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...

TORMENTED (1960) Richard Carlson, Julia Redding, Lugene Sanders.  Carlson plays a husband-to-be who's haunted by the ghost of his large breasted ex-girlfriend whom he allowed to fall to her death from atop a lighthouse.  PLUS:  HANDS OF A STRANGER (1962) James Stapleton, Paul Lukather, Joan Harvey.  A dead murderer's hands are grafted to a pianist who has lost his own hands in an accident...

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...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel, “The Exile of the Skies” is a grand epic of space opera by Richard Vaughan.  He was an outcast in the endless abyss of space, bounding from one distant planet to another, colliding with a myriad of alien creatures.  The second novel is “Abduction” by Steve Frazee  What would you do if you were abducted by a flying saucer and no one believed you...?  

Armchair Fiction presents science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The lead-off novel is a rollicking tale by Ray Cummings, “Explorers into Infinity.”  Through an instrument called the myrdoscope, Brett Gryce a distant world, lost in the black immensity of space.  The second novel “Design for Doomsday” is a great sci-fi adventure tale written by Bryce Walton.  The Martian prison was be a cruel and cold place in the post-Solar War era...

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...

Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. “Frenzy” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, by James O. Causey.  Shannon...she was a slut with a body like flame—hell’s own angel—wrapped up in murder and mayhem  This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of murder and crime, “In this Corner—Death” by Emile C. Tepperman.  It was a good deed turned into a nightmare...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is David Wright O’Brien’s unusual science-fantasy, “Furlough from Eternity.”  Can one journey back from the dead?  The second novel is Berkeley Livingston’s “Invasion of the Plant Men.”  Smoldering in a “garden” were the seeds of a diabolical alien invasion...

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...

THE GOLD EXPRESS (1955) Vernon Gray, Ann Walford, May Hallatt, Patrick Boxill, Ivy St. Helier, John Serret.  Gray plays a handsome reporter who, along with his new bride, are about to embark on their honeymoon when he is assigned to cover a story on express train loaded with a fortune in gold.  Unknown to all is that there are crooks on board with a devious plot to...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “The Guilty Bystander” by hard-boiled expert Mike Brett.  The second novel is a the suspenseful "Blood of My Brotehr," by Stephen Marlowe...