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CLICK HERE to find out more about Sinister Cinema's ENORMOUS Comic Book Collection (Ignore invalid price below, call for individual prices).  Sinister Cinema owner Greg Luce has decided to sell his entire collection, spanning back more than 60 years...

(1960-1963) Here's a bundle of FIVE chilling Edgar Wallace classics, all filled with monstrous madmen and sinister characters—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  DOOR WITH THE SEVEN LOCKS (1962); THE TERRIBLE PEOPLE (1960); THE STRANGLER OF BLACKMOOR CASTLE (1963); THE BLACK ABBOT (1963); and THE AVENGER (1960)  See more...

(1957-1971) Here's a bundle of FIVE rock 'em sock 'em monster brawl classics, all filled with monstrous boogeymen and sinister fiends—and all for just $42 postpaid!  You get:  ASSIGNMENT TERROR (1969); GAMERA VS. THE DEVIL BEAST GUIRON (1969); THE INVISIBLE MAN VS. THE HUMAN FLY (1957); WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMAN (1970); and HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE (1973)  See more...

 (1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Leonora Ruffo, Mario Novelli, Roland Lesaffre, Kirk Morris, Gordon Mitchell. A beautiful upgrade from our previous master and much, much better than the 1:33 versions that are around.  Aliens from the planet Hydra land on Earth and kidnap a group of humans...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Pino Colizzi, Lauren Madison, Paul Janning, Annie Stuart, Lauren Madison, Sergio Rossi.   What a cool little Euro-chiller this turned out to be!  Members of a criminal organization are camped out in a gloomy, forlorn old mansion in the middle of a creepy forest...

(1964) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Fernando Rey, Gloria Paul, George Hilton, Dakar, Rosalba Neri.  Those wacky Italians are at it again, this time against the evil Goldginger, who plans world domination by brainwashing important world leaders and starting a war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.  Photographers Franco and Ciccio stumble into this accidentally and are kidnapped...

AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1973, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee. From Amicus’ peak production period, ‘The Studio That Dripped Blood’ adapted the gothic horror novel Fengriffen into an insane 18th Century saga of heaving bosoms, graphic dismemberment, and supernatural...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Vija Artmane, Sergey Stolyarov, Nikolai Kryukov, Tatyana Voloshina, Lado Tskhvariashvili.  We’re offering this Russian classic with subtitles that finally make sense.  A spaceship is pulled into orbit around a dark “iron star,” whose gravitational pull is so great that the ship won’t have enough fuel to break free from its grip.  Instead, they land on a nearby planet where they find...

1943, Monogram) Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, Louise Currie, Henry Hall, Minerva Urecal.  During a series of weird experiments, Bela transforms into an ape man!  He needs spinal fluid to return to normal.  Bela uses a killer ape to stalk his victims.  SPECIAL NOTE FROM GREG LUCE, OWNER OF SINISTER CINEMA:  Looking back, Sinister Cinema has had this title out literally for decades....

(1960) Heinz Drache, Ingrid van Bergen, Benno Sterzenbach, Ina Duscha, Ludwig Linkmann, Klaus Kinski.  Drache, who is an agent from the “Special Branch” is assigned the job of finding and catching “The Executioner,” a monstrous killer who lops the heads off his victims, then packages them up and leaves them strewn about the English countryside for unsuspecting citizens to discover...

(1970, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mikhail Pugovkin, Tatyana Klyuyeva, Georgiy Millyar, Anatoliy Kubatskiy, Lidiya Korolyova.  A magical underworld king demands that the Czar give up his only son upon his 18^th birthday.  The Czar attempts to fool the king with some tomfoolery involving identity-switching between his son and a “commoner.”  Complications arise when the daughter of the king...

(1961) Tor Johnson, Douglas Meller, Barbara Francis, Bing Stafford, Tony Cardoza, Conrad Brooks; written and directed by Coleman Francis.  One of the best "bad" movies of all time, now in its original 1.85 widescreen format for the first time. Tor is a Russian scientist caught in a nuclear blast while running from spies. The radiation transforms him...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first tale in this great double novel is “The Big Fix” by whodunit veteran Mel Colton. It’s a tale about desperate guys and double-crossing dolls. There was a big payoff due—$100,000 for a crooked racing fix that only Blair Savage could collect, because the bet had been made in his name... The second tale in this double novel is Nelson S. Bond’s thundering thriller, “Death Holds the Stirrups.” Thundering down the racetrack at a breakneck speed, fresh out of apprenticeship, jockey Jerry McGhee thought he was winning his race; but as he booted the horse forward, and with the finish line in sight, his filly suddenly reared up, sending him falling not only to the ground but into a whole heap of trouble...

(1930) Dorothy Boyd, Nigel Bruce, Audrey Carten, David Hawthorne, Frank Lawton.  This early British talkie, while a bit stiff, features a great cast, with Smith turning in an especially fine performance.  A murder occurs mid-way into the film, but it’s a mystery to the folks on screen...

(1929) Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.  A pretty girl goes on a date with a young male artist.  When he gets her to his apartment he tries to rape her.  She kills him in self-defense...  Bonus Feature: THE FLYING SCOTSMAN (1929) Moore Marriott, Pauline Johnson, Ray Milland.  Milland (who was only 21 at the time) plays a fireman stoking the flames on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh...

THE BLOOD DRINKERS—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1964) Ronald Remy, Amalia Fuentes, Eddie Fernandez, Eva Montes, Celia Rodriguez.  Five years after TERROR IS A MAN became the first international horror hit from the Philippines, producer Cirio Santiago and director Gerry de Leon (BRIDES OF BLOOD) delivered Hemisphere’s next landmark shocker, THE BLOOD DRINKERS, with...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “Blood on the Moon” by pulp magazine veteran Dwight V. Swain starts of this thrilling double novel. From the outside the Hideaway Club was exactly like one would expect: a sleazy joint full of crooks, criminals, and con artists. The neon lights and cheap décor tried to hide its seedy underbelly... Dwight V. Swain is back again for the second novel, “Murder for Madame.” When a married man still makes passes at the ladies, any trouble that develops should be both expected and deserved...

BRAIN OF BLOOD—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1971) Kent Taylor, Grant Williams, Regina Carrol, John Bloom, Reed Hadley, Angelo Rossitto, Zandor Vorkov. By 1971, drive-ins across America were clamoring for a new BLOOD ISLAND movie. But Hemisphere instead turned to writer/producer/distributor Sam Sherman (SATAN’S SADISTS) and director Al Adamson (BLOOD OF DRACULA’S CASTLE) to deliver a comparable saga of gruesome... 

(1929, Goldwyn) Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Joan Bennett.  This is an amazing early talkie; it looks and plays much more like a late ‘30s film than something from 1929.  WW1 vet Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond longs for excitement after returning to a boring post-war existence. His wish is granted when a young woman enlists his aid in freeing her uncle from a suspicious nursing home...

(1935) Jack Hulbert, Fay Wray, Ralph Richardson, Claude Hulbert, Gibb McLaughlin, Atholl Fleming.  Master sleuth Bulldog Drummond pulls into a gas station where his car is sabotaged by crooks.  Minutes later he crashes into Hulbert’s vehicle.  In the hospital, the injured Drummond asks Hulbert to temporarily masquerade as him...

(1929) William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks, Charles Lane, Lawrence Grant, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Eugene Pallette, Ned Sparks. As early talkies go, this is a pretty good whodunit, with gorgeous silent star Brooks as a shrewd nightclub singer known as “the Canary.”  She has a bad habit of blackmailing her acquaintances...

CASTLE OF BLOOD—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Barbara Steele, George Riviere, Margrete Robsahm, Arturo Dominici, Silvano Tranquilli. A Euro-horror classic about a writer who accepts a bet that he'll be alive in the morning after spending the night in a haunted castle. Top notch, supernatural horror as Barbara portrays a tortured...

(1968) Sevda Ferdag, Irfan Atasoy, Yildirim Gencer, Suzan Avci.  Oh joy…another Turkish comic book superhero movie!  Featured here is “Spy Smasher,” who looks kind of like “the Phantom” or one of those other old Marvel or DC heroes.  As you would expect in a grade-Z delight like this, there’s a plethora of action:  fist fights, gun battles, chases, etc.  It’s all REALLY schlocky...

(1929, Paramount) Wallace Beery, Warner Oland, Florence Vidor, Jack Oakie, Jack McHugh, Directed by William Wellman.  After witnessing a Chinatown murder, Vidor, a pretty socialite, gets a sudden crush on a Chinatown gang leader, played by Beery...

(1951) Jôji Oka, Sumiko Hidaka, Chieko Seki, Tatsuo Saitô, Ryôsuke Kagawa, Shirô Kanemitsu, Toshiaki Konoe.  This is a really obscure Japanese horror movie—and most enjoyable, especially the second half of the film.  Claws of Iron (AKA Tetsu no Tsume) is a fine supernatural chiller about a WW2 vet whose blood is contaminated by the blood of a strange ape-like creature...

(1963, Uncut Anamorphic Widescreen) Lucy Kelly, Annabelle Lee, George Edgely, Max Anderson.  One of our favorite exploitation films.  A busty sex kitten makes her move on her old Uncle Shug, who showers her with money in return for “favors.”  There’s just one hitch...

(1943) Willy Castello, Lloyd Ingraham, Lona Andre, Betty Compson.  This is one of those lovable “crime doesn’t pay” exploitation films, with convicted and about-to-be-executed criminal Castello (Lucky Lombardo) telling the sordid tales of his past...

CURSE OF THE VAMPIRES—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1966) Amalia Fuentes, Romeo Vasquez, Eddie Garcia, Johnny Monteiro.  In this pseudo-sequel to his masterpiece THE BLOOD DRINKERS, director Gerry de Leon (TERROR IS A MAN, BRIDES OF BLOOD) delves even deeper into themes of lust, guilt, faith and redemption within an aristocratic family cursed by vampirism. But this time, he adds rich gothic dollops of torture, incest, carnal...

(1954) Eddie Constantine, Nadia Gray, Dominique Wilms, Robert Berri.  Eddie, as Lemmy Caution, hooks up with a fellow agent at a night club to exchange info about a beautiful babe the FBI has been watching.  Later, he finds the other agent murdered...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first tale in this great double novel is “Dangerous to Know” by whodunit regular James P. Duff. Frank Heggen’s involvement in the whole deadly mix-up began harmlessly enough with a very simple automobile collision. But that little scrape changed from a ho-hum incident to a ripening case of murder with amazing speed… The second fine tale in this doubl novel is Steve Ward’s sultry thriller, “Odds Against Linda.” When Peter Conrad brought his beautiful new bride back to San Francisco, he found a most unusual reception committee waiting patiently for him. It consisted of two roughneck characters along with the long, gray, metallic gun barrels...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Karen Baal, Dieter Borsche, Wolfgang Lukschy, Eddi Arent, Ady Berber, Anneli Sauli, Klaus Kinski.  This special 2-disc edition gives you both the English language American release version, as well as the original German language edition with English subtitles.  Wealthy men, whose lives are all heavily insured, are being bumped off one by one, their bodies being dropped into the Thames...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel kicks off with a terrific Milton Ozaki tale, “The Deadly Lover.” She was just too beautiful to die! But die she did—the victim of a ruthless killer who struck by night. A killer smart enough to lure the lovely young girl to a lonely park, smart enough to strangle the life from her shapely body, smart enough to leave no traces... The second tale in this double novel is a great thriller by Robert Moore Williams, “Murder is so Final.” In the early hours of the morning, as the traffic began to pile up and humidity increased, the male citizens of St. Louis performed their usual routines. They dressed, showered and shaved, made breakfast and coffee, read the paper, and if they were lucky, kissed the Missus’ goodbye...

(1955) Eddie Constantine, Maria Frau, François Perrot, R.J. Chauffard, Roger Hanin, Luisa Rivelli, Nadine Tallier, Florence Landon.  This elusive Lemmy Caution intrigue thriller is now available with English subtitles.  Lemmy (Eddie) infiltrates a gang of crooks that has kidnapped a scientist who has plans for a revolutionary device that can manufacture diamonds...

(1934) Georg Alexander, Camilla Horn, Gerda Maurus, Theo Lingen, Fritz Odemar, Jakob Tietke.  We never thought we’d refer to an Edgar Wallace film as being “delightful,” but this one most assuredly is.  Yet it’s got all the usual Wallace crime trappings with sinister characters and plot twists.  Camilla Horn, as Jenny, heads to London to meet (and hopefully marry) her cousin Harry (Georg Alexander), who is also the financial adviser overseeing her fortune...

(1929) Ramon Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, Bud Geary, Roscoe Carnes. For an early sound/silent film, this is really a pretty good movie; in fact it’s a lot of fun.  Six pals go through the Naval Academy to earn their pilot's wings. One by one, the group is whittled down to just two...

 (1910-1928) Augustus Phillips, Charles Ogle, Mary Fuller; Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter.  Edison’s 1910 Frankenstein was the first filmed version of the famed Mary Shelley story and we present it with a vintage orchestral music score for the very first time... In West of Zanzibar, Chaney is superb as the twisted magician who seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him...

(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...

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(1952) Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor, John Blythe, Thora Hird, John Horseley.  Walsh is a college lad who shatters his father’s dreams when he is basically expelled from Oxford University for being a bit of an upstart...

 (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Spencer Teakle, Felicity Young, Martin Benson, Hugh Latimer, Dorinda Stevens, Dawn Brooks.  A couple of burglars (one old, one young) crack the safe in a jewelry shop, but just as they’re making their getaway they’re attacked by rival gangsters.  The young one manages to escape...

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(1920) Pat O’Malley, Bull Montana, Agnes Ayres, Wesley Barry, Noah Beery, J. Barney Sherry.  A forgotten silent horror-science fiction gem resurfaces!  O’Malley is a green reporter who is caught in the middle of a plot to sabotage his newspaper.  Who is the traitor...

(1954, Anamorphic Widescreen) Robert Urquhart, John Bentley, Susan Stephen, Alan Tarlton, Howarth Wood, Morea Soutter.  Two brothers lead settlers into perilous jungle country.  Their primary purpose is to find an ancient elephant lair, which—hopefully—will be rich with ivory...

(1929) William Powell, Florence Eldridge, Ullrich Haupt, Jean Arthur; Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young. Here are two solid Philo Vance mysteries for your enjoyment. Disc one:  The Greene Murder Case features a wealthy but disreputable family gathering for its once a year get-together at their spooky ancestral castle... Disc two: In The Bishop Murder Case, the corpse of a man called "Cock Robin" turns up on an archery range with an arrow through his heart...

(1952) John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, John Robinson, Valentine Dyall, Lockwood West.  Bentley is the Toff, a “Saint” style detective who falls upon a sinister plot while on a train.  It seems that a criminal known as “the Hammer” is looking to steal a secret formula for a new lightweight metal alloy that’s tougher than steel...

(1971) Eddie Constantine, Katrin Schaake, Uschi Obermaier, Rainer Langhans, Hannes Fuchs.  One of the more unique sci-fi films we’ve come across in a long time.  Now with English subtitles.  A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript, containing information dealing with a possible formula for immortality...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Kevin Scott, Jennifer Laird, Alan Wylie, Barbara Ward, John Burke.   Laird plays a delivery girl who stops by a sleaze-photographer’s office in the middle of one of his nudie sessions...

(1949) Regina Linnanheimo, William Markus, Åke Lindman, Annie Mörk, Rauha Rentola, Heikki Savolainen.  This is a terrific Finnish action-drama film about two brothers: the eldest serious and dull, the youngest wild and full of life.  Their family is ruled with an iron hand by their aging, petulant mother.  Both men fall for the same girl.  When the youngest is framed for murder...

(1974, Anamorphic Widescreen) Bill Greer, Deedy Peters, Lynne Marta, Jim Dean, Tony Reese, Dorothy Green. What we’ve got here is a good old-fashioned, American-made drive-in horror schlockfest that undoubtedly would have made guys chuckle with delight as their girlfriends squirmed in their car seats. The opening scene has a couple of teenage lovers making out in their car when suddenly…a monster pops up...

(1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Ian Carmichael, Curt Jürgens, Janet Munro, George Pravda, Kieron Moore, Hugh Griffith.  Carmichael plays a rather naive Cambridge astrophysicist who visits an old Russian pal (a former chess champion) who’s playing exhibition matches against many different players at once.  After the games, the Russian accidentally(?) leaves his chess box with Carmichael, who finds...

(1929, Paramount) Claudette Colbert, Edward G. Robinson, David Newell, Donald Meek, Alan Brooks, Nellie Savage.  Robinson leads a group of con artists who use a phony lady psychic to scam wealthy but gullible socialites...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor, Frank Latimore, Hans Nielsen, Renate Ewert, Gisela Uhlen, Claus Biederstaedt, Ady Berber.  Newspaper reporter Fuchsberger arrives at work moments before a man named Kovacs is ushered into his office.  When he enters the room, Kovacs is dead—murdered...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “The House of Murders” by longtime mystery pulp magazine veteran D. L. Champion is the first story in this double novel. The Thorpe family was one of the most respectable and wealthy families in all of New York. But behind a seven-foot fence (and the pack of killer hounds that encircled it) lay the ancient house... This double novel’s second tale is a fast-moving thriller by Lawrence G. Blochmann. His novel, “Pursuit,” is about Timothy Shawn, the head of the great Shawn Detective Agency, who dangled the biggest piece of change before the sleepy eyes of Edward T. Mitchell that the former All American halfback had ever seen...

(1930, 1940) Sir Hubert Winstead, Charles Gemora, Arthur Clayton; Zack Williams, Laura Bowman, Alfred Grant, Spencer Williams.  Disc one features INGAGI, a notorious docu-drama of Forgotten Horrors fame.  An expedition enters the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe...  Disc two features SON OF INGAGI, which is a sequel in name only.  It’s a full-blooded horror film about a lady mad scientist and her killer ape-man

 (1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Heinz Drache, Ingmar Zeisberg, Paul Klinger, Judith Dornys, Friedrich Joloff.  The utterly imposing Dartmoor prison is surrounded on all sides by perilous swamps.  Yet a dozen prisoners have escaped in recent years—none of whom have ever been seen again...

(1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Eddie Constantine, Perrette Pradier, Daniel Emilfork, Clément Harari, Jean Galland, Daphné Dayle, Sophie Hardy.  Eddie is once again an FBI agent, this time searching for an escaped (but wounded) criminal mastermind named Gregori, who has pulled off a massive diamond heist...

(1937) Allouard Carny, Henri de la Falaise.  This film was previously thought to be lost and it’s technically (unless you count Chaplin’s Modern Times) the last silent film released in the U.S.  At one time this was thought to have been made as a documentary, but it’s not.  It’s a feature film with a full storyline.  A white adventurer returns to a French outpost deep in the jungles of Indo China...

(1959, Anamorphic Edition) Massimo Serato, Irène Tunc, Luisella Boni, Luciano Marin, Pierre Cressoy.  Riding into danger is a masked vigilante called the Dark Knight.  His advisory is a cruel ruler (played by longtime sword and sandal veteran Serato) who has seized and imprisoned the peaceful ruler of nearby region...

(1942, Warners) Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox, Jackie Gleason, Roland Drew.  Emerson is a struggling actress who’s almost broke and desperately needs money.  So she agrees to help three crooks in their bank robbery scheme...

(1934) Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, Hugh Wakefield. Walls is a wealthy Englishman who flies to a foreign country to recoup some stolen loot from a young troublemaker.  He lands smack dab in the middle of a revolution...

(1962) Nils Asther, Anita Björk, Jan Malmsjö, Karl-Arne Homsten, Sif Ruud, Lena Granhagen.  What a great, forgotten chiller!  The setting is a creepy country manor.  After being practically disowned by her late stepfather during the reading of his will, a young woman wades into a misty swamp and sinks down into the slime—suicide.  Her brother, also disinherited, returns to the manor, which is now occupied by...

(1969) George Cole, Peter Halliday, June Barry, Lillias Walker, Stanley Meadows.  In the future an incredible system has been created that allows a person to die, but pass his soul onto someone else, thus enabling one to potentially live forever...

(1968 Anamorphic Widescreen) Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman, Robert Hoffman, Michael Dunn, Lang Jeffries, directed by Robert Siodmak.  Disc One: Kampf um Rom I. It’s not long after the fall of the Western Roman Empire (early 500s AD).  One of the last Roman leaders, Cethegus (Harvey), makes a bid to return Rome to its former greatness.Disc Two: Kampf um Rom II, Der Verrat: Cethegus gets a war started between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantine Empire...

(1965) Anthony Bate, Keith Buckley, Michele Dotrice, David Collings, Tom Criddle.  This remarkable, futuristic made-for-TV sci-fi film takes place in a massive nuclear bunker, built to protect government brass from nuclear war. The bunker has many levels, but Level Seven is the deepest and provides the best protection...

(1948) Heinz Rühmann, Anneliese Römer, Hans Cossy, Hilde Hildebrand.  A humanoid alien from a distant solar system travels the universe using mental concentration, which is shattered, though, when passing Earth. Landing below, he is immediately targeted by the police...

(1975, Anamorphic Widescreen) Michel Lemoine, Nathalie Zeiger, Howard Vernon, Joëlle Coeur, Martine Azencott.  This is a sequel to The Most Dangerous Game.  Lemoine plays the descendant of the original Count Zaroff (played in 1933 by Leslie Banks).  This Zaroff is far more sadistic than his aristocratic relative...

MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1969, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Ashley, Angelique Pettyjohn, Ronald Remy, Alicia Alonzo, Ronaldo Valdez.   In perhaps the most infamous film in the BLOOD ISLAND franchise, co-directors Eddie Romero and Gerry de Leon upped the already over-the-top nudity, violence, schlocky monster havoc and unmatched...

(1965) Eddie Constantine, Nelly Benedetti, Daniel Ceccaldi, Laura Valenzuela, Luis Dávila.  Eddie’s back with another tongue-in-cheek spy film.  This time he’s a tough (and ultra-cool) American agent who’s on his way to Madrid to extricate a scientist who has fallen into the hands of enemy agents...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “The Maracot Deep” by Arthur Conan Coyle is the 60th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, coming complete with over two dozen original illustrations and graphics. It was a trip into the unknown they would never forget...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 17” features the works of one of the best science fiction authors of all time, the wonderful Edmond Hamilton.  He was the absolute master of interstellar thrills and many other sub-genres of science fiction.  Hamilton has long been popular with Armchair Fiction readers...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 18” spotlights one of pulpdom’s favorite science fiction authors, Don Wilcox.  He was sometimes known as Raymond A. Palmer’s right hand man.  We can’t help but think that Don Wilcox was a huge fan of old horror films and science fiction movie serials.  His stories just reek of it.  They’re filled with...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 19” features the sensational stories of an unjustly neglected and highly underrated science fiction author, David Wright O’Brien.  O’Brien (1918-1944) had a deep love of writing, so much so that he continued his passion even after enlisting in the Air Force during World War II.  Sadly, he died in a bombing raid over Berlin at the age of twenty-six.  This volume contains many of his best stories...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Jan Ekström, Per Wahlöö, Arne Mattsson (also directed), Elsa Prawitz, Erik Hell..  A crusty old millionaire, who acts like a total tyrant, is despised and hated by everyone close to him.  This eventually leads to some terrifying moments of murder and mayhem in a spooky old mansion...

(1941) Mantan Moreland, F. E. Miller, Maceo B. Sheffield, Marguerite Whitten.  This obscure horror-comedy is great fun and Moreland has some great bits.  Mantan inherits a hotel, but upon arrival discovers he’s on the hook for a huge mortgage payment, which, if not paid off, will cause him to lose the hotel.  However, hidden somewhere in the hotel is a cache of loot...

(1929) Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur, O. P. Heggie, William Austin.  During the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and child are killed by foreigners. Enraged, he vows to take his revenge...

(1929) Lionel Barrymore, Jacqueline Gadsdon, Lloyd Hughes, Montagu Love, Harry Cribbon.  This wonderful 2-disc edition includes both a color edition as well as the more common B&W edition of this classic film.  Loosely based on Verne’s famous novel, Barrymore plays Count Dakkar, a scientist and leader of a scientific colony on a remote volcanic island...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Mystery of Cabin Island,” Frank and Joe Hardy head out to spend some time in a cabin on a remote island near their hometown of Bayport. Little do they know that other furtive characters are out to cause them trouble...

(1956) Ivan Pereverzev, Konstantin Bartashevich, Mikhail Astangov, Apollon Yachnitskiy, Danuta Stolyarskaya. An underwater explosion at the bottom of the Pacific wreaks havoc with underwater eco-systems.  The likely cause appears to be radiation and a new element.  Scientists head to the ocean depths to figure out what’s going on...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) José Antonio Amor, Daniela Giordano, Nuria Torray, Teresa Gimpera, Osvaldo Genazzani.  A handsome young widower remarries.  With his new wife in tow, he returns to his aging family castle.  Inside its mysterious walls, the widower’s first wife died under weird circumstances...

 (1956, aka Cloak without Dagger) Philip Friend, Mary Mackenzie, Leslie Dwyer, Allan Cuthbertson, John Heller, Chin Yu, Bill Nagy.  Pretty Mary Mackenzie (who died just ten years later) is a fashion reporter who stumbles upon a murder.  In a manner very worthy of an older Nancy Drew...

(1936 & 1932) Here are two 1930s horror oddities for the price of one, dressed up like a drive-in double feature, complete with an old time intermission clock.  OUANGA (1936) Fredi Washington, Philip Brandon, Marie Paxton, Sheldon Leonard.  This setting is zombie-infested Haiti...

(1982) Buster Larsen, Jørgen Kiil, Agneta Ekmanner, Peter Steen.  An older guy has an affair his new wife's daughter. The daughter, as you would expect in a Giallo-style chiller, ends of dead.  A mortuary worker (who underhandedly sells used coffins and pries rings off the fingers of corpses) figures out what’s going on and begins a blackmail...

(1953) Eddie Constantine, Dominique Wilms, Howard Vernon, Dario Moreno, Maurice Ronet.  Eddie plays tough-guy undercover agent Lemmy Caution, who ends up in exotic Casablanca attempting to track down two million in missing loot...

(1936) Tom Walls, Ralph Lynne, Robertson Hare, Diana Churchill, Gordon James, Marita Hunt.  Here’s a comedy-laced old dark house thriller that few horror film fans know about.  Walls is a retired police inspector who tracks a gang of art thieves to a sinister old abbey that’s surrounded by high stone walls and from which the gang operates without the owner’s knowledge...

(1959) Ewald Balser, Wolfgang Preiss, Barbara Rütting, Cornell Borchers, Wolfgang Kieling, Karin Baal.  Balser is a mad scientist conducting weird transplant experiments in the lab at his secluded chateau.  Preiss is the doctor he lures into helping him, not knowing that the cadavers used in the procedures are...

(1970) Lawrence Montaigne, Jo Anne Meredith, Elizabeth Plumb, Frank Cuva, John Vincent.  Women are being bumped off by a mad killer who wears a nylon over his distorted face, while strangling them with the other nylon.  The killer’s psychiatrist, who’s cheating on his wife, decides to use hypnosis to induce the killer to get rid of his wife for him...

(1934) Leslie Banks, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Alfred Drayton.  Banks has a grand time as the top designer in a British shipyard.  Unfortunately, the yard has run into a slew of downturns and is in big financial trouble.  But Banks has a new ship in mind...

(1966, Anamorphic Widescreen) Lon Chaney, John Carradine, Rochelle Hudson, Roger Gentry, Vic McGee.  If you’ve ever seen this film, you know how wonderfully awful it is.  It’s kind of a bottom-of-the-barrel imitation of Twice Told Tales or Tales of Terror—it’s got the same overall look and feel (they even borrow footage from several Corman Poe films). There are five different macabre tales...

(1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karl-Arne Holmsten, Annalisa Ericson, Gunnel Broström, Bengt Brunskog, Nils Hallberg, Gio Petré, Björn Bjelfvenstam, Mona Malm.  Rider in Blue is part of a series of five detective thrillers directed by the incomparable Arne Mattsson and featuring Holmsten as detective John Hillman.  The plot here is pretty straightforward, while Hillman is tackling an assignment in London, his wife (Ericson) visits an Army riding school...

(1963) Aram Katcher, Lisa McDonald, Brad Trumbull, James V. Christy.  This is a really grimy, shocking, crime-horror thriller, the likes of which we’ve seldom ever seen.  Katcher, who’s not that good of an actor yet is perfect for this film, plays one of the most terrifyingly ruthless villains imaginable...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Secret of the Caves,” Frank and Joe come to the rescue of a woman who was on her way to see their famous detective father, Fenton Hardy. Her brother has disappeared and she pleads for the detective’s help...

(1956) Sergey Stolyarov, Igor Vladimirov, Sergei Golovanov, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Vakhtang Ninua, Sergey Komarov.  This grand Russian sci-fi color epic is about a futuristic submarine’s desperate undersea search for a lost Soviet vessel, which was destroyed and sunk under very mysterious circumstances...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) Pierre Brice, Heinz Drache, Daliah Lavi, Jana Brejchová, Terence Hill, Anton Diffring, Senta Berger.  Brice plays a secret agent who’s given the job of retrieving a stolen NATO missile control device (the B501) that has fallen into the hands of a criminal syndicate...

(1972) Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, Astrid Heeren, John Carradine. On Christmas Eve Lawyer John Carter (O'Neal), with mistress in tow,  arrives to a small Massacussets town where he is charged with selling a home inherited by Jeffrey Butler (Patterson). When O'neal and his mistress go missing that very night, Patterson sets out to...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Rossana Podestà, Guy Madison, Mario Petri, Giacomo Rossi Stuart.  This lively peplum classic takes place during the time of Julius Caesar's incursion against the Gauls, who have broken their treaty with Rome.  The Gauls are a pretty barbaric bunch and Madison plays a Roman soldier sent in to tame them.  However, in the usual turn of events, he finds himself falling in love...

(1978, Anamorphic Widescreen) Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach, Claudio Cassinelli, Antonio Marsina.  Andress (in her early forties and still gorgeous) stars as a headstrong woman who takes an expedition into the wilds of the Guinean jungle, searching for her missing husband...

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) Yvonne Furneaux, John Ericson, Renzo Ricci, Gianni Rizzo, Germano Longo.  In this sprawling peplum tale, Furneaux plays the drop-dead gorgeous Semiramis, a vile, scheming member of the King of Assyria’s court. She is an overtly ambitious beauty who doesn’t hesitate...

(1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Allan Edwall, Lars Ekborg, Karl-Arne Holmsten, Heinz Hopf, Elsa Prawitz.  This psychological horror thriller has been described as a “Giallo film shot in Sweden.”  The central action takes place on board a speeding train, where numerous gruesome killings take place...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain, Gerald Flood, Glynn Edwards, Sam Kydd.  What a cool movie this turned out to be (7.0 on IMDB).  In the opening moments of the film, a blazing car goes crashing over a seaside cliff, plunging into the murky waters below and killing its driver.  The deceased had been insured for 100,000 pounds...

(1966, Anamorphic Edition) Paul Hubschmid, Karin Dor, Vivi Bach, Rosalba Neri, Nando Gazzolo.  Hubschmid is quite good as “Upperseven,” a master of disguise. He teams up with a CIA operative played by the beautiful Karin Dor, who would become a Bond girl the following year in You Only Live Twice.  Together, the two of them set out to smash a diamond smuggling ring...

(1976) Lisa Harrow, Christian Quadflieg, Pierre Brice, Christiane Krüger, Judy Geeson, Derek Farr.  A wandering planet from deep space drifts into the solar system and is detected by Earth scientists who soon investigate. The planet is called Medusa; its surface is uninhabitable and its people now live in a high-tech underground city. This subterranean society is ruled by women...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “A Subterranean Adventure” by George Paul Bauer is the 59th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series, illustrated by that master science fiction artist, Frank R. Paul. When reading through the June 1930 issue of Wonder Stories magazine...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Sean Flynn, Marie Versini, Alessandra Panaro, Mimmo Palmara, directed by Umberto Lenzi. A group of religious fanatics, the Sikkim rebels, capture a Brit officer and a Viceroy’s daughter. Another Brit officer, played by Flynn, undertakes a daring plan to rescue the two captives...

TERROR IS A MAN—Severin Blu-ray Edition (1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Francis Lederer, Richard Derr, Greta Thyssen, Oscar Keesee.  In 1959, American producer Kane Lynn teamed with Filipino filmmakers Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon to make a grisly thriller billed as ”a unique experience in motion picture terror!” Its global success would soon transform...

(1929) Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard, Bela Lugosi; Richard Dix, Miriam Seegar, Margaret Livingston, Lucien Littlefield.  The Thirteenth Chair is a good early-talkie whodunit... Seven Keys to Badpate is a well-done old dark hotel comedy-thriller...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giuliano Gemma, Jacqueline Sassard, Pedro Armendáriz, Antonella Lualdi, Serge Nubret. This great sword & sandal film is filled with fantastic elements and supernatural creatures, including a cyclops and a gorgon.  Gemma plays Crius, the youngest of the Greek titans, all of whom are imprisoned by the gods.  Freedom for him and his brothers is promised in return for...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel’s first story is Robert Turner’s whodunit thriller, “The Tobacco Auction Murders.” Her last footsteps were shrouded by a screen of smoke! Jake Krane came South in search of his oddly silent wife. Vickie’s last letter had been filled with a mysterious sense of desperation... This double novel’s second tale is “The Sound of Death,” by pulp writer exraordinaire, David Wright O’Brien. When a person enlisted in the service and went to war, those who had families prayed for their safe return. But that wasn’t the case with some...