Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “The Cructars are Coming” by Paul Lawrence Payne.  The second novel is “Made to Order” written by heralded sci-fi author, Frank Belknap Long... 

DANCING WITH CRIME (1947) Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes, Sheila Sim, John Warwick, Garry Marsh.  Attenborough plays a London cab driver who gets in the snares of a criminal gang after he refuses to join them.  This causes a lot of problems for Attenborough, whose pal is one of the gang members.  Attenborough then sets out to expose the gang and...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel “Dawn to Dusk” penned by Eando Binder, is about a wild experiment in suspended animation. The second novel is “The Beast-Men of Ceres”  by sci-fi veteran Aladra Septama... 

DEATH BY INVITATION—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 her dead relative’s spirit...

DEATH DIVE (1974, aka SUBMARINE OF HORROR aka FER DE LANCE) David Janssen, Hope Lange, Jason Evers.  Remember the film Snakes on a Plane from a few years ago?  Well this movie goes back even further and could just as easily be called, “Snakes on a Submarine.”  A crewman on a huge submarine has smuggled aboard a big container of deadly snakes, which escape and start putting the bite on everyone...

DEATH HAUNTS MONICA (1976) Nadiuska, Arturo Fernández, Jean Sorel, Karin Schubert, Damian Velasco.  This is a pretty good Spanish Giallo complete with good guys in trench coasts and mysterious killers.  A beautiful, wealthy lady is implicated in a series of horrible murders.  She ends up running the gauntlet of numerous plot twists and subplots...

THE DEATHHEAD VIRGIN (1974) Jock Gaynor, Larry Ward, Diane McBain, Vic Diaz, Kim Ramos.  Gaynor is a treasure hunter who finds the haul of a lifetime—a sunken galleon off the coast of an island in the Philippines.  Imagine his surprise, though, when he finds the ship is guarded by the vengeful spirit of an ancient princess...

THE DEVIL’S AGENT—Widescreen Edition (1961) Peter Van Eyck, Christpher Lee, Macdonald Carey, Marianne Koch, Billy Whitelaw.  Lee takes his pal, Van Eyck (a former intel officer) to his country estate on a fishing excursion.  But when Lee's sister asks Van Eyck to transport a small package to a contact in Germany, the baffled Van Eyck is thrown into a circle of spy games involving the Russians...

DRACULA IN PAKISTAN (1967) Yasmeen Shaukat, Deeba Begum.  In this, Pakistan’s first horror film, Hammer’s Horror of Dracula was remade.  And even though there are many sequences that have nothing to do with its Hammer counterpart, there are many sequences that are obvious facsimiles...

EASY MONEY (1936, Invincible) Onslow Stevens, Kay Linaker, Noel Madison, Allen Vincent.  An assistant DA botches an insurance racket trial against his brother.  He resigns, but goes to work for a private firm in order to bring his brother to justice.  When the brother is murdered, he sets out after the killers...

EDEN CRIED (1967, aka IN THE FALL OF ‘55) Carole Holland, Tom Pace, Victor Izay.  This narrated schlocker appears to have been shot several years earlier, but when released in ’67 it was already dated and unhip.  So it appears they added a narrator to purposely make fun of the movie in a way that would bring in audiences.  What’s even funnier is that the narrator is doing his best Jack Nicholson imitation.  It’s a riot...

THE FALLING MAN (1968)  Henry Silva, Beba Loncar, Keenan Wynn, Carlo Palmucci. Silva plays a tough police inspector in this Euro-crime thriller. A gang of thieves has killed his son.  To make matters worse, he’s accused of killing a police informer.  Soon he’s fired from the force...

FANTOMAS VS. THE IRON CLAW (1969) Demir Karahan, Nebahat Çehre, Yildirim Gencer, Feri Cansel.  This likeable piece of Turkish shlock is about two masked adversaries:  The Iron Claw fights for justice, while the other, Fantomas, is a master criminal.  They do battle while the world watches on.  There are tons of shoot-outs, fistficuffs, and nightclub numbers featuring belly dancers...

THE FERRYMAN (1974) Jeremy Brett, Natasha Parry, Geoffrey Chater, Lesly Dunlop, Andy Bradford.  This is a cool 50-minute TV feature about a horror novelist and his wife who go to a house in the country for a short holiday. To their horror, they soon realize that one of his horror novels is coming true when they are haunted by the ghost of a...

FILIBUS (1915) Cristina Ruspoli, Mario Mariani, Giovanni Spano, Filippo Vallino.  Great early silent super-criminal film with sci-fi elements.  Ruspoli is the sinister sky pirate, Filibus, who pulls off amazing robberies with her super-science airship. When she’s pursued by top-of-the-line detective Mariani, she initiates a  series of...

GHOST STORY OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF HONSHO (1957) Jûzaburô Akechi, Namiji Matsuura, Shigeru Amachi.   A shift-shifting ghost (a Tanuki) is saved by a Japanese noble and vows to protect him and his family.  However, the noble’s nephew has eyes on the old man’s fortune—and his young wife!  After murdering him in cold blood, the nephew finds a supernatural ring slowly...

THE GHOSTS OF KASANE SWAMP (1957) Katsuko Wakasugi, Takashi Wada, Noriko Kitazawa, Tetsurô Tanba.  A blind Japnese masseur visits a samurai warrior to ask for the return of a loan. The samurai, arrogant and cruel, slays him in anger.  Later, his servant dumps the masseur’s body in a dreadful swamp.  Howeve,r the masseur’s ghost soon returns to haunt the samurai...