Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a great illustrated edition of that space opera classic, “The Black Star Passes” by one of the early masters of science fiction, John W. Campbell.  It was three against the stars!  A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention… 

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  William Hope Hodgson's "The Boats of the Glen Carrig" is the twenty-first installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  An early classic of adventure and horror!  It is one of the strangest sea-faring horror tales ever told and was admired greatly by horror fiction legend, H. P. Lovecraft.

THE BURNING COURT—Widescreen Edition (1962) Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Edith Scob. Finally—a beautiful widescreen edition of this horror-mystery classic!  A most interesting combination of “old dark house" and “witch’s curse” themes.  Scob plays the lovely descendant of an ancient witch who was wronged by her lover, and whose descendants she cursed...

CARNIVAL OF ILLUSIONS (1946 aka DEVIL AND THE ANGEL) Erich Von Stroheim, Madeleine Sologne, Louis Salou, Yves Vincent, Claudine Dupuis.  This is one of the great Von Stroheim films.  He was billed as the “man you love to hate,” but in this film he gave one of his most sympathetic roles as a prim and proper currency expert at a government mint, whose life spirals into desperation and crime...

CAT & MOUSE (1958) Lee Patterson, Ann Sears, Hilton Edwards, Victor Maddern, Stuart Saunders.  Patterson (from Jack the Ripper) is truly detestable as a shiftless army deserter who blackmails a young lady (Sears) into revealing the hiding place of some jewels stolen by her father some twenty years before...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  This double features two tales of futuristic military conflict.  The first novel is another Edmond Hamilton classic, “Cities in the Air.” It’s typical of Hamilton’s great work from the 1930s.  The second novel, “The War of the Planets” is authored by one of Edmond Hamilton’s contemporaries, Harl Vincent...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is the first of a three-part series by S. J. Byrne, “Colossus.”  The second novel is Robert Moore Williams’ chilling sci-fi horror tale, “Isle of Doom”...

COUNTERBLAST (1948) Mervyn Johns, Robert Beatty, Nova Pilbeam.  Grim germ warfare sci-fi thriller about an escaped WWII Nazi doctor and his sinister plot to bring the Nazis into world domination.  He murders and then impersonates an Australian doctor so he can work on his devilish plans right in the heart of a small English town.  His objective:  to use a new super-disease against Germany’s enemies...

DANGER IN THE MIDDLE EAST (1960) Françoise Arnoul, Rosanna Schiaffino, Michel Piccoli, François Patrice, Claude Cerval.  This well-made intrigue thriller (7.3 on IMDB!) is about career criminal who dies while trying to pull one last coup before retiring.  He dies with knowledge of secret papers that are worth a fortune.  And so the hunt begins...

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 DESIGNATED VICTIM—Widescreen (1971) Tomas Milian, Pierre Clémenti, Katia Christine, Marisa Bartoli.  An oddball count becomes friends with a frustrated businessman.  Together they work out a scheme in which the count will bump off the businessman’s loveless wife, while the businessman will rub out the Count’s unpleasant brother... 

THE DEVIL CAME FROM AKASAVA (1970) Fred Williams, Soledad Miranda, Horst Tappert, Ewa Strömberg, Howard Vernon, directed by Jesus Franco.  A mineral is discovered that can turn metal to gold and humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen, secret agents are sent in to get it back.  One of them is the beautiful Soledad Miranda, who poses as an exotic dancer while trying to track down the criminals who stole the mineral.  Williams was the big star of this film, but he is overshadowed by the beauty and persona of Miranda, who died tragically shortly after this film was completed.  English subs.  Great color, 35mm.  

THE DEVIL PLAYS (1931) Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas E. Jackson, Dorothy Christy.  This quickie was distributed by the king of poverty row murder mysteries, Chesterfield Pictures.  In a nutshell, the film deals with a murder mystery that takes place over one long weekend at an expensive mansion...

DEVILMAN STORY—Widescreen Edition (1967) Guy Madison, Luisa Baratto, Diana Lorys.  Madison is a journalist who gets involved in the search for a leading brain surgeon, who has mysteriously disappeared.  The search takes him to the African desert where they discover Devilman.  Devilman’s plans are simple: using a new brain-transplanting procedure, he intends to rule the world...

(1978) John Phillip Law, Florinda Bolkan, Guido Wieland.  Law is an engineer entrusted with surveying properties in and around a small Austrian village to determine the future sight of a factory.  This means casting many villagers off their land.  Unfortunately, he doesn’t know that the village is protected by a warlock and his witch daughter, who make things more than a little unpleasant for him with their supernatural powers...  

DOUBLE EXPOSURE (1953) John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh, dir. by John Gilling.  This is a nifty little crime film about a photograph that catches what is deemed to be a suicide, only—you guessed it—it’s not really a suicide, but murder!  Dant! Dant! Dah!  And of course, the photographer soon discovers she’s being stalked by the killer...