(1971) James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Horst Frank, Rada Rassimov.  Impressive later Wallace thriller with a couple of imported American actors.  Malden is a blind, retired journalist who overhears a cryptic conversation in front of a medical facility.  That night a company guard is slain...

(1946, United Artists, Upgraded 6/15/21) Robert Cummings, Peter Lorre, Steve Cochran, Michele Morgan, Jack Holt, Lloyd Corrigan. A minor film classic!  Intriguing story of an ex-G.I. who, by the simple act of returning a lost wallet, finds himself mixed up with hardened criminals. Cochran and Lorre give terrific low-key performances as a couple of overdressed psychos. The horrific scene with Lloyd Corrigan will...

(1935) Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Ben Field, Mary Clare, Jane Baxter, Felix Aylmer.  Rains is brilliant as a sideshow mind reader whose powers turn out to be real. Soon he is making a plethora of accurate predictions—deaths, accidents, horse racing results, etc.  However, he is unable to control his prophecies until he...

(1933) Ramón Pereda, Virginia Zurí,  Carlos Orellana, Adriana Lamar, Alberto Marti.  A man drops dead on a lonely midnight street after hearing the wail of a ghost woman.  In a nearby mansion, tales are told of ancient curses that will bring death upon the family’s young son.  There is a black-hooded figure lurking about secret passageways, seemingly waiting to strike.  Soon the grandfather is found in the study, murdered, the sound of the wailing...

(1963, Anamorphic Widescreen) Annie Alberti, Adriano Micantoni, Marco Mariani, Flora Carosello, Antonio Boccaci.  This is a good old monster in a castle tale.  A couple of young babes wander into a supposedly haunted castle.  No ghosts, but they are done in by a monster with a hideous face.  There's also a young girl haunted by...

(1962) Guy Williams, Don Burnett, Ilaria Occhini, Liana Orfei, Anroldo Foa.  Pythias (Burnett) is a high-ideal Athenian who comes to Syracuse to find Arcanos, an underground leader.  Damon (Williams) is the devil-may-care thief who agrees (for money) to find him for Pythias. Syracuse’s draconian ruler Dionysus (Foa) is determined to capture Pythias and Arcanos. The crisis comes when...

DEATH BY INVITATION—Anamorphic 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...

(1933) Sidney Blackmer, Peggy Shannon, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Samuel S. Hinds, Edward Van Sloan.  Almost 90 years later this sci-fi classic still packs a punch.  Strange events in Earth’s atmosphere cause monstrous storms and tidal waves that overrun the Earth.  The destruction of New York City is one of the most memorable...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and horror double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is P. F. Costello’s “The Devil Downstairs.” All hell was about to break loose.  Old Scratch, the Prince of Darkness, Lord of the Flies, Lucifer, Satan—THE DEVIL HIMSELF—was nothing like the red, pitchfork-baring imp of lore, but was a putrid beast of green whose small body was covered in gnarled hair.  The second novel is “Invaders from the Dark” by Weird Tales veteran Greye La Spina.  She had the attributes of horror itself:  devilish eyes that glittered like an unholy garnet in the dark...

(1946) Pierre Fresnay, Fernand Ledoux, Andrée Clément, Thérèse Dorny, Pierre Juvenet, Albert Rémy, Robert Seller.  This French crime-drama is simply brilliant.  Fresnay is an infamous criminal who escapes from a shootout with the police.  He’s picked up on the road by a self-made millionaire who’s returning home to his only living relative, an aunt, whom he hasn’t seen since he was a child.  The car crashes and...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Devil’s Henchmen” by John Oldrey is the 45^th installment of our “Lost World-Lost Race Classics” series.  A diabolical weapon had fallen into the hands of a madwoman!  Queen Phorenis was the ruthless ruler of Nawar, a lost kingdom in the wilds of the Middle East.  She looked upon men as being the playthings and pawns for her wicked...

(1973, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Andrés Resino, Geneviève Robert, Dennis Price, Rosa Palomar, Howard Vernon.  A dying politician summons an attorney to his death bed to reveal that two imprisoned lovers, who were earlier convicted of murder, are actually...

(1969) John Carradine, Regina Torné, Miguel Ángel Álvarez, Guillermo Zetina, Andrés García.  The late Dr. Jekyll's daughter returns home to help out her guardian, who also happens to be a mad scientist (Carradine) searching for a formula for eternal youth...  

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel’s first tale is Berkeley Livingston’s “Dimensions Unlimited.” They had an all-expenses paid trip to another dimension!  The second great tale is “The Quest in Time” written by all-time science fiction great, Edmond Hamilton. They were time traveling for ancient treasure...

(1977) Jeremy Clyde, David Robb, Ania Marson, John Justin, Esmond Knight, Jonathan Hyde.  Two wandering young men meet a strange, beautiful woman at a rustic European inn.  Her name is Dorabella.  One of the men (Clyde) falls in love with her to the point of total enchantment.  The two adventurers follow her from inn to inn, a wake of horror left in her path...

TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD (1972, Anamorphic Widescreen) Caesar Burner, Lone Fleming, Joseph Thelman.  Members of a weird cult are blinded by crows and put to death for sacrificing women. SEVEN DEATHS IN THE CAT’S EYE (1972, Anamorphic) Jane Birkin, Hiram Kelly, Francoise Christophe, Anton Diffring.  A horrible beast is on the loose!  It slaughters people in a small, remote village in Scotland...

THE DEVIL’S AGENT (1961, Anamorphic) Peter Van Eyck, Christopher Lee, Macdonald Carey, Marianne Koch.   Former wartime Intel officer Van Eyck runs into his old pal, Lee, who takes him to his mansion for a fishing excursion. THE FACE OF THE FROG (1959, Anamorphic) Carl Lange, Joachim Fuchsberger, Siegfried Lowitz, Eddi Arent. An American detective becomes involved in a series of ghastly crimes. The only clue is the mysterious seal of the White Frog... 

BLOOD DEMON (1967, Anamorphic) Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor, Carl Lange.  Barker sentences Lee, the evil Count Regula, to death for slaying 12 virgins.  Many years later, Lee returns from the dead to claim revenge on Barker’s son. THE HUNCHBACK OF SOHO (1968, Anamorphic) Gunther Stoll, Pinkas Braun, Monika Peitsch. Terrifying things are happening around the grounds of an old castle, within which is a boarding house for delinquent girls...