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(1933-1964) Here's a bundle of FIVE terrific films, all with a holiday or family theme to them—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  WHO KILLED SANTA CLAUS (1941); PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK (1935); THE PHANTOM WAGON (1939); THE WANDERING JEW (1933); SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS (1964)  See more...

DEMENTIA 13 (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) William Campbell, Luana Anders, Patrick Magee, Bart Patton.  A choice chiller set in an eerie mansion with ax murders a-plenty.  A scheming widow plans to snag her late husband’s inheritance, unaware that she is targeted by an axe-wielding killer... THE TERROR (1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight, Dick Miller, Jonathan Haze. Jack’s a wandering soldier who traces a ghostly lady to the castle of a mysterious baron played by Boris. Strange, supernatural things begin to happen...

SATAN’S TRIANGLE (1975) Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey, Jim Davis.  McClure and his Coast Guard helicopter pal come upon a shipwreck in an area called “Devil’s Triangle.”  When McClure is lowered to the ship he finds corpses galore... INN OF THE DAMNED (1975, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Alex Cord, Dame Judith Anderson, Michael Craig, Joseph Furst, Tony Bonner.   At a sinister old inn, the elderly owners have a habit of bumping off their guests in grisly fashion...

GLADIATORS 7 (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Richard Harrison, Loredana Nusciak, Gerard Tichy, Livio Lorenzon.  A gladiator epic with a dash of humor thrown in.  Framed for helping the escape of several gladiators... WAR GODS OF BABYLON (1962, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Howard Duff, Jocelyn Lane, Luciano Marin, Giancarlo Sbragia.  A powerful king and his naïve younger sibling clash over the affections of a gorgeous peasant woman...

INVISIBLE CREATURE (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Tony Wright, Patricia Dainton, Sandra Dorne, Sam Kydd, Derek Aylward.  Pretty Patricia Dainton inherits her aunt’s estate, which includes a valuable but haunted mansion... UNCLE WAS A VAMPIRE (1959, 35mm English Anamorphic Ed.) (1959) Christopher Lee, Renato Rascel, Susanne Loret. Lee comes to visit his nephew (Rascel) in the hopes of finding some new female blood...

PSYCHO CIRCUS (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Margaret Lee, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski.  A botched heist ends with one of the criminals shooting a police officer. The shooter is given the chance to give the boss his share... RAT FINK (1966. Anamorphic Widescreen) Schuyler Hayden, Hal Bokar, Warrene Ott, Judy Hughes.  A great film!  Hayden is a ruthless rock singer wannabe who takes what he wants, unafraid to stamp out anybody who gets in his way...

DAY OF THE NIGHTMARE (1965, Anamorphic Wides.) John Ireland, Beverly Bains, Cliff Fields, Elena Verdugo, John Hart. A real unsung psycho-horror gem.  A woman seemingly returns from the grave to take revenge upon her enemies... THE SEVENTH GRAVE (1965, Anamorphic) Stéphania Nelli, Bruna Baini, Nando Angelini, Armando Guarnieri.  A collection of heirs gather for the reading of Sir Robert Thorne's will in a forlorn Scottish castle, which is reportedly haunted and also the hiding place of a lost treasure...

A NIGHT OF THE DEVILS (1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli, Roberto Maldera. This is a grim, superbly made Euro-horror film, much in flashback.  Garco’s car breaks down as he’s driving through the dark countryside. He seeks help from a strange family... SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT (1972 Anamorphic Widescreen) Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, John Carradine, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren. O’Neal inherits a mansion that was once a mental institution owned by his late grandfather...

INQUISITION (1976, Anamorphic Widescreen) Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano, Juan Gallardo.  Paul is a 16th century witch hunting judge.  He falls in love with the daughter of a warlock whom he sentenced to death.  She makes a pact with Satan and soon Naschy finds... CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS (1976, Anamorphic Widescreen) Ronald Tanet, Maureen Ridley, Wayne Mack. A GI returning from war becomes a hermit.  He moves into a shack out in a swamp. Believing the GI has a hidden stash of money, thieves sneak into his shack and murder him...

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...

MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953) Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier. The setting is London during the Jack the Ripper killing spree.  Palance plays a reserved research pathologist who takes up lodgings in a sitting room with a spooky attic room for his "experiments...”  THE BLACK RIDER (1954) Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer, Lionel Jeffries. This B-quickie has both sci-fi and horror elements.  Hanley is a fierce young reporter who tackles the story of a hooded black rider who is seen (on a motorcycle) near a crumbling castle on full moon nights.  Who is the rider and what is his strange purpose...

BLOODY PIT OF HORROR (1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mickey Hargitay, Walter Brandi, Louisa Baratto, Ralph Zucker, Rita Klein.  A photographer and his gorgeous models find a seemingly deserted castle for a photo-shoot.  However, it’s inhabited by a lunatic who traps the girls in the dungeon... TERROR CREATURES FROM THE GRAVE (1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Steele, Walter Brandi, Richard Garret, Marilyn Mitchell. A man is murdered by his wife and associates. He vows to return from the grave for revenge...

(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...

(1960-1970) Here's a bundle of FIVE chilling classics, all with a witchcraft theme to them—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  HORROR HOTEL (1960); BLACK SUNDAY (1960); BLOOD DEMON (1967); MARK OF THE DEVIL (1969); WITCH KILLER OF BLACKMOOR (1970)  See more...

(1931) Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Theodor Loos, Otto Wernicke.  This great two-disc set features the rare English-language UK edition, which includes additional footage actually shot in the UK and added to the film.  And yes…Lorre did dub his own voice for the English version.  Also included in this two-disc set is the original German language edition with brand new English subtitles...

(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...

(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 and fantasy double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is a fantasy masterpiece that has a touch of horror thrown in for good measure: “A likeness to Voices” by Mary Savage, who was the widow of mystery writer Brett Halliday.  Was it marital bliss—or black magic?  The second novel is by veteran science fiction author, Robert Moore Williams, who spins a wild sci-fi tale with “The Son of Death.” He was hunted by a relentless enemy...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “An Aerial Runaway” by W. P and C. P. chipman is the 48^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  It was an airship ride into a fantastic forgotten land...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The opening novel is renowned science fiction author Jack Williamson’s “The Angel from Hell.”  Was she an angel or a she-devil with wings?  The second novel is  Emmett McDowell’s “The Wandering Egos.”  This is a fascinating science fiction tale about the deepest core of the human brain...

(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...

(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...

(1942) Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Vera Frances, Googie Withers, Joyce Howard.  Dumped by his fiancée, Askey gets a job as far away from women as he can, taking a weather station post at a lonely lighthouse.  Landing on the island, he discovers...

(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...

(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...

(1947) Michael Medwin, Frank Hawkins, Winifred Melville, Jane Arden, Moyra O'Connell, Sid James.  A young British boy’s dad is convicted of murder and hanged.  The boy lands in a boarding school where he’s horribly bullied and ends up running away...

(1961) Peter Van Eyck, Marianne Koch, Eva Bartok, Claus Holm, Werner Peters.  Van Eyck is a prosecuting attorney who loses a murder case, although he’s certain the accused man was guilty of his wife’s murder.  Obsessed with the case, he follows up on his own and stumbles into a whole torrent of twists...

(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 classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is “Brainstorm” by one of the more underrated authors of the 1940s and 1950s, Rog Phillips.  Was there no end to the ceaseless stream of aggravation surging into Marvin Swank’s once peaceful life like a tormenting tidal wave of fury?  The second novel is  “The Defiant Agents” by beloved science fiction author Andre Norton.  It was called “Operation Cochise,” a carefully planned move to colonize a planet ahead of the Reds...

(1971) James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Horst Frank, Rada Rassimov.  Impressive later Wallace thriller with a couple of imported American actors.  Malden is a blind, retired journalist who overhears a cryptic conversation in front of a medical facility.  That night a company guard is slain...

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

(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...

(1933) Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí,  Carlos Orellana, Adriana Lamar, Alberto Marti.  A man drops dead on a lonely midnight street after hearing the wail of a ghost woman.  In a nearby mansion, tales are told of ancient curses that will bring death upon the family’s young son.  There is a black-hooded figure lurking about secret passageways, seemingly waiting to strike.  Soon the grandfather is found in the study, murdered, the sound of the wailing...

(1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Annie Alberti, Adriano Micantoni, Marco Mariani, Flora Carosello, Antonio Boccaci.  This is a good old monster in a castle tale.  A couple of young babes wander into a supposedly haunted castle.  No ghosts, but they are done in by a monster with a hideous face.  There's also a young girl haunted by...

(1962) Guy Williams, Don Burnett, Ilaria Occhini, Liana Orfei, Anroldo Foa.  Pythias (Burnett) is a high-ideal Athenian who comes to Syracuse to find Arcanos, an underground leader.  Damon (Williams) is the devil-may-care thief who agrees (for money) to find him for Pythias. Syracuse’s draconian ruler Dionysus (Foa) is determined to capture Pythias and Arcanos. The crisis comes when...

DEATH BY INVITATION—Anamorphic Widescreen Edition (1971) Shelby Leverington, Aaron Phillips, Norman Parker.  This film opens in olden times with a young woman being dragged into a grimy building and condemned as a witch.  She is later killed by the villagers.  Leverington plays both the witch from the past and a beautiful young gal from present day who is possessed by...

(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...

(1945, PRC) Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Tim Ryan, Edmund MacDonald.  Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.  A film noir classic. Neal plays a down on his luck musician who thumbs a ride that leads him into an unbelievable series of circumstances that finds him implicated in murder and crime...

(1941, PRC) Bela Lugosi, Dave O'Brien, Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher. Bela's giant bats are on the loose, attacking and killing everyone wearing a strange shaving lotion concocted by Bela himself...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and horror double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is P. F. Costello’s “The Devil Downstairs.” All hell was about to break loose.  Old Scratch, the Prince of Darkness, Lord of the Flies, Lucifer, Satan—THE DEVIL HIMSELF—was nothing like the red, pitchfork-baring imp of lore, but was a putrid beast of green whose small body was covered in gnarled hair.  The second novel is “Invaders from the Dark” by Weird Tales veteran Greye La Spina.  She had the attributes of horror itself:  devilish eyes that glittered like an unholy garnet in the dark...

(1946) Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Ledoux, Andrée Clément, Thérèse Dorny, Pierre Juvenet, Albert Rémy, Robert Seller.  This French crime-drama is simply brilliant.  Fresnay is an infamous criminal who escapes from a shootout with the police.  He’s picked up on the road by a self-made millionaire who’s returning home to his only living relative, an aunt, whom he hasn’t seen since he was a child.  The car crashes and...

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...

(1973, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Andrés Resino, Geneviève Robert, Dennis Price, Rosa Palomar, Howard Vernon.  A dying politician summons an attorney to his death bed to reveal that two imprisoned lovers, who were earlier convicted of murder, are actually...

(1969) John Carradine, Regina Torné, Miguel Ángel Álvarez, Guillermo Zetina, Andrés García.  The late Dr. Jekyll's daughter returns home to help out her guardian, who also happens to be a mad scientist (Carradine) searching for a formula for eternal youth...  

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...

(1977) Jeremy Clyde, David Robb, Ania Marson, John Justin, Esmond Knight, Jonathan Hyde.  Two wandering young men meet a strange, beautiful woman at a rustic European inn.  Her name is Dorabella.  One of the men (Clyde) falls in love with her to the point of total enchantment.  The two adventurers follow her from inn to inn, a wake of horror left in her path...

TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Caesar Burner, Lone Fleming, Joseph Thelman.  Members of a weird cult are blinded by crows and put to death for sacrificing women. SEVEN DEATHS IN THE CAT’S EYE (1972, Anamorphic) Jane Birkin, Hiram Kelly, Francoise Christophe, Anton Diffring.  A horrible beast is on the loose!  It slaughters people in a small, remote village in Scotland...

THE DEVIL’S AGENT (1961, Anamorphic) Peter Van Eyck, Christopher Lee, Macdonald Carey, Marianne Koch.   Former wartime Intel officer Van Eyck runs into his old pal, Lee, who takes him to his mansion for a fishing excursion. THE FACE OF THE FROG (1959, Anamorphic) Carl Lange, Joachim Fuchsberger, Siegfried Lowitz, Eddi Arent. An American detective becomes involved in a series of ghastly crimes. The only clue is the mysterious seal of the White Frog... 

BLOOD DEMON (1967, Anamorphic) Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Carl Lange.  Barker sentences Lee, the evil Count Regula, to death for slaying 12 virgins.  Many years later, Lee returns from the dead to claim revenge on Barker’s son. THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO (1968, Anamorphic) Gunther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch. Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls... 

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 BACCHANTES (1961, Anamorphic) Taina Elg, Pierre Brice, Alberto Lupo, Akim Tamiroff, Alessandra Panaro.  To ward off a drought, the king of Thebes plans the sacrifice a young virgin. But the god Dionysus intervenes, bringing Thebes a torrent of rain, sparing the girl’s life seconds before death.  SAMSON (1961, Anamorphic) Brad Harris, Walter Reeves, Mara Berni, Brigitte Corey, Alan Steel.  Samson attempts to restore a queen to her rightful throne... 

HIGH SCHOOL BIG SHOT (1959, Anamorphic) Tom Pittman, Virginia Aldridge, Malcom Atterbury, Howard Veidt. Gritty teenage crime drama about a smart, but geeky high school kid who makes the mistake of falling for a pretty face. ANATOMY OF A PSYCHO (1961, Anamorphic) Ronnie Burns, Darrell Howe, Judy Howard, Russ Bender. A juvenile delinquent swears revenge on all those who helped send his wacko brother to the gas chamber... 

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 large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Veteran crime novelist Milton K. Ozaki tells a powerful tale of deception and murder in “The Dummy Murder Case.” It was a mock murder that led to...

(1976) Elizabeth Sellars, Anthony Bate, Colin Bell, Norman Mitchell, written by Nigel Kneale.  A well-made, gritty killer rats chiller!  A suburban couple hears scurryings underneath their floorboards. The wife thinks its rats; the husband scoffs at the idea. Soon the radio reports that instances of a massive...

(1972) Sonia Graham, Patricia Maynard, Edmund Pegge, Vikki Chambers, Steven Jones.  This two-disc set features all six episodes of the classic fantasy-horror mini-series.  A young girl is stuck in her home due to an illness. To pass the time she draws pictures that, amazingly, come to life...

(1939) Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor, Robert Adair, Harry Terry. If you've never seen a Slaughter film before, this is the one to start with. There's a monster, a mad killer, and a crazed scientist experimenting with the reanimation of the dead.  The victims often see the face of a misshapen monster leering in their windows, momments before they...

(1961) Ed Dugan, G.J. Mitchell, Louis Gartner, Don Alderetter, Madeline Frances, Wes Carlson.  A teenage boy drives off from a diner and witnesses a car-to-car shooting in which a gangster is badly wounded, his car crashing into a ditch...

(1947) Marcel Herrand, Simone Signoret, Alexandre Rignault, Paul Amiot, André Le Gall, Yves Deniaud,   A big thumbs up for this great film!  It’s filled with a ton of cool stuff—death rays, mad scientists, cool lab scenes, creepy underground catacombs, mysterious mansions, and more.  Fantomas, long thought to be dead, returns to terrorize Paris, demanding a...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is a grim yet engrossing tale of the madness of future war, “The Final War” by Carl W. Pohr.  It would be the war to end all wars!  The second novel is veteran sci-fi author Rog Phillip’s wonderful tale, “Matrix.”  Craig Brown had been told his friend Ned Brooke had died. Charlie, Ned’s guide, had seen his death with his own eyes...

 (1927) Russell Simpson, Charles Mack, Patsy Ruth Miller, Barney Oldfield.  We offer both a newly tinted version of this film along with the original B&W version.  Both editions are gorgeous.  Simpson plays a longtime horse trainer and racer, well known for his pro-horse standing in the community.  When the first automobiles come out, his son (Mack) finds himself torn...

Armchair Fiction is proud to offer beautiful paperback editions of the first four books in the classic Ted Scott Flying Stories series: “First Stop Honolulu” has Ted Scott on the trail of more flying records as well as the trail of a cold-blooded killer...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Dagmar Lassander, Pier Paolo Capponi, Simón Andreu, Osvaldo Genazzani, Nieves Navarro.  Lassander plays the wife of a struggling businessman whose finances are at the breaking point.  She soon finds herself the blackmail victim...

(1933) Barbara Bedford, Maurice Murphy, Robert Frazer, Edwin Cross, Ernie Adams, Henry Hall.  A youngster is taken deep into the steamy Mexican jungle by his mother (and her butler) to avoid losing custody to the underhanded father...

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(1933) Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardewicke, Anthony Bushell, Ernest Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson, Ralph Richardson. A true horror masterpiece of the ‘30s. Karloff is a dead Egyptologist who returns from the grave to seek revenge on those who defiled his tomb...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Gordon Mitchell, Bella Cortez, Roldano Lupi, Marietto.  A beautiful upgrade of this great peplum sci-fi film.  A scientific supercity is the setting for weird experiments, torture, and intrigue. Mitchell is a warrior who enters the legendary city of Atlantis...

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Armchair fiction presents Roy Norton's "The Glyphs," our 29th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Hoping to find the truth about a hidden metropolis with rare glyphs (records carved on stone by a lost people), a band of daring adventurers, comprised of a scientific thief, a chiseled big game hunter, and a well-off “out-of-doors” man, travel halfway round the world to a savage jungle within the heart of South America...

(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...

HERE’S FLASH CASEY (1938); Eric Linden NAVY SPY (1937); Conrad Nagel HELD FOR RANSOM (1938); THE LONG SHOT (1939) Marsha Hunt.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1968 Anamorphic Widescreen) Kitty Swan, Micaela Pignatelli, Angelo Infanti, Jeff Tangen.  In this lively jungle opus, an expedition sponsored by a wealthy English family heads deep into the wilds.  Their goal?  To find a lost heiress whose plane cracked up in the jungle many years before...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kitty Swan, Linda Veras, Poldo Bendandi, Archie Savage, Conrad Loth.  A crafty soldier of fortune, along with his duplicitous companion, head into the jungle wilds to seek out a highly revered diamond necklace...

(1953) Frank Lovejoy, Edmund O'Brien, William Talman, Jose Torvay.  This is truly one of the most gripping film noir classics you'll ever see. The plot concerns two vacationing businessmen who are held captive by a psychopath. The hitch-hiking killer puts his companions through sheer hell as they roll through the lonely highways of Mexico...  

(1971, Anamorphic Widescreen) Wal Davis, Barta Barri, Anastasio Campoy, Susan Carvasal, Victor Davis.  In spite of its rather lurid title, this is really a pretty good movie, similar in some ways to The Night Stalker and The Night Strangler.  A horrible series of killings, committed over a period of seven days, has been happening once every 28 years since the 1800s.  A baron-turned-vampire is...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The House on the Cliff,” Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves looking into the mysterious goings-on in and around an old, supposedly “haunted” house, rooted on a high cliff above the ocean. However, what they discover there are more than just...

(1939) Bela Lugosi, Greta Gynt, Hugh Williams, Wilfred Walter, Edmon Ryan. One of the best shockers of the '30's.  Dr. Orloff, gleefully murders people and throws them into the Thames mud flats—all so he can claim their life insurance...

(1957 aka THE DEVIL'S COMMANDMENT) Gianna Maria Canale, Carlo D'Angelo, Dario Michaelis, Wandisa Guida, Angelo Galassi, Paul Muller.  This Special 2-Disc Edition gives you both the Anamorphic Italian version (with English subtitles), as well as the Anamorphic American version in English.  A classic Italian horror film about a mad scientist who captures young women and drains their blood, thereby helping to rejuvenate an aging, evil duchess...

(1927) Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Moisha Yudelson.  Although largely a silent film, this cinema classic went down in history as the first talking feature film, with numerous scenes shot in sound, primarily those with Jolson singing (the silent sections were accompanied by a Vitaphone music score).  Al plays a young Jewish kid, raised by a strict...

(1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm, Sabine Bethmann.  As far as we know, Fritz Lang’s Journey to the Lost City has not been seen in an anamorphic format since its Colorscope release by AIP in 1960...

(1953) John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam. Terrific film noir about an ex-con who's nailed for an armored car robbery he didn't commit. He sets out to find the mastermind of the crime...

(1967) Yildirim Gencer, Suzan Avci, Reha Yurdakul, Devlet Devrim, Cahit Irgat.  That marvelous costumed Turkish superhero Kilink finds himself thrown in the middle of hostilities between two criminal mobs, both of which are vying for precious microfilm showing the location of government missile sites...

(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...

 (1927) Tom Mix, Carmelita Geraghty, William Davidson, Lee Shumway.  Tom plays a tough cowboy trying to figure out who’s responsible for a daring series of stagecoach robberies.  The stagecoach race sequence is definitely the film’s major highlight...

(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...

(1975) Liv Ullmann, Michel Piccoli, Ornella Muti, Antonio Ferrandis., Ullmann plays Leonor, a beautiful woman who dies at the beginning of the film.  Upon her death her widower (Piccoli) instantly remarries—literally on the same day.  But ten years and two sons later, Piccoli still yearns for his dead first wife.  He’s eventually shown a way (at heavy cost) to bring her back from the dead...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Renown 20th Century mystery writer Octavus Roy Cohen spins a real web of suspense with his tale called “Lost Lady. In Hollywood anything could happen.  Working the Hollywood night watch was a good gig for Sergeant Danny O'Leary—that was until...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Our author is former Watergate mastermind and suspected JFK assassination conspirator E. Howard Hunt, who’s at his very best in one of the mystery and intrigue novels that he was also famous for, “Lovers are Losers.” It’s a nail-biting tale about a...

THE WORLD GONE MAD (1933) Pat O’Brien SING SINNER SING (1933) Paul Lukas THE SIN OF NORA MORAN (1933) Zita Johann NIGHT ALARM (1934) Bruce Cabot, Judith Allen.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1930) Jean Hersholt, Eleanor Boardman, Ralph Forbes, Claude Fleming, Will Stanton. Although a nice restored version of this film came out on Blu-ray recently, we have done further restoration to the color, which we feel improves the overall viewing experience.  The setting is a German-controlled settlement in East Africa in the early 20^th Century.  Hersholt plays a nefarious businessman trying to...

(1953) Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier, Rhys Williams.  The setting is London in the late 1880s.  The monstrous killer, Jack the Ripper, is on the prowl, killing women left and right.  Palance is the mysterious stranger who rents the gloomy attic room of a Victorian house run by Frances (Aunt Bee) Bavier.  He needs the reclusivity of the room for his "experiments."  Every time there is a new Ripper killing, Bavier begins to suspect...

(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...