Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories.  In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Missing Chums,” Frank and Joe Hardy give a grand send-off to their two pals, Chet Morton and Biff Hooper, who are departing on an adventurous boat trip along the coast.  Their boat cuts through the waters of Barmet Bay and out into the ocean, even with storm clouds brewing...

(1981) Lucy McGrath, Paul Farrell, Lee Hatherly, Paul Jenden.  On Christmas Eve, a little girl awakens thinking she hears Santa Claus (Father Christmas) entering the house.  What she finds is a weird monster who pleads for her to help defeat an evil witch...

(1968, Anamorphic Widescreen) George Nader, Heinz Weiss, Grit Boettcher, Herbert Stass, Robert Fuller.  In the opening scene, Robert Fuller terrorizes a bunch of lovely, partially undressed girls in their dressing room.  Nader (as agent Jerry Cotton) smashes through a window and saves the girls, who then shower him with compliments. This sets the tone for the film as Cotton sets out to solve numerous killings...

(1952) Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Tod Slaughter, Frank Hawkins. These two episodes are from an obscure Brit detective TV series.  Barr, as Morley, is an ex-police inspector, now in private practice.  He’s called in by two elderly sisters who say that someone is plotting to kill them...

(1937) Edmund Lowe, Ann Todd, Sebastian Shaw, Robert Newton, Tamara Desni, Alastair Sim.  In London, safes are being knocked over by underlings of an unknown criminal mastermind—businesses, mansions…they’re not too particular about whom they rob...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Mystery Message” by T. C. Bridges is the 57^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  It was a mad race through a  snake-infested jungle...

(1960, Anamorphic Widescreen) Adrian Hoven, Renate Ewert, Hans von Borsody, Jochen Brockmann.  This cool Krimi offering is available with English subtitles for the first time.  Inside a smoky nightclub called “the Green Spider” a beautiful singer finishes her song, then the band takes over, playing a raucous jazzy tune.  Lost in all the noise is the sound of a gunshot...

(1983, Anamorphic Widescreen) Giancarlo Prete, Fred Williamson, George Eastman, Anna Kannakis.  Giancarlo and Fred are wandering mercenaries who help the survivors of a post-apocalypse fight off a group of evil homosexual biker dudes...

(1965, Anamorphic Edition) John Saxon, Maurice Denhand, Patricia Haines, Alfred Burke.  A monstrous alien creature from Ganymede comes to Earth looking for young Earth females.  Why? To kidnap them...

(1967) John Agar, Carol Gilley, Bill Thurman, Ralph Baker, Jr., Roger Ready.  We always like to release a few grade-Z classics—and this is definitely one. A top secret government experiment regarding the effects of cosmic rays on animal life meets with unexpected results...

(1964, Anamorphic Widescreen) Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Ingrid Schoeller, Carla Calò, directed by Lucio Fulci.  It’s those crazy Italians again, Franchi and Ingrassia, whom you loved in 002—Operation Moon.  This time the boys take up the spy trade when they’re mistaken for KGB agents...

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...

(1935) Bela Lugosi, Arthur Margetson, Shirley Grey, Edmund Willard, Dennis Hoey.  Bela signs on to the Mary Celeste, seeking revenge on the first mate, who shanghaied him years before and threw him to the sharks, resulting in the loss of his arm.  They encounter a violent storm at sea and soon the crew is being murdered off...

(1956) Googie Withers, John McCallum, Bill Kerr, Joan Hickson, Ewan Roberts.  This is a pretty good British B thriller. A couple of sailors come ashore in London looking for a good time and a few laughs before returning to their ship...

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

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

(1974, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Senta Berger, Luc Merenda, Umberto Orsini, Anita Strindberg, Bruno Corazzari.  This is a very well-made Euro-thriller with Merenda playing a bewildered man who’s lost his memory as the result of a car crash...