Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Winged Heels” by S. Andrew Wood is the 51^st installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  It was a love triangle in a lost kingdom!  Juan Moreno was an adventurous outlaw, a renegade who had big plans...

(1928) Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson, Renee Bush.  This silent classic was a big, epic production in its day, with lots of great location shots in the South Seas (an Oscar for Cinematography). Blue gives a grand portrayal of a drunken doctor who has the reputation of a “white god"...

 (1966) Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff.  This amazing docu-drama is about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on Britain.  It pulls no punches.  There are scenes of destruction, radiation poisoning, food riots, etc. that will leave a lasting impression...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. Day Keene starts off this mystery combo with a whodunit gem, “Wake Up to Murder.” Jim Charters was generally a well-liked home-loving type. As a sixty-two-dollar-and-fifty-cents-a-week paralegal, he had earned a reputation of being a straight shooter. That was until he was unceremoniously pink-slipped... This double novel’s second tale is a lively thriller, “Dying Room Only” by Stewart Sterling. Broadway’s smash musical revue had a special added attraction the night Ben Pedley took it in...

(1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Fred Williams, Jack Taylor, Ewa Strömberg, Roberto Camardiel, Siegfried Lowitz, directed by Jesús Franco.  Dr. Mabuse is on the loose again, this time abducting beautiful women in order to subject them to a powerful mind control ray...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “Unholy Night,” a terror-filled thriller by veteran storyteller Hugh B. Cave, starts off this mystery combo. They called the looming structure on the sea cliff “Fulsom’s Folly,” and accounts pertaining to it (whispered only with dread by the local citizens) were shocking tales...This double novel’s second tale is Robert Colby’s thriller,“Kill Me a Fortune.” For Ross Elliot the summer held no promise. With his teaching duties over until fall, and a nasty breakup behind him, he found himself facing boredom, with three months of lonely time on his hands...

(1934) Víctor Urruchúa, Carlos Villatoro, Magda Haller, Beltrán de Heredia.  The setting is an old Gothic monastery.  Inside its dank walls a monk named Javier encounters another monk, with whom he was an acquaintance to long ago, Javier suddenly turns violent and tries to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Treasure Vault of Atlantis” by Olof W. Anderson is the 58^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Would she be trapped in a vault forever?  To modern civilization, the lost world of Atlantis is a continent of myth and legend that...

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

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

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

(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...

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

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

(1961, Anamorphic Widescreen) John McCarthy, Susan Travers, Elsie Harker, Geoffrey Denton.  A crazed English scientist injects his wife with a cobra venom formula to cure her mental illness. Sadly, it has a horrible effect on the woman’s unborn child, who’s born with cold blood...

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

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

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