Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The House on Stilts” by R. H. Hazard is the 42nd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Jack Smith was a real go-get-‘em reporter and loved the work he did for his newspaper.  His latest assignment was covering the escapades of a big shot criminal named Varney.  Jack knew the story would be a front-page splash if...

(1933) Conrad Veidt, Madeline Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Edmund Gwenn, Gerald du Maurier.  This is a tremendous spy movie with a marvelous cast.  Carroll plays a nurse in occupied German territory who’s sending top secret info back to the British.  Things become disconcerting when she has to treat the wounds of soldiers injured because of her covert activities...

(1935) Anton Walbrook, Eugen Klöpfer, Sybille Schmitz, Marieluise Claudius, Max Gülstorff.  Although there is a subplot involving a jealous husband and a love triangle, the plot basically concerns a taxi driver, Walbrook, who has to deal with a shot-up corpse in the backseat of his cab.  Suspecting he might be blamed for the killing, he assumes the man’s identity...

(1954) Arthur Kennedy, Constance Smith, Joy Shelton, Jack Allen, James Carney, Cameron Hall.  Kennedy play an American realtor living an unexciting life in England.  Adventure falls into his lap, though, on a weekend when his wife is out of town and he meets up with a gorgeous dame...

(1975, Anamorphic Widescreen Edition) Alex Cord, Dame Judith Anderson, Michael Craig, Joseph Furst, Tony Bonner.   At a sinister old inn, the elderly owners have a habit of bumping off their guests in grisly fashion...

(1943) Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Robert Le Vigan, Arthur Devere, Albert Remy, Germaine Kerjean.  Rollin plays a long lost member of the “Groupi” family who has been called home to the family manor in the French countryside to marry his beautiful young cousin.  Before long he finds himself victimized by various family members, partly for fun, partly from hatred...

(1973) Stratford Johns, Frank Windsor, Frank Duncan, Jean Hilton.  A superb six-part Brit mini-series (on two discs).  Johns and Windsor play two modern detectives who set out to reconstruct the various Ripper murders and prove the killer’s identity.  They have their writing board with all the victims’ names on it.  It’s done in a “Dragnet style” police procedural manner, with... 

(1937) Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, John Loder, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Arthur Sinclair, Sydney Fairbrother, Robert Adams. In our opinion this is the best of the many filmed versions of the H. Rider Hagard classic. Some truly spectacular lost world-lost race thrills as Hardwicke (as Allan Quartermain) leads an expedition in search of Lee's father who has wandered across the desert to the far mountains where no one returns from...alive...

(1959) Shigeru Amachi, Takashi Wada, Junko Ikeuchi.   This was one of the first Japanese horror films with a modern setting.  A young woman is celebrating her birthday with friends.  Her boyfriend, a journalist, tells of a mysterious woman who is lurking about the grounds.  The woman turns out to be the girl’s mother, who disappeared many years before but hasn’t aged a day.  What is her fantastic secret...?  

1971 aka VAMPIROS LESBOS) Soledad Miranda, Ewa Strömberg, Dennis Price, Paul Muller, directed by Jesus Franco.  Strömberg plays a lawyer lured to a strange island owned by Miranda, who is a lesbian vampire and the heir to the estate of Count Dracula.  Price plays a demented doctor seeking to become a vampire himself, while Muller is the vampire expert...

(1924, Fox) Earle Foxe, Grace Cunard, Gladys Tennyson, Maurice Murphy.  A lost sci-fi classic finally makes it to DVD!  In the future year of 1940, a young man, having been rejected by a girl and gone off to be a hermit in a redwood forest, doesn’t realize that men around the world are dying from a new disease called "Masculitis." By 1950, the dreadful plague has killed every male over the age of fourteen except our hermit hero... 

 (1969) Philippe Leroy, Dagmar Lassander, Lorenza Guerrieri, Varo Soleri.  This has become kind of a cult classic over the years.  Leroy, who was wonderfully delightful in the Seven Golden Men films, plays, with much conviction, a sadistic millionaire with a penchant for degrading women.  It’s all part of his elaborate S&M fantasies, in which he abducts beautiful young women...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Light in the Sky” by Herbert Clock and Eric Boetzel is the 41st installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Invaded by the Spanish, Tizoc and his people were forced to flee.  With his people’s numbers so few, there was no hope of fighting back.  Their home, as they once knew it, was destroyed...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Our lead off novel is one of grand adventure by one of the early 20th Century’s most heralded authors, Otis Adelbert Kline’s “Lord of the Lamia.”  An ancient and sinister magic lurked in Cairo!  The second novel is one of great conflict and outer space drama, Clinton Constantinescu’s “The War of the Universe.”  There soon came a...

(1958) Dato Danelia, V. Djodjua, Manana Londaridze, Otar Koberidze.  A classic spectacle film with a 7.1 IMDB rating.  This is the story of Khvicha, a young boy from a Georgian (Russian) village is kidnapped, sold into slavery, and raised as a Mamluk warrior in far off Egypt.  He is reunited with his childhood friend (also kidnapped), only to be torn apart again...

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic Mystery-Crime novels. David V. Reed's "The Metal Monster Murders" is truly one of the most unique murder mysteries you will ever read.  It crawled from the humid, fetid swamp of Jamaica Bay into the depths of refuse metal in a junkyard on the outskirts of New York...

(1961) Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Diane Clare, Robertson Hare.  A college student falls to his death from his window when he encounters an intruder in his room...

(1959) Jeanne Rainer, Ronald Long, Art Koulias, Frances Hammond. In what is clearly a set-up by corrupt police officials, a pretty young model ends up stuck in a small town sheriff’s office, unable to pay for a traffic violation.  When a pudgy businessman arrives—also caught for speeding—he offers to pay her fine, which she thankfully accepts.  Little does she know that her recompense will throw her into a sordid life as an escort girl...