(1945) Ewart G. Morrison, John Hoy, Ray Reagan, Luisa Rossi, Romano Calo.  After busting out of a Nazi prison train, an American and a British soldier set out across Italy, heading for the Swiss border.  Lots of action, adventure, and intrigue follows as they eventually find themselves leading a group of war refugees toward the border and freedom...  

(1955) Paul Meurisse, Pedro Armendariz, Folco Lulli, Fernand Ledoux, Leopoldo Frances.  This is a filmed adaptation of an adventure from the 1930s.  The story involves an escaped prisoner from a Middle East conflict who sneaks onto a French craft loaded with weapons for sale. Mucho action and adventure follows, including a great storm sequence...

(1958) Jean Négroni, Mokhi, Uroz. Narrated by George Sanders.  Wow!  What we’ve got here is essentially a LOST George Sanders film (he did the narration for this, the AIP American edition), now on video for the first time.  It’s not listed in any of his film listings anywhere we could find—and it’s a pretty good film, too (6.2 on IMDB). This rollicking tale concerns a young adventurer’s exciting, difficult journey to Kabul, all the while being accompanied by a strange horseman...

(1958) Bill Cord, Don Durant, Lisa Montell, Jeanne Gerson.  This AIP drive-in quickie is about a couple of brothers who are stranded on an island populated by pearl-diving women.  To their horror, they discover that one of the regular practices is to sacrifice young maidens to a great stone god.  In the mix there’s also a hidden cache of valuable pearls...

(1961) Peter Cushing, Keith Mitchell, Adrienne Cori, Peter Arne, Kai Fischer, Martin Stephens. Exciting action with plenty of sword play as a forgotten British noble returns to claim his title and finds himself pitted against...

Armchair fiction presents Roy Norton's "The Land of the Lost," our 25th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.   Alone in his hut, a man watched a needle begin its violent course across a moving cylinder. The instrument was a Seismograph and its vigilant attendant, Dr. Martinez, watched in horror. Martinez knew what the cryptic messagemeant—a massive undersea earthquake with monstrous tidal waves just hours away...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Frank R. Stockton's "The Great Stone of Sardis" is the 26th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Written in 1898 but set in 1947, this science fiction thriller has two essential themes—to make the first successful journey to the North Pole, and to further discover just what kind of hidden secrets lay deep under the Earth’s crust...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. S. P. Meek's "Troyana, Illustrated Edition" is the 27th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Troyana was a scientific super city that had been lost to the rest of the world for centuries. It lay hidden in the wildest part of the Brazilian jungle in an area cryptically known as “Tierra Prohibitiva.” But Troyana had finally been rediscovered by...

Armchair fiction presents Eden Phillpotts' "The Golden Fetich," the 28th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Imagine being the son of a respected, seemingly well to do English lord, only to discover upon your father’s death that you had been left virtually penniless.  That’s what happened to Roy Meldrum, son of Lord Meldrum, whose philanthropy had left Roy’s inheritance nearly exhausted.  So with no money to his name...

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...

Armchair fiction presents Frank Aubrey's "The Devil-Tree of El Dorado, Illustrated Edition," our 30th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  HORROR SAT HIGH ATOP MT. RORAIMA!  Who is the mysterious person known only as “Monella?”  Who is he and what is the secret of his shrouded past?  Like all good Lost Race-Lost World novels, “The Devil-Tree of El Dorado” deals with an expedition to a remote corner of the Earth...  

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Here’s another excellent murder mystery, “Farewell to Passion,” by that outstanding whodunit author, Day Keene. From the lush bistros of Sunset Strip, Hollywood, to the brooding swamps of backwoods Georgia, Hi Shannon (his honor destroyed by his wife’s unbridled passions and his head hunted by the law and the L. A. syndicate) searches for the one clue and...

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. David V. Reed's "The Metal Monster Murders" is truly one of the most unique murder mysteries you will ever read.  It crawled from the humid, fetid swamp of Jamaica Bay into the depths of refuse metal in a junkyard on the outskirts of New York...

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. Heralded whodunit author Max Murray lays down a gripping tale of murder and suspense with, “Good Luck to the Corpse.”   Red was his lucky color!  The little man scuttled up to the roulette table.  He looked shrunken and sick. He placed twenty thousand on red.  The croupier spun the wheel, then dropped the little white ball.  It raced around the wheel, slowed, and dropped—red...

(1963) Barbara Steele, Peter Baldwin, Elio Jotta, Harriet White. The chilling sequel to HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK. Barbara and her lover plan the murder of her husband, Dr. Hichcock, who somehow miraculously survived his fall off the stairwell in the first film.  They kill him, but is he...

(1964) Barbara Steele, George Ardisson, Halina Zalewska, Robert Rains. A woman under suspicion of witchcraft is burned alive. Her curse brings her back from the dead for revenge. Ardisson really gets it in the end!  Barbara's seldom looked more beautiful. Lots of great moments, especially the...

(1965) Barbara Steele, Paul Muller Helga Liné, Giuseppe Addobbati, Rik Battaglia, Marino Mase. A terrific film!  Barbara, as Muriel, is unhappily married to Muller (a crazed scientist), and has a fling with the butler/gardener.  The doctor in turn tortures (with acid) and murders them both in a most terrifying way.  The bed electrocution scene...

(1966) Barbara Steele, Ian Ogilvy, John Karlson, Mel Welles.  Villagers hunt down and drown an 18th century witch.  Centuries later, Barb and her hubby vacation in the area.  Their car crashes into the lake at the very spot that the witch was killed.  Instead of Barb emerging from the murky waters...