(1939) Pierre Fresnay, Marie Bell, Micheline Francey, Louis Jovet, Jean Mercanton, Robert Le Vigan.  The spirits of those who die at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve are condemned to drive the “Death Cart” for an entire year.  This horse-drawn cart is what takes human souls to meet their maker, and the cart’s creaky sound is heard by those who are about to die...

(1968) Mauro Parenti, Lucretia Love, Gordon Mitchell, John Karlsen.   The title character is a masked superhero very much in the mold as Diabolik.  There’s a great pre-credit sequence where he takes on a shipload of drug dealers.  Our hero then pops in and out the rest of the way as he searches for a magical golden relic, all the while trying to keep the bad guys from looting King Tut’s treasures...  

(1952) Mesiha Yelda, Turan Seyfioglu, Cahit Irgat.  This epic Turkish action thriller starts off with the main hero (Seyfioglu) meeting up with  Genghis Khan, whom he helps in his battle against an adversarial warlord.   The Khan is grateful for this (he saves the Khan’s life) and wants Seyfioglu’s allegiance, offering him a spot as one of his top lieutenants.  But Seyfioglu refuses and wanders through a series of swashbuckling adventures...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is by veteran science fiction author Paul Ernst, “Rulers of the Future.”  They spiraled through time and across the Universe.  The second novel is “Pursuit,” written by all-time sci-fi great, Lester del Rey.  He was relentlessly chased…but by what...?

(1960) Joel Rinne, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Leo Riuttu. This is a good old-fashioned closed room murder mystery.  The world famous Lieutenant Palmu is brought in to investigate when a much-despised millionaire playboy is found dead in his interior pool—murdered.  Who is the killer?  There are some nice tongue-in-cheek moments thrown into this well-made murder thriller...

(1955, aka THE HINDU) Boris Karloff, Victor Jory, Reginald Denny, Nino Marcel, June Foray, Lou Krugman, Peter Coe.  A lavish color adventure about a man who becomes involved with a strange cult that worships a weird fire demon.  In India, a young elephant trainer vows revenge against the cult that killed his family and, when the local Maharajah refuses to help, sets out alone to battle his enemy...

(1975) Kim Novak, Doug McClure, Alejandro Rey, Jim Davis.  McClure and his Coast Guard helicopter pal come upon a shipwreck in an area known as “the Devil’s Triangle.”  When McClure is lowered to the ship he finds dead bodies all over the place.  The only survivor is a beautiful blonde (Kim Novak), who’s in a confused state of mind.  Little does McClure suspect that the evil power that caused all the deaths will soon return... 

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  Blast off with this, our seventeenth great collection of Science Fiction Gems, which features a terrific batch of tales by many of the top writers from science fiction’s past: Raymond Z. Gallun, Roger Dee, David H. Keller, Randall Garrett, Wallace West, & others.  

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  It’s time for our sixteenth collection of vintage Science Fiction Gems, filled to the brim with great tales by top authors:  L. Sprague de Camp, Milton Lesser, Chad Oliver, Carl Jacobi, Rog Phillips, Stanley Mullen and more...  

(1936) Clive Brook, Victoria Hopper, Malcom Keen, Nora Swinburne.  Brook plays a drunken socialite who crashes his car on a lonely coastal spot where a smuggling operation is underway.  The smugglers don’t take kindly to being to discovered and beat the daylights out of him.  Later on he stumbles into a relationship with a girl who happens to be the brother of one of the smugglers...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Mike Brett’s “Scream Street” is our first great tale of crime and mystery.  Late one evening at a traffic light, Sam Dakkers witnessed a woman on the receiving end of a vicious attack…  This second novel is another gritty murder mystery, “Murder Makes the Corpse” by Sean Gregory. 

(1963) Gerald Flood, Peter Williams, Stewart Guidotti, Denis Goacher, Richard Coleman, Delena Kidd.  A sequel to the earlier sci-fi mini-series “City Beneath the Sea,” again taking place in the undersea city of Aegira.  A journalist goes to the ocean floor to look for a rare metal known as “Phenicium,” which—as it turns out—is pretty vital for outer space research...

(1940) Cheryl Walker, Harold Daniels, Julian Madison, Phyllis Barry, Bobby Watson.  One of the better exploitation films of the late 1930s and early 1940s.  It shows what happens to young gals short on cash.  A young girl needs money for her dying mom and ends up as a “model” for a sculpture called, “Spirit of Youth.”  Later she gets smashed and let’s a sleazy playboy have his way with her... 

(1960) Noëlle Adam, Christian Marquand, Paul Guers.  Marquand plays a drifter with a huge gambling debt to pay.  To square things with his lenders he’s sent off on a dangerous journey.  Sadly, his sweetheart thinks he has deserted her and marries another!  After hearing of this he does the logical thing and joins the foreign legion...

(1959) Horst Buckholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid, Alf Marholm.  Buckholz gives the performance of his life as a human castoff, in international limbo, because of the loss of his passport.  He is conned into taking a job on a tramp steamer filled with misfits, smugglers, and murderers.  Soon after realizing his plight, he and his pal discover the ship’s cargo isn’t exactly what it’s purported to be...  

(1929) Mabel Poulton, Gibb McLaughlin, Arthur Pusey, Gerald Rawlinson. This forgotten British old dark house thriller would have been a perfect fit for one of the Forgotten Horrors books.  The setting is a creepy mansion filled with secret passageways, trap doors, snake pits, sliding floors, and secret rooms...

(1964) Robert Lamoureux, Robin Maugham, Allen Swift.  This is a “Mondo” type of film that chronicles modern day slave trade during the 1960s.  It’s centered mainly in Arabian and African countries that were under heavy Muslim rule. Much of the filming was done in public places using hidden cameras and crewmembers.  There are numerous scenes of violence, nudity, and even sex...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels.  Robert Moore Williams’ “Somebody Wants You Dead” is our first electric tale of murder and mayhem. This double novel’s second tale is another great thriller, “The Black Key” by M. Scott Michel.  It was a dream that held the secret to a killer’s identity...