Seamon Glass, Mary Morias. Social science fiction at its best. A state trooper stops people along a highway after hearing news of an impending nuclear attack. Good drama as cast members fight and quarrel over what to do before the bombs hit...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Thus Far” is a terrific sci-fi murder mystery.   Had he gone too far for the sake of science?  Once a heralded name among the top scientists of the world, Graham Delaforce was now ridiculed for his enigmatic and strange ideas.  But his self-imposed exile never stopped his...

(1944, Upgraded 4/28/24) Evelyn Dall, Tommy Handley, George Moon, Felix Aylmer. This is a marvelous sci-fi comedy about a quirky professor who’s invented a combo spaceship/time machine. It’s a great big silver sphere...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  “Time Quarry” aka "First He Died" is one of the great science fiction novels of the 20^th Century.   Published in Galaxy Magazine in 1950, it put author Clifford D. Simak’s name clearly in the science fiction spotlight...

(1977) Sonny Chiba, Jun Etô.  A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. The squad leader, Lt. Iba, sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of becoming the ruler of Japan...

(1956) Tommy Terrell, Arthur Space, Bruce Cowling, Gavin Gordon. Terrell and his robot, Tobor, land aboard an atomic sub that’s been heisted by criminals.  The sub also has a ticking bomb on board and has been targeted for a nuclear strike!  Gordon (Bride of Frankenstein) has a nice part as a madman who wants to rule the world.  A little schlocky but good fun.  

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   A grim look at the future is the theme of the first novel, “Tomorrow” by John Tains.  The world was on the verge of total collapse!  One of the most popular writers of 1930s science fiction, Neil R. Jones, is the author of our next tale, “Martian and Troglodyte.”  They discovered life on a budding planet!  A team of Martian scientists raced across...

(1977, Anamorphic Widescreen) Petr Kostka, Jirí Sovák, Vladimír Mensík, Vlastimil Brodský.  This is a brilliant Czech-made sci-fi comedy with many great moments.  A former Nazi, now living in the 1990s by virtue of anti-aging pills, plans to travel through time to 1944 Germany and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb so the Nazis can win the war...

(1958) Toto, Sylva Koscina, Ugo Tognazzi.  An enjoyable off-beat sci-fi comedy about aliens who try to stop the launching of a man into space.  Lots of intrigue and some genuine laughs.  The final scenes on the moon are quite well done.  Look for some...

 (1966) Ronald Hines, Petra Davie, Peter Madden, Gay Hamilton, Peter Madden Timothy Bateson.  Hines is haunted by the same dream every night, a dream in which he dies during a massive explosion at a chemical plant.  His wife, too, is haunted by similar dreams.  And why do they seem to be reliving the same 24 hours, with slight variations, day after day...

THE TUNNEL (1933) Jean Gabin, Madeleine Renaud, Robert Le Vigan, Andre Nox.  There’s a big meeting between the world’s fifteen richest industrialists.  A project is launched to build a tunnel from Long Island to Europe.  As the tunnel progresses, its workers are faced with many perils...

(1974) Nick Pakias, Cynthia Cline, LaVerne Light, Phil Erickson.  This ‘70s oddity is about an electronics pro who spends  his time searching for evidence of aliens from space.  He soon picks up eerie signals he believes are emanating from an alien spaceship.  

(1981) Kirsty Wilkinson, Lance Warren, Roy Leywood, William Johnson, Glynis McNicoll, Noel Trevarthn, William Ewens.  This is an amazing mini-series (8.1 rating on IMDB).  Two three-year old twins, a boy and a girl, are lost in the cold New Zealand woods.  Search parties are unable to find them.  They are saved by a strange glow from the sky...

THE UNKNOWN MAN OF SHANDIGOR—Widescreen Edition (1966) Daniel Emilfork, Marie-France Boyer, Howard Vernon. This is one of the most unique European sci-fi-intrigue thrillers you will ever see—seriously.  It’s filled with brilliant filmmaking unlike anything you would ever see in other similar films of the era...  

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Vampires of the Andes” by Henry Carew is the 31st installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  “Silence and beware!  The vampires will soon awaken!”  The day Don Carlos della Priégo and Josetta Hernandez were wed, they recived a startling gift that would change the rest of their lives.  As they were about to set off into...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Fred Williams, Jack Taylor, Ewa Strömberg, Roberto Camardiel, Siegfried Lowitz, directed by Jesús Franco.  Dr. Mabuse is on the loose again, this time abducting beautiful women in order to subject them to a powerful mind control ray...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels with original illustrations.  Here’s a great space opera classic, “Venus Liberated” by one of the early masters of sci-fi, Harl Vincent.  Join heroes Ralph Prescott and Teddy Crowley as they venture to Venus in a new, cutting-edge spaceship, only to find themselves thrown into the middle of an interplanetary war...

(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...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  This first novel in this pairing is “Voyage into the Lightning” by heralded science fiction author Robert Moore Williams.  What horror lay behind the electrical aberrations?  The second novel is from another of science fiction’s upper tier, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s “The Colors of Space.”  It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive...

(1933) Conrad Veidt, Marie Ney, Basil Gill, Anne Grey, Dennis Hoey.  A big, sprawling epic fantasy.  Veidt plays a Jew who goes to Christ, asking him to cure his mistress’s illness.  Christ tells him that when she returns to her real husband she will be cured.  Refusing to let her, Veidt essentially condemns her to death.  Then, when Christ is staggering toward his crucifixion, Veidt spits on him in contempt...

 (1966) Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff.  This amazing docu-drama is about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Britain.  It pulls no punches.  There are scenes of destruction, radiation poisoning, food riots, etc. that will leave a lasting impression...

(1966, aka GENOCIDE) Yusuke Kawazu, Emi Shindo, Kathy Moran, Ralph Jesser. It’s man against bugs in this cool sci-fi shocker. A plane carrying an atomic bomb is attacked by a new strain of killer bees...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and fantasy double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is a terrific tale of interplanetary conflict, R. H. Roman’s “The War of the Planets.”  It was a tremendous battle of three worlds. The second novel is by that great science fiction storyteller, David H. Keller, M. D., “The Feminine Metamorphosis.”  When a hospital sprung up in the middle of rural China, no one thought much of it...

(1956, Upgraded 4/29/24) Toyomi Karita, Keizo Kawasaki, Bin Yagisawa, Shozo Nanbu. Now you can have both the English language and original Japanese language versions of this ‘50s sci-fi classic. Great quality on both...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The first offering is “The War-Nymphs of Venus” penned by veteran sci-fi author Ray Cummings. The city of Arron was lively, but the invasion of the Gort people threatened their way of life!  The second novel is Tom Godwin’s “Space Prison.”  Marooned on a hell world!  Its name was Ragnarok, the most dreaded planet ever...

(1959, upgraded 4/24/23) Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Fred (Anthony) Eisley, Barboura Morris, directed by Roger Corman. An eccentric scientist develops a revolutionary youth-restoring beauty cream for the aging head of a cosmetics firm (Cabot). To her amazement, she finds that when she uses it on herself she becomes 20 years younger in appearance! There's just one little problem—she also finds herself occasionally changing into a horrible...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  “Weird Tales: Lost World-Lost Race Stories, Vol. One” edited by Gregory Luce is the 43^rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Weird Tales magazine was a treasure trove of lost world-lost race gems...

 (1971) Anthony Ainley, Jennifer Hilary, Bernard Brown, Derek Benfield, Gerald Sim.  This amazing British teleplay concerns a doctor who returns home from the hospital following a car accident, only to be told he’s not who he is.  Another doctor, with the same name, is living with his wife.  He is told that he is suffering from...

WELCOME TO BLOOD CITY (1976) Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse.  This oddball film is an interesting mixture of both western and sci-fi elements.  Five people wake up and have no idea who they are or where they’re at.  It turns out they’re in some kind of strange western town where people advance in stature through assassination.  It all, of course, turns out to be part of a scientific experiment...

(1958) Adam Faith, Sidney James, Carole Lesley, Terence Longdon, Clive Dunn, Charles Hawtrey.  This is a fine little British adventure-comedy with a nice touch of science fiction at the film’s climax.  A down on his luck writer thinks he’s hit the jackpot when he decides to write a book about the Loch Ness Monster...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “When the Earth Swung Over” by Alfred Colbeck is the 47^th installment of our “Lost World-Lost Race Classics” series.  It was a danger-filled rescue mission!  After Billy Wedge’s arrival at Thorswick Manor, he recounted how he and his shipwrecked companions had been captured by a lost South American race of...

(1972) Alfred Edel, Helga Skalla, Curt Jurgens, Hark Bohm.  This futuristic piece of sci-fi was was originally made as a TV movie.  Willi (Edel) wants to get away from the horrors of galactic war, even if it means leaving his family.   He ends up becoming a PR man for a big wig in the space fleet...

WIND VELOCITY 75 METERS—Widescreen Edition (1963) Ken Utsui, Jirô Tamiya, Junko Kanô, Hideo Takamatsu.  Set around the Japanese city of Ginza, this film is a classic disaster movie with a mixture of drama, corporate intrigue, and crime. A reporter (Ken Utsui) investigates a homicide in Tokyo’s bustling construction scene, meanwhile a super typhoon is brewing in the Pacific and Ginza is square in its sights!  

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels.  The first novel is “The World at Bay” by veteran science fiction writers B. Wallis & Geo. C. Wallis.  They came from inside the earth, an invasion of strange, short, pale creatures. The second novel is Capt. S. P. Meek’s “The Red Peril,” which is a great tale from the golden age of Amazing Stories magazine...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  A. Hyatt Verrill's "The World of the Giant Ants" is the twenty-third installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Giants really do exist!  While on an exploration of a far-off land, noted scientist Dr. Hendon, along with his faithful servant Tom, become stranded in a lost world filled with giant insects...

THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE (1939, upgraded 3/29/23) Erich Von Stroheim, Claude Dauphin, Madeleine Sologne, Armand Bernard, Robert Le Vigan, Henri Guisol.  In one of the best sc-fi films of the 1930s, Von Stroheim plays a wealthy financier who has funded the experiments of a scientist played by Dauphin, who has perfected a machine that can predict the exact date of your death...

(1934) Harry Piel, Kurt Vespermann, Anni Markart, Rudolf Klein-Rogge.  Verspermann is an inventor who invents a radio-television device that, unfortunately, doesn’t work!  Piel is the suave con-man who convinces him to carry on.  There are tons of lab scenes filled with fantastic electrical devices.  When a freak accident happens, the device is somehow endowed with the ability to see through any object and project the image onto its television screen...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is fantastic science-fantasy by veteran science fiction author Charles Eric Maine, “World Without Men.”  It was a world where women ruled with an iron fist!  Our second novel is “The Synthetic Men,” written by pulp specialist Ed Earl Repp.  He tried to play god...

(1963) Tim Holt, Jack Herman, James Britton, Ann Pellegrino, Charles Young. This is such a low-budget picture, yet in spite of its abysmal cheapness, this sci-fi oddity is engaging from beginning to

(1967, Upgraded 4/16/21) Yeong-il Oh, Jeong-im Nam, Cho Kyoung-min, Kwang Hoo Lee, Moon Kang.  A scientific experiment seemingly sets off a series of earthquakes that ravage central Korea.  However, it turns out that they’re being caused by Yongary, whom the experiment awakened. Yongary just happens to be a gigantic, gasoline-consuming reptilian monster...