Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a great paperback edition of that space opera class, “The Fire People” by one of the masters of early science fiction, Ray Cummings.  It was a fiery invasion from another planet!  No one could have suspected that Earth was in mortal danger...

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 CAT OF THE CURSED SWAMP—Widescreen Edition (1967) Ryôhei Uchida, Kôtarô Satomi, Kyoko Mikage, Hiroshi Nawa, Tatsuo Matsumura.  In ancient Japan, a treasonous underling overthrows his master.  He buries his former boss, alive, inside a wall.  When he takes after the wife, she drowns herself in a nearby swamp along with her cat, thus cursing the swamp for all time...

THE GHOST OF CHIBUSA ENOKI  (1958) Akira Nakamura, Katsuko Wakasugi, Asao Matsumoto, Hiroshi Ayukawa, Keiko Hasegawa.  This is another Kaidan-style ghost story in which the apprentice of a famous artist rapes the artist’s wife and eventually murders the artist himself, as well as their servants!  The ghost of these tortured souls soon come calling for revenge...

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 GREAT WALL—Widescreen Edition (1962) Shintarô Katsu, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Utsui, Hiroshi Kawaguchi.  The time is 221 BC. The place is ancient China.  Warlord Qin Shihuangdi becomes emperor and rules over most of China. This lavish epic depicts the history of Qin's exploits, including the building of the Great Wall.  It’s filled with action and intrigue in the best traditions of epic filmmaking...

HAUNTED PALACE (1949) Shaw Desmond, Helene Coomey. This featurette is a ghost story vignette. Plus:  WHO KILLED DOC ROBBIN? (1948) Virginia Grey, George Zucco, Don Castle.  Zucco is his sinister self again in this entertaining chiller about a killer ape who terrorizes a gang of kids in a haunted mansion...

HERCULES AND THE TREASURE OF THE INCAS—Widescreen Edition (1964) Alan Steel, Mario Petri, Toni Sailer, Wolfgang Lukschy. This film was originally supposed to be a peplum film, but because of the success of A Fistful of Dollars, the script was changed to a mostly western setting, though there are still definitely moments of peplum action, especially toward the end when Steel yanks his shirt off...

This is the first of two Horror Gems collections celebrating the classic works of “The Unique Magazine,” Weird Tales, featuring Seabury Quinn and others.  The year was 1923 when tales took a turn for the weird with the launch of the world’s first genre pulp magazine, Weird Tales; and here we have a collection of the weirdest and most spine tingling of the first year...

This is the second of two Horror Gems collections celebrating the classic works of Weird Tales, the Best of 1923, Part Two, Otis Adelbert Kline and others.  With so many great tales to cull from the annals of Weird Tales’ inaugural year, there was just no way they could all be contained in one volume, so we’ve collected more of those delectable 1923 fright stories to help you lose plenty of sleep at night...  

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Fourteen" has more fright night fodder.  If you’re one of those people who like to sit around and read scary stories on a dark, dreary, windy, stormy night, then this collection is definitely for you.  It’s filled with a variety of different terrors—all succulent and done to a turn...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Fourteen" is our latest collection of sinister stories by some of horror’s top-of-the-line authors:  Robert Bloch, Manly Banister, Theodore Sturgeon, Allison V. Harding, Manly Wade Wellman, Carl Jacobi, and others...

I AM A CRIMINAL (1938, Monogram) John Carroll, Kay Linaker, Craig Reynolds, Martin Spellman, Lester Matthews.  Carroll is a gangster that the local DA (Matthews) wants to lock up and then throw away the key.  After going through a series of intriguing events, Carroll ends up jumping bail and hiding from the cops in a mountain resort...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Richard Tooker's "Inland Deep, Illustrated Edition" is the eighteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Clues from the forgotten past led them to an unknown world of terror.  A footprint had been found; a footprint only part human...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels and short stories, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s one of the true early classics of science fiction, penned by noted sci-fi author John W. Campbell, called “Invaders from the Infinite.” The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, are challenged by the most ruthless aliens in all the universes...

THE ISLAND MONSTER (1954) Boris Karloff, Franca Marzi, Renato Vicario, Patricia Remiddi.  This often-maimed Karloff thriller really isn’t all that bad if you can get past the fact that Karloff’s voice is dubbed by someone else.  A law enforcement agent heads to a small Italian island to break up a drug smuggling ring.  Things get complicated when the smugglers kidnap his daughter...