(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...

(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

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...

(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...

THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE (1939) 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...

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...

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!  

(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...

(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...

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...

 (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...

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...