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.

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...

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... 

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...

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 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...

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 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 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...

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...

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 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...  

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 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...

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 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 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...

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...