ONCE IN A NEW MOON (1934) Eliot Makeham, Rene Ray, Morton Selten.  A dead star approaches Earth.  As it passes by, some kind of gravitational pull breaks off a small chunk of the Earth and hurls it into space, where it becomes a new small moon of sorts.  There’s a little coastal town on that chunk, but it takes a while for the villagers to figure out what the hell’s going on...

ONE MINUTE BEFORE DEATH (1972) Wanda Hendrix, Barry Coe, Gisele MacKenzie.  This movie is often mistaken as an alternate title for The Oval Portrait, but it’s not.  It’s an entirely different film, shot by the same production unit.  Family relatives (we won’t say which) conspire to murder a rich widow (Hendrix) by putting her into a catatonic state and burying her alive...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Here’s a great paperback edition of that science fiction classic, “Operation: Outer Space” by the master of space opera, Murray Leinster.  They were alone and together among the stars!  A terrifying darkness engulfed the sky while on the horizon a fire flood consumed the Mountain!  The ship swayed again...

(1961) Terrance Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Diana Clare, Felicity Young.  When a reporter’s brother falls to his death from a Cambridge college window, he makes his way from the United States back to England to find out exactly what happened.  Was it suicide?  The reporter thinks not and sets out to not only prove it was murder, but to bring the killer to justice...

THE OVAL PORTRAIT (1973) Wanda Hentrix, Barry Coe, Gisele MacKenzie, Barney O’Sullivan, Maray Ayres.  This Civil War period piece horror film starts with a mother and daughter arriving at a mysterious mansion for the reading of a will.  It’s a dark, creepy night.  The daughter sees a ghostly image upon arrival and soon becomes possessed by the spirit of her dead cousin, whose picture hangs on a mansion wall... 

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  F. Van Wyck Mason's "Phalanxes of Atlans" is the twenty-fourth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  A lost world in the wilds of the Arctic!  Only in dim legends did mankind remember Atlantis and the Lost Tribes, that is, until Victor Nelson's extraordinary adventure into the Arctic unknown...

(1961) William Franklyn, Moira Redmond, Bruno Barnabe, Leonard Sachs, Nigel Green.  Near an old, derserted bombsite, a young child discovers a man lying unconscious.  When the boy awakens him, the man discovers he can’t remember anything from the past three weeks!  Adding to all the mystery, he finds out that his wife’s private detective has been murdered and that his company’s safe has been opened and emptied...

THE PIT (1962) Brian Peck, Burt Letts, Dave Lloyd.  A grim retelling of Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” like you never seen before.  This  is perhaps the most horrific of any filmed version of the Poe classic with many shocks.  If you’re looking for a happy ending, forget it! The masterful B&W photography is atmospheric and terrifying down to the final seconds...  

THE PORTRAIT (1948) Otomar Krejca, Ljuba Skorepová, Karel Dostal.   Dostal plays the personification of evil, a quintessential example of what we loved in actors like Lugosi, Karloff, Lorre, and others.  Knowing he is dying, he hires an artist to paint his portrait.  He wants the spirit of his black-hearted soul to be captured on canvas so that his spirit might live on after death...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels and short stories, complete with original illustrations.  It’s more classic space opera with the Zoromes!  We love Neil R. Jones’ Professor Jameson stories.  They are some of the best space opera stories ever written.  Our fourth volume of the good professor’s escapades includes three more classic tales... 

THE REBEL’S SON (1938) Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell, Roger Livesey. In the 16th century the Cossacks revolt against the Polish government.  They are led by Taras Bulba, played brilliantly by Baur.  Just as good is Bushell in the role of his educated but wayward son.  The final battle scenes are terrific and the climactic confrontation between Baur and Bushell is very memorable...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is an outer space tale of intrigue and revenge, “Return of Creegar” by David Wright O’Brien.  The second novel is Mark Clifton’s wonderful tale of the future, “Eight Keys to Eden”...

RIP VAN WYK (1960, aka RIP VAN WINKLE) Jamie Uys, Wynona Cheyney, Willem Loots.  This movie has little to do with the Rip Van Winkle story.  It’s actually a time travel movie. Set in 1859, Uys hurtles 100 years into the future.  He awakens, un-aged, in 1959—a strange, modern world.  The film gives a very interesting perspective about how someone from the past would react to all things modern—automobiles, radios, TVs, clothing, etc...

ROOM 43 (1958) Diana Dors, Eddie Constantine, Herbert Lom.  Dors plays a shady lady trying to scam enough cash to pay for plastic surgery for her sister, who had acid thrown in her face by her pimp!  Eddie’s a cab driver who tries to help them out of their jam, falling for Dors during the process.  This film is loaded with sleazy, seductive dialogue with moments of action thrown in for good measure...

SCHALCKEN THE PAINTER (1979) Jeremy Clyde, Maurice Denham.  It is amazing to see Clyde, a former British Invasion heart-throb (Yes…Chad and Jeremy!) giving an outstanding performance in a marvelous gothic horror film.  Based on the J. Sheridan LeFanu (the man who gave us Carmilla) short story of the same name. A lovely maiden (Kennedy) disappears after being forced into marriage with a mysterious man...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  Enjoy our fifteenth collection of Science Fiction Gems, which features some great fiction by brilliant writers.  These stories are a pretty brilliant group—a real nice batch to cozy up to...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories.  Enjoy our twelfth collection of Science Fiction Gems.  This is our fourteenth science fiction anthology and it’s got some great tales by some great authors, including Isaac Asimov, Robert Moore Williams, Henry Slesar, Fletcher Pratt, David H. Keller, Rog Phillips and others...

Armchair Fiction presents classic horror and fantasy double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is a Fritz Leiber science-fantasy, “Scylla’s Daughter.”  Sword and sorcery heroes Gray Mouser and Fafhrd are back again for more fantastic adventures.  The outer space adventure, “Terrors of Arelli” by Aladra Septama is the second novel.  They were trapped on a planet of tentacled death...