JULIUS CAESAR AGAINST THE PIRATES—Widescreen Edition (1962) Gustavo Rojo, Abbe Lane, Gordon Mitchell.  Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiracy against him.  When he’s out to sea he’s taken prisoner by pirates headed by Mitchell, who is at his snarling bad guy best and nearly steals the show.  Later comes the big faceoff between young Julius and the pirate hordes... 

THE KASHMIRI RUN (1969) Pernell Roberts, Alexandra Bastido, Julián Mateos, Gloria Cámara, Leonard Bell.  Post-Bonanza Roberts plays a former mountaineer hiding out in the wilds of Tibet.  Ahead of an onslaught by Chinese troops, who have occupied most of Tibet, Roberts tries to smuggle a noted scientist and a good-looking girl (of course) across the border to safety...

KILINK IN ISTANBUL (1967) Irfan Atasoy, Pervin Par, Suzan Avci, Muzaffer Tema.  Kilink is this sinister villain in a weird skeleton suit.  He’s brought back from the dead at the beginning of the movie so he can search for a secret formula that will allow him to basically destroy the world and rule over the tatters that are left behind...  

THE KILLER IS ON THE TELEPHONE—WIDESCREEN EDITION (1972) Telly Savalis, Anne Heywood, Giorgio Piazza, Osvaldo Ruggieri.  Beautiful Anne Heywood plays a woman whose husband was murdered five years before.  She is stalked, though, by the killer (Savalis) who wants to rub her out and end her threat as a potential witness against him... 

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Frank Aubrey's "The King of the Dead" is the twentieth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  A lost city where the dead come alive!  In this lost citadel lived a forgotten race whose people practiced weird sciences and dabbled in a strange form of magic...

LADY IN THE DEATH HOUSE (1944, PRC) Lionel Atwill, Jean Parker, Douglas Fowley, Marcia May Jones.  This is a PRC one-week wonder with Parker on death row for murdering the man who blackmailed her family.  She claims the whole thing was a set-up.  In a strange twist of fate, her fiancé, (who’s a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead!) also happens to be the executioner at the prision...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, “Last Call from Sector 9G” is penned by noted science fiction author Leigh Brackett.  This tale deals with an agent who is caught in the middle of a tangled web of interplanetary intrigue that sends him deep into outer space.  The second novel is one of veteran sci-fi writer H. Beam Piper’s very best tales, “Time Crime.”  

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic horror and fantasy double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, Thorp McClusky’s “Loot of the Vampire” is a real chiller from the pages of Weird Tales.  Jim Harmon’s chiller “The Man Who Made Maniacs” is the second novel...

A LUST FOR DYING (1960, WIDESCREEN EDITION) Annette Stroyberg, Elsa Martinelli, Mel Ferrer. One of the many filmed versions of Lefanu’s classic vampire tale, Carmilla.  Stroyberg is excellent as the Carmilla character and Ferrer comes on strong as Leopoldo Karnstein.  Our beautiful widescreen video master runs just shy of 79 minutes--5 minutes longer than the IMDB running time... 

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is a tale of the far-off future, “The Man the Tech-Men Made” by veteran sci-fi writer, Fox B. Holden.  The second novel is tale of interplanetary war, “A World He Never Made” by Edwin Benson...

MARIA MAGDALENE (1958) Yvonne De Carlo, Jorge Mistral, Terrence Hill, Rossana Podestà, Massimo Serato. This Peplum epic tells the story of Mary Magdalene (De Carlo) and the twisted paths between her Jewish and Roman lovers.  Hill plays the Jewish noble who befriends the rebel Barrabas; while Mistral is the dashing Roman officer who captures De Carlo’s heart...  

When Hugo Gernsback founded Amazing Stories in 1926, he included the works of the great H. G. Wells.  Gernsback reprinted many of Wells’ best science fiction short stories.  So in this collection, in the exact chronological order in which they appeared, is the complete run of the Amazing Stories-H. G. Wells science fiction short story legacy, all with their wonderful original illustrations...

In our third volume of Robert Silverberg Ace Double novels you get “Invaders from Earth,” a great tale about an outer space scam gone horribly wrong.  In “Collision Course,” the discovery of another, more-advanced race shakes the very foundations of humanity.  “The Silent Invaders” throws one man into the middle of a three-pronged conflict threatening Earth...

MINOTAUR, WILD BEAST OF CRETE—Widescreen Edition (1960) Bob Mathias, Rosanna Schiaffino, Alberto Lupo, Rik Battaglia.  King Minos sacrifices the 'required' number of virgins to the monstrous Minotaur.  But as his wife is dying, she confesses that their daughter has a twin whom she has hidden away to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur... 

MISSION PHANTOM (1967) Fernando Sancho, Eduardo Fajardo, Ingrid Schoeller.  If you don’t take this film too seriously, you’ll probably love it.  A shoddy band of “free souls” from a variety of countries and backgrounds are gathered together to pull off what seems to be a clearly "impossible" caper.  This involves breaking into a highly-guarded place with seemingly impenetrable security...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel “Mistress of Machine-Age Madness” is white-knuckle ride by science fiction master, Jack Williamson. The second novel, “The Impossibles,” is by two well-known veteran science fiction writers, Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer...

MORGIANA (1972) Iva Janzurová, Josef Abrhám, Nina Divísková, Petr Cepek, Josef Somr.  Klara and Viktoria are sisters, both very different from each other. When their father dies, he leaves most of his property to Klara. Naturally this doesn’t go over to well with Viktoria, and when Klara falls in love with the man that her sister loves, Viktoria comes up with a sinister plot to kill her...

MURDER AT THE BASKERVILLES (1937 aka SILVER BLAZE) Arthur Wontner, Ian Flemming, Lyn Harding, John Turnbull, Judy Gunn, Robert Horton, Minnie Raynor.  Sherlock Holmes goes on holiday and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville.  Before long his holiday turns into a grisly double murder mystery...