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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...

(1963, Anamorphic English Edition) 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...

(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...

(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...

(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...  

(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...

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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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...

 (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...

(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...

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...

(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...

(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...

(1961, Anamorphic English Edition) 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...

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 is proud to offer beautiful paperback editions of the first four books in the classic Ted Scott Flying Stories series: In this first tale of the series, “Over the Ocean to Paris,” the reader is taken from Ted Scott’s humble, impoverished beginnings to his remarkable rise into the U.S. Air Mail Service as a crackerjack pilot...

Armchair Fiction is proud to offer the Ted Scott Flying Stories. “Over the Rockies with the Air Mail,” by Franklin W. Dixon, was written in 1927.  Ted faces a storm in near-zero temperatures, a snarling grizzly bear, plane saboteurs, a violent plane crash, a fang-baring rattlesnake, and of course there’s a dastardly villain lurking in the shadows...

(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...

 (1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) 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...

Armchair Fiction is proud to offer beautiful paperback editions of the first four books in the classic Ted Scott Flying Stories series: In this second exciting installment, “Rescued in the Clouds,” (by John W. Duffield, aka Franklin W. Dixon), the reader finds Ted Scott using his top-notch plane to help the victims of a cataclysmic flood, all the while rescuing burning airplanes, battling man-eating crocodiles, fending off poisonous snakes...

(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...

 (1946) Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gabby Hayes, Dennis Hoey, Elisabeth Risdon. There’s a bloody dispute between cattlemen and sheepmen.  It’s up to Roy and the boys to prevent an all-out range war...

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 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...

THE SEVENTH GRAVE (1965, Anamorphic Widescreen) 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 séance is held prior to the will being read in an effort to ferret out...

(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...

(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...

(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...

(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.

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...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is “Valley of Invisible Men” by one of the best science fiction authors of the 20^th Century, Edmond Hamilton.  A lost race, empowered by the might of a lost god!  The second novel is “Doorway to Hell” by renowned science fiction author and editor Raymond A. Palmer.  Did hell’s gates really yawn before him?...

(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 classic science fiction and fantasy double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is a terrific tale of interplanetary conflict, R. H. Roman’s “The War of the Planets.”  It was a tremendous battle of three worlds. The second novel is by that great science fiction storyteller, David H. Keller, M. D., “The Feminine Metamorphosis.”  When a hospital sprung up in the middle of rural China, no one thought much of it...

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...

(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...

(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...