(1979) Toshiyuki Nishida, Isao Natsuyagi, Haruko Wanibuchi, Tomoko Saitô.  This is a really well-made Japanese “locked room” murder mystery set in the 1930s.  The famous Nipponese detective Kindaichi is called in to investigate a number of horrible slayings.  His investigations soon point the finger at members of a wealthy family—a family that, as it turns out, has many dark secrets to hide...

(1972) Stelio Candelli, Patrizia Viotti, Veronika Korosec, Rossella Bergamonti, Tom Felleghy.  A man finds his wife brutally murdered. He has no alibi so is instructed by his lawyer to go into hiding in an old, abandoned hotel. Strange occurrences start happening immediately, including the discovery of a woman with her throat cut! The hotel setting of this film is in some ways reminiscent of The Shining...

(1979) Uldis Pucitis, Jüri Järvet, Lembit Peterson.  A police inspector comes to a remote mountain hotel to investigate a murder.  Shortly after his arrival a snowslide cut the hotel off from civilization.  The inspector then begins to realize that something far worse than a simple case of murder is afoot—aliens, androids, terrorists, and more...

(1930) Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert.  Wolheim plays a hard-nosed boss of a railroad yard who befriends a young drifter, who previously was a railroad man himself.  Soon things get dicey when the boss’ girl starts to fall for the handsome newcomer.  The high speed train sequences are pretty amazing for the time... 

(1970) Vincent Price, Essy Persson, Patrick Mower, Elisabeth Bergner. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL, FACTORY SEALED HBO VHS pre-record and our quantity is limited.  A vengeance-seeking Druid cult leader is out to get Price and his family. She sends a demon werewolf in the form of a handsome youg man to...

CROSS-UP (1958) Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Lisa Daniely, Donald Stewart. On the first night of his London assignment, news agency reporter Parks becomes heavily involved with a mysterious woman (Daniely). The affair ends when she is shot as they grapple for a gun she has pulled.  But this is only the beginning of Parks’ troubles, especially considering the dead woman worked for a criminal organization...

(1940) Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Greta Gynt, Charles Oliver, Gordon McLeod.  Radford and Wayne reprise their Lady Vanishes roles as Charters and Caldicott, a couple of well-seasoned yet naïve British world travelers.  By the random act of ordering certain items off a menu, they find themselves the unwitting carriers of a phonograph record filled secret Nazi info.  Of course the Nazis try everything possible to eliminate them...  

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Crooked City” is a taut, nail-biting novel of corruption and greed by Robert Kyle.  “MacBAIN CAUGHT, JAILED IN QUINN MURDER—Professional Cop’s Wife in Love Triangle”  That was what the headlines read. It was a tough spot for a not-so-tough man—James MacBain. MacBain lived in an asphalt tabernacle for prostitutes, dope pushers, and murderers...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Crooked Circle” is a gritty tale of suicide and murder; authored by crime/mystery novelist Manning Lee Stokes.  A hundred grand could tempt anyone.  Private investigator Steve Paget had always thought he would do anything for money, but nothing quite as vile and low-down as Jefferson Torrance’s proposition had ever been offered to him before...

(1973, WIDESCREEN) Paul Naschy, Silvia Solar, Olivier Mathot, Evelyn Scott, Claude Boisson.  This Naschy chiller features a mad scientist who decides to push the boundaries of science and perform a head transplant on an injured criminal.  The results, however, are not quite what the good doctor expects, as his creation becomes a far more deadly creature than the criminal ever was...

(1961) Anthony Carbone, Betsy Jones Moreland, Robert Towne, Beach Dickerson, Esther Sandoval.  Now in widescreen from a stunning 35mm print.  A fake sea monster, blamed for many deaths, turns out to be real!  The monster is kind of goofy-looking, but still more than able to rip you to shreds—which it does to more than one victim!  

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “The Colossus Conclusion” by the highly underrated science fiction author, S. J. Byrne.  It was a desperate struggle for Earth!  The second novel is “The Mental Assassins” by Hugo-Award-nominated author, Rob Phillips.  He was a dream world hit man...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel features two great sci-fi adventures.  The first is Emmett McDowell’s “Citadel of the Green Death.”  The second novel is Dwight V. Swain’s “Drummers of Daugavo.” Both are terrific tales...

(1949) Dorothea Paul, Betty Williams, Georgie Carey, Cedric Staples.  This obscure British sea-faring docu-drama is all about a lost infant found in a boat near a fishing village.  Having no way to trace his roots, he grows up in the village with his destiny seemingly out in the rolling waves of the ocean...

(1980) John Carradine, Suzanne Love, Ron James. THIS IS AN ORIGINAL, FACTORY SEALED Magnum VHS pre-record and our quantity is limited.  A girl and her brother guard the secret of a childhood murder. Years later, they return to the scene of the crime but discover a supernatural horror from beyond...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Mystery-crime writer Richard Deming paints a tale of wildly escalating corruption and atrocities in “Body for Sale.”  Blackmail, Sex, and Murder… Tom Cavanaugh never quarreled over the means to an end, as the end was worth grabbing for—even if his common sense told him NO!  So when he found out he was going to be fired, he played a blackmail card—a card that delivered...

(1960) Daliah Lavi, Gert Günther Hoffmann, Abraham Eisenberg, Uri Zohar.  A band of five adventurers get together on a treasure hunt.  Their quest is for a cache of priceless biblical scrolls, which—according to the legends—is supposed to be lying in the lost city Petra, located somewhere in ancient Jordan.  The challenge is that no man has supposedly ever survived the quest for this treasure...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “Biddy and the Silver Man,” a fantastic tale by E. K. Jarvis.  The second novel is “Four-Day Planet” by veteran sci-fi author, H. Beam Piper...