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...

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THE INCREDIBLE PETRIFIED WORLD (1957) 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) 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...  

THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN (1959) Douglas Kennedy, Marguerite Chapman, James Griffith. Terrific fun as an escaped bank robber is subjected to an atomic ray machine that renders him invisible. Plus: BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1959) 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

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...

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

THE WASP WOMAN (1959) Susan Cabot, Michael Mark, Fred Eisley, directed by Roger Corman. Well done, low budget sci-fi. BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE (1959) Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff. Gangsters hiding in a mountain cabin are killed off by a horrible

ASSIGNMENT OUTER SPACE (1962) Rick Von Nutter, Archie Savage. Pure sci-fi with excellent Cinematography. THE PHANTOM PLANET (1961) Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Dolores Faith, Anthony Dexter, Francis X. Bushman. An enjoyable, underrated sci-fi 'B' opus about an astronaut who's stranded on an invisible

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

CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA (1961) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Morland, Edward Wain.  This is another of Roger Corman's horror comedies.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real.  Morland and Carbone are perfect in their roles (Betsy is as cute as a bug. PLUS:  DEVIL’S PARTNER (1958) Edwin Nelson, Edgar Buchannon, Jean Allison, Richard Crane.  A strange man comes to claim his inheritance in a small desert town and brings along with him satanic rites, evil spells and death!  He also has occasion to change himself into various wild animals when killing off his enemies...  

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...  

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.

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... 

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...

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...

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!