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, Updated 3/21/25) Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne. Frank Shannon.  It's Flash against Ming again as the Purple Death threatens the Earth.  This horrible, Earth-threatening disease is believed to be the evil machination of that dastardly scoundrel...

(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?  

(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...

(1957, aka Frankie No Uchûjin) Frankie Sakai, Ichirô Sugai, Tomoko Kô, Ayuko Fujishiro, Tôru Abe.  This incredibly rare Japanese sci-fi film is now available for the first time with English subtitles.  Sakai plays numerous different parts in this grand science fiction comedy.  A professor and his pretty assistant profess to have knowledge of a flying saucer that has visited the Earth...

(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...

(1969, Upgraded 12/11/24) Nobuhiru Kajima, Miyuki Akiyama. Aliens fly two kids to another planet in an effort to lure Gamera into fighting another horrid monster, Guiron. This is one of the most luridly campy Gamera films with...

(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...