THE $98 SPECIAL IS BACK through Wednesday, August 23rd of 2023, grab ANY TWELVE (12) TITLES FOR ONLY 98 DOLLARS POSTPAID.  Simply add this to your cart and take advantage of this great special—our most popular sale ever...

(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...

(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 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...

(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, 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...

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...

 (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...

(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...

Simply add this item to your cart to receive the latest Sinister Cinema flyer.

(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...

Click on "current sales" above to find our gift certificate listings. If you want a custom amount for your gift certificate, call us with your Visa or Mastercard during regular business hours at 541-773-6860

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...

(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...

(1956) Curt Jurgens, Geneviève Page, Jacques Dacqmine, Sylva Koscina, Gerard Buhr, Louis Arbessier.  19^th century Tartar unrest throws Russia into turmoil and the Czar desperately needs to communicate with his brother.  Unfortunately, his sibling (a Duke) is stuck behind enemy lines.  Jurgens (the Czar’s agent) is given the task of getting the message through...

 (1957, Anamorphic Widescreen) Francisco Rabal, Sylva Koscina, Gianna Maria Canale, Rik Battaglia.  It’s heroic European Christians pitted against a Muslim villain and his Islamic army. Look for some well-staged action sequences, including a big siege at the end of the film.  Great to see two beauties, Sylva Koscina and Gianna Maria Canale, pitted against each other as love rivals.  Battaglia, of course, is in the center of all the action—both kinds! Color, 35mm.

(1943) Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Russell Hayden, Guinn Williams, Chick Chandler, Grant Withers, Emma Dunn. A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins...

KING KELLY OF THE U.S.A. (1934) Irene Ware; THE OUTER GATE (1937) Ralph Morgan; IRISH LUCK (1939) Frankie Darro; CONVICTS CODE (1939) Robert Kent.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “Murder Can’t Wait” is the name of this hardboiled novel, written by Manning Stokes. A million dollars was waiting at the end of a murderous plot. To say Vince Donnellen was down on his luck would be an understatement...

 (1960) Ugo Tognazzi, Carlo Croccolo, Raimondo Vianello, Abbe Lane, Hélène Chanel.  What you’ve got here is a pretty well-made Euro horror comedy.  Yes, there are plenty of laughs in this film, but they are blended in with many scary moments, all of which are enhanced by the film’s chillingly gothic B&W photography.  The setting is a school for wayward girls...

(1941) Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare, Renee Houston, Ronald Shiner.  Mills (young Bill) enlists in the British Army to help his country against the Nazi threat.  Not to be undone by his offspring, Graham (Old Bill) decides to do his part and sign up, too...

(1927) Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles E. Mack, Josef Swickard, Anna May Wong, Angelo Rossitto.  Costello and Swickard are fading San Francisco aristocracy. Disaster looms when an evil land shark (expertly played by Oland, who keeps his dwarf brother—Rossito—in a cage) attempts to steal their land...

(1960) Paul Hagen, Louis Miehe-Renard, Ebbe Langberg, Preben Kaas, Klaus Pagh.  After bumping into three dames, a UN soldier falls in love with one of them—a French dancer.  He later meets her at her workplace...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Frank Belknap Long’s “Planet without Love” is the first tale in this double novel. It was a planet where sex and love were crimes of the first magnitude. How long can a girl suppress the romantic desires that are natural to a beautiful and healthy female?  The second tale in this double novel is Frank M. Robinson’s “The Dead End Kids of Space.” It would one day be called, “The Great Interplanetary Heist!” Peter Johnson was a brilliant scientist who was just starting to make his mark...

(1955, Anamorphic Widescreen) Tim Turner, Joan Rice, Christopher Lee, Sandra Dorne, Charles Victor.  We’ve never been big fans of the “dog movies” of the 1930s (Rin Tin Tin, etc.), but this B-British action-crime film is really pretty good.  Plus it’s got Christopher Lee to boot!  Two British cops pursue a burglary suspect.  One of them is shot and killed...

LAW OF THE TIMBER (1941) THEY RAID BY NIGHT (1942) Lyle Talbot  TOO MANY WOMEN (1942) Neil Hamilton TOMORROW WE LIVE (1942) Ricardo Cortez.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1959, Anamorphic Widescreen) Charles Veltmann Jr., Jodean Lawrence, Stanton Pritchard, Henry Darrow, Script by Edward D. Wood, Narrated by Kenne Duncan.  Only Ed Wood could have scripted something like this—a low budget western with topless Indian maidens prancing about...

(1970) Anna Cropper, Amanda Walker, Julian Holloway, Bernard Hepton, Andy Bradford.  This made-for-TV chiller has the same kind of feel as Christopher Lee’s The Wicker Man. After parting ways with her long term lover, Cropper takes refuge in a lonely country house.  She gets to know the local villagers, who seem friendly at first; yet there seems to be something latently sinister about their...

Kirk Morris, Margaret Lee, Daniele Vargas, Tullio Altamura.  An evil pirate menaces the sea lanes, attacking and looting ships.  Crews are slain and women are sold off as slaves.  Samson comes to the rescue...

(1964, Upgraded 11/23/22) John Call, Pia Zadora, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck, Bill McCutcheon, Victor Stiles. So bad it's great.  Martians travel into the void of outer space on a secret mission to Earth.  Their mad scheme?  Kidnap Santa Claus and bring him back to Mars!  For what purpose?  To engage his services for...

 (1954) Hazel Court, Griffith Jones, Zena Marshall, Robert Percival.  What a great surprise this nifty (nifty is the word) British murder mystery turned out to be.  Insurance investigator Griffin Jones is duped by a gorgeous blonde and framed for murdering the wife of a rich businessman...

(1965) Nélida Lobato, Nick Novarro, Richard Beebe, Robert Miller, John Richards, Alan J. Smith. An excellent example of the kind of gritty, seedy, sleazy, el-cheapo exploitation-crime films what were made in the early-to-mid ‘60s.  The Seventh Commandment, Shanty Tramp, The Sadist, and Commonlaw Wife are other prime examples...

(1973, aka THE HOUSE THAT VANISHED) Andrea Allan, Karl Lanchbury, Maggie Walker, Peter Forbes-Robertson, Judy Matheson.  If you like old dark house chillers this film’s for you.  A fashion model and her thieving boyfriend come across a creepy house deep inside a dark, fog-bound forest...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The leadoff novel is “The Secret of Elena’s Tomb” by Karl Tanzler von Cosel. This is a novelized true story of death and rejuvenation. And readers beware, this frightfully delicious tale of love, obsession, and science gone mad is morbidly true and not for the faint of heart.  The second novel is Amazing Stories regular Leroy Yerxa’s “Witch of Blackfen Moor.” Summoned just before midnight, Doctor Thaddius Quantry raced to the looming fortress of Blackfen manor, which stood in the desolation of the moors as an unwavering beacon in the darkness. As he neared the manor, an agonized scream broke through the eerie stillness of the moor.

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Secret of the Old Mill,” Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves trying to track down the hideout of a counterfeiting gang whose operations appear to be located somewhere near the Hardy's hometown of Bayport.  The trail soon leads to a mysterious...

(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...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Written by famed British India author Ganpat, “Snow Rubies” is the 46^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  The story concerns a mysterious valley in a distant part of the world.  A passage lost to time lay undiscovered until Commander Frank Weston unwittingly happened upon a...

(1965) Ronald Lewis, John Gabriel, Jane Downs, Richard Gale, Delena Kidd.  This made-for-TV Brit sci-fi film is absolutely riveting.  A strange tramp collapses near the home of a doctor, who himself has been suffering from bad dreams.  In his nightmares he repeatedly sees someone resembling the tramp.  The tramp is admitted to the hospital, clutching a small, decaying...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The leadoff novel is “Space-Liner X-87” by heralded science fiction author, Ray Cummings. There was a murder mystery on board X-87! Under the guise of a mathematics clerk, special agent Fred Penelle boarded the X-87 with the mission of uncovering an interplanetary plot. The second novel is Amazing Stories veteran Earl L. Bell’s “The Moon of Doom.” The end was nigh! The change had begun simply, with nothing more than the sun rising three minutes later than usual...

(1945, aka THE BELLMAN) Renée Faure, Roger Pigaut, Madeleine Robinson, Lucien Coëdel, Fernand Ledoux..  With every batch of new releases there’s always a film or two that we absolutely rave about.  Spells is one of those films.  The IMDB description fits it perfectly, listing it as a horror-crime-drama.  Spells is full of latent and overt horror elements, featuring a black devil horse that terrorizes mountain villagers...

(1936) John “Dusty” King, Jean Rogers, Hooper Atchley, Stanley Blystone., Al Bridge, Noah Beery, Lon Chaney.  This is the action-packed feature version of the Universal 13-chapter serial, Ace Drummond, directed by Ford Beebe. The nice thing about condensations like this is you get all the best stuff...

(1957) Ken Utsui, Junko Ikeuchi, Minoru Takada.  Another 100 minutes of spaced-out Japanese superhero schlockiness.  This two-disc set is in Japanese with no subtitles but the storylines are so obvious it’s fairly simple to fathom what’s going on.  The big guy, Starman, takes on various bad guys...

(1946) Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova.  Simply put, this is a brilliant, beautiful-to-look-at fantasy of the highest order.  You will be enchanted with the dreamlike quality of this film.  It’s like watching a sublime painting that’s come to life.  A wonderful music score enhances the splendor of this classic film.  It is a simple tale of...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is “Strange Mission” by sci-fi and fantasy veteran Howard Browne.  Arthur Pendran was like most average joes: young, able and ready to join the war efforts. The only problem was his colorblindness that had prevented any doctor from clearing him for active duty.  The second novel is Paul Ernst’s exciting tale, “The Raid on the Termites.”  Into the tiny corridors of crawling death...

(1963, English Language, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Karin Dor, Harry Riebauer, Rudolf Fernau, Hans Neilsen, Dieter Eppler, Walter Giller, Ingmar Zeisberg.  Finally, a beautiful widescreen English edition of this classic Krimi horror thriller.  A hooded maniac is on the loose...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Written by famed pulp author Harl Vincent, “Subterrania” is the 44^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  In this edition you get two lost world-lost race classics in one.  “Subterrania” is a dynamite combination of two of Harl Vincent’s best works...

(1954) Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, Nancy Gates, James Gleason, Paul Frees.  There are some high quality 4:3 video editions of this film around, but we feel our 16:9 anamorphic edition is the best on the market.  This is a minor film noir classic!  Sinatra and his pals are hired assassins who...

(1979) Tayfun Demir, Güngör Bayrak, Yildirim Gencer, Esref Kolçak, Nejat Özbek.  Okay, let’s face it, this is a LOW-budget Turkish super hero film, which as a genre make people like Ed Wood look like geniuses.  You know what kind of low-budget dredge to expect when the special effects include a...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Veteran science fiction author Arthur J. Burk’s “Survival” is the lead off tale in this double novel. Was the last of mankind rushing blindly toward its destruction? The second tale in this great double novel is “Double Identity” penned by one of the better science fiction authors of the 20th Century, Raymond Z. Gallun. While humans enjoyed all that life on Earth had to offer, the creatures of the moon were struggling to survive...

(1971) Kartal Tibet, Eva Bender, Seher Seniz, Bilal Inci, Fatma Belgen, Atif Kakptan.  Although Tarkan Vs. the Vikings is filled with the cheapest costumes imaginable, cardboard sets, inept special effects, and cheesy monsters, it’s the best Turkish movie we’ve ever seen from the ‘60s or ‘70s.  It really does have that kind of “big epic-spectacle film” feel to it...

(1926, Universal Jewel) Hoot Gibson, Blanche Mehaffey, Alan Roscoe, Jack Curtis.  Hoot’s a Hollywood movie-cowboy who gets in a jam when he poses as a two-gun outlaw from Texas.  He soon finds himself caught in the middle of a dispute between a shady “development” company and the local ranchers...

(1963) Adrian Hoven, Ann Smyrner, Klaus Kinski, Ady Berber, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter Vogel, Paul Dahlke, Gunter Meisner, Marianne Schönauer.  A truck driver (Hoven) innocently transports a drug dealer and his shipment of drugs.  They are stopped by members of an opposing drug gang (posing as police) and the dealer is shot dead.  The truck driver soon falls into a myriad of terrifying situations...

(1965, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vsevolod Safonov, Mikhail Astangov, Natalya Klimova, Mikhail Kuznetsov. This is an amazing mad scientist film laced with espionage and intrigue.  Garin is a mad inventor who has created (with stolen plans) an apparatus called the Hyperboloid.  It is a death ray of unparalleled destructive power...

(1966) Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Gothard, Nike Arrighi, Jonathan Hansen.  The setting is in the distant future.  All the physical needs of mankind are provided for by an all-present “Machine,” which controls men’s lives through a vast series of tunnels inside the Earth.  Man’s every need is provided...

(1957) Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Crox Alvarado, América Martín.  This forgotten Mexican horror gem concerns a village that has fallen into a state of panic-stricken horror.  There are ax murders that leave gruesome remains for the villagers to discover.  But there’s more than just an ax-wielding maniac afoot...

(1961) Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, Antonella Lualdi, Franco Silva, Roldano Lupi.  This is probably the best best video edition of this sword and sandal classic released to date, now in anamorphic widescreen from a beautiful color 35mm print.  During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues...

 (1960) Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn, Maya Koumani, Terence Alexander, Mary Clare, Victor Brooks.  Jackson plays a recently-released-from-prison convict who has trouble finding work.  He changes name and...

(1930) Julie Suedo, Gibb McLaughlin, Frances Cuyler, Tony Wylde, Byron Webber, Kiyoshi Takase.  A beautiful Chinese maiden (who could easily pass for white) enters into a more or less “arranged” marriage with an older, wealthy Dutch businessman.  The marriage was set up by a sinister Chinese racketeer, who is to receive half the inheritance after the murder of her husband...

(1971) Jack Hedley, John Carson, Alethea Charlton, Sonia Graham. A brilliant scientist has a fantastic plan to secure research money.  He has invented an amazing machine that transfers the mind of one person into the body of another.  He and his wife lure...

 (1967) Louis Jourdan, Senta Berger, Edmund O’Brien, Maurice Garrel. In this special 2-disc set, you get beautiful anamorphic editions of both the English language version as well as the original French-language version (with English subs).  Jourdan plays a poorly selling novelist-turned-unlucky-gambler in this engaging French spy movie. He soon becomes a pawn in a huge espionage plot concerning the defection of a famed laser scientist to the Red Chinese.  A little slow at first but the film really kicks into gear in the second half.  There are a couple of cool fight scenes, one especially with a guy going after another with a knife. O’Brien has a nice part as Jourdan’s publisher; Senta is drop dead gorgeous.  Beautiful color, from 35mm.

(1949 aka KILLER BAIT) Lizabeth Scott, Don Defoe, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy. Scott turns in one of the best “femme fatale” performances of all time as she portrays a scheming woman who eliminates everyone in her way as she tries to...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Tower Treasure,” Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves looking for a hidden stash of stolen jewels and securities. Their only clues are the words of a dying criminal: “I hid it in the old tower.” What follows is...

(1964) Albert Lieven, Gary Raymond, Margot Trooger, Catherine Schell, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent.  There’s a plot afoot to steal the Crown Jewels!  It all starts when a corrupt businessman breaks a two-bit crook out of Dartmoor prison.  Why?...

(1947) James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Henry Oscar.  A great murder thriller that examines the fine line between brilliance and insanity.  Mason is excellent as a famed surgeon, unhappily married, who falls for another woman, unhappily married herself.  When a death occurs...

(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Walter Brandi, Hélène Rémy, Tina Gloriani, Isarco Ravaioli.  The opening scene of this movie is pretty cool—a girl at night by a waterfall, howling dogs, screeching night birds and…you guessed it…a hideous, bloodthirsty vampire.  Things get exciting when...

(1965, aka OPERATION HURRICAN: FRIDAY NOON, Upgraded 12/9/22) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Sylvia Pascal, Helga Schlack, Helmut Fornbacher, Philippe Guégan. This is the first Jerry Cotton movie and it's a pretty good one.  Jerry’s after a gang of crooks who pose as a musical band as a front for their nefarious schemes.  They pull off numerous heist and eventually plan to blow up a school full...

(1962, Anamorphic Widescreen) Rod "Flash" Ilush, Bella Cortez, Liliana Zagra, Roger Browne, Gordon Mitchell.  Another beautiful upgrade of one of our most popular S&S titles.  There are lots of horror and fantasy elements here—Ancient gods, lizard-like monsters, and strange underground creatures...

(1962) Howard Duff, Jocelyn Lane, Luciano Marin, Giancarlo Sbragia, Arnoldo Foa, Jose Greci.  A powerful king and his naïve younger sibling go eyeball to eyeball over the affections of a gorgeous young peasant woman.  While this is happening a sinister plot is is hatched...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  “Weird Tales: Lost World-Lost Race Stories, Vol. One” edited by Gregory Luce is the 43^rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Weird Tales magazine was a treasure trove of lost world-lost race gems...

 (1971) Anthony Ainley, Jennifer Hilary, Bernard Brown, Derek Benfield, Gerald Sim.  This amazing British teleplay concerns a doctor who returns home from the hospital following a car accident, only to be told he’s not who he is.  Another doctor, with the same name, is living with his wife.  He is told that he is suffering from...

 (1976) Billie Whitelaw, Ian Hendry, Charles Kay, Edward Hardwicke, Charles Keating.   There’s a werewolf afoot in a sinister old castle!  It all centers around the surviving admirers of an aging countess (wonderfully played by Whitelaw) who have gathered in her isolated castle to pay their respects.  However, it doesn’t take them long to realize that they will never be permitted to leave—alive...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “When the Earth Swung Over” by Alfred Colbeck is the 47^th installment of our “Lost World-Lost Race Classics” series.  It was a danger-filled rescue mission!  After Billy Wedge’s arrival at Thorswick Manor, he recounted how he and his shipwrecked companions had been captured by a lost South American race of...

(1966-1967, Anamorphic Widescreen) Karin Dor, Uwe Beyer, Rolf Henniger, Herbert Lom, Siegfried Wischnewski, Maria Marlow, Christian Rode, Hans von Borsody, Terence Hill, Fred Williams, directed by Harald Reinl. Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy was originally released in the U.S. as a single feature film.  However, like Fritz Lang’s Journey to the Lost City, it was culled from two separate films...

(1979) Earl Owensby, Kristina Reynolds, Sid Rancer, Ed Grady, Richard Dedmon.  Nothing like a fun, schlocky American-made werewolf movie set in the Deep South—and that’s what this is.  The werewolf makeup isn’t exactly Jack Pierce, but it’s still pretty cool.  The film begins in a rustic old mansion with the stabbing death of an old man as he lays in his death bed—something about a family curse...

(1986, Anamorphic Widescreen) Valeria D'Obici, Leonardo Treviglio, Lea Martino, Eliana Miglio, Barbara Scoppa.  A man discovers his wife has been having an affair.  This results in a heated argument. Not much later she’s found deader than a doornail...