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(1967) Hae Hwang, Ae-ran Jeong, Mi-ae Kang, Do Kum-Bong, No-shik Park.  This Asian chiller has all kinds of grisly stuff:  Acid thrown in the face, eyes being gouged out, the horror of drug addition, vengeful ghosts, etc.  The plot is pretty simple, a former geisha girl takes her life because she’s essentially lost her husband to the wanton lure of a servant girl.  But like in any good Asian ghost story, revenge is a must!  So...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “A Queen of Atlantis” by Frank Aubrey is the 40th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Aubrey, the author of “The Devil Tree of Eldorado,” (Armchair B-79) has ventured again to write a wild and romantic tale of adventure.  The gallant little ship Saucy Fan started from Liverpool for Rio de Janeiro, with a party of four lively young people...

(1954) Giuli Chokhonelidze, Konstantin Russu, Nodar Shashigoglu, directed by Sergei Parajanov.  A young shepherd is given a magic woodwind instrument to help him conquer his foes.  This movie is filled with dark fantasy and has its fair share of creepy moments.  Look for evil wizards, storm demons—even flying sheep...!  

(1961) Taina Elg, Pierre Brice, Alberto Lupo, Akim Tamiroff.  A Peplum classic, filled with many moments of magic and mysticism.  Thebes is suffering from a horrible drought.  To ward off this dry spell, the evil king is willing to sacrifice a young virgin to the god, Demeter. But the god Dionysus has different ideas, bringing to Thebes an onslaught of rain and sparing the girl’s life seconds before she is to be sacrificed...

(1970, Anamorphic Widescreen) Mikhail Pugovkin, Tatyana Klyuyeva, Georgiy Millyar, Anatoliy Kubatskiy, Lidiya Korolyova.  A magical underworld king demands that the Czar give up his only son upon his 18^th birthday.  The Czar attempts to fool the king with some tomfoolery involving identity-switching between his son and a “commoner.”  Complications arise when the daughter of the king...

(1940) Vlasta Burian, Antonin Mikulic, Meda Valentová.  A fine fantasy-comedy (7.1 on IMDB) with a tiny touch of horror.  There are many plot elements: clandestine marriages, secret children, castle ghosts, hush-hush love affairs, etc.—all woven together by great script-writing, resulting in many uproarious moments.  The scene where the town doctor visits the Baron’s castle...

(1944) Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Ronald Shiner, Jean Kent, Antoinette Cellier, Max Bacon, Joy Shelton. This appears to be the only Lost World-Lost Race musical comedy ever made.  We find it amazing that this film has escaped the eye of sci-fi and fantasy film historians for decades, because in spite of its primary musical and comedy themes, there’s no doubt of the film’s fantastic cinema trappings...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Cave of a Thousand Columns” by T. E. Grattan-Smith is the 39th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  "Beware when the mountain shakes!" was the dire warning old chief Bal-yari uttered as he handed Major Rogers a mystic token of his tribe...

(1935) Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Ben Field, Mary Clare, Jane Baxter, Felix Aylmer.  Rains is brilliant as a sideshow mind reader whose powers turn out to be real. Soon he is making a plethora of accurate predictions—deaths, accidents, horse racing results, etc.  However, he is unable to control his prophecies until he...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Dark Atlantis” by David Craigie is the 33rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  What deadly secrets awaited them in the ocean’s depths?  Professor Jules Frapillion craved adventure as much as his best friend, American adventurer, Rodney Harding, going so far as to create insane contraptions to go where no man had dared...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and horror double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is P. F. Costello’s “The Devil Downstairs.” All hell was about to break loose.  Old Scratch, the Prince of Darkness, Lord of the Flies, Lucifer, Satan—THE DEVIL HIMSELF—was nothing like the red, pitchfork-baring imp of lore, but was a putrid beast of green whose small body was covered in gnarled hair.  The second novel is “Invaders from the Dark” by Weird Tales veteran Greye La Spina.  She had the attributes of horror itself:  devilish eyes that glittered like an unholy garnet in the dark...

Armchair fiction presents Frank Aubrey's "The Devil-Tree of El Dorado, Illustrated Edition," our 30th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  HORROR SAT HIGH ATOP MT. RORAIMA!  Who is the mysterious person known only as “Monella?”  Who is he and what is the secret of his shrouded past?  Like all good Lost Race-Lost World novels, “The Devil-Tree of El Dorado” deals with an expedition to a remote corner of the Earth...  

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel’s first tale is Berkeley Livingston’s “Dimensions Unlimited.” They had an all-expenses paid trip to another dimension!  The second great tale is “The Quest in Time” written by all-time science fiction great, Edmond Hamilton. They were time traveling for ancient treasure...

The first disc of this Special Two-DVD Edition contains The Dream Doctor (1936) Julie Suedo Sidney Monckton.  This odd film tells tales of many different characters’ dream experiences and tries to explain them in a paranormal yet scientific way by a woman with strange powers.  The second disc includes A Trip to the Moon (1902) Georges Méliès, Victor André.  This is a short sci-fi classic from early cinema pioneer Méliès.  We've also thrown in trailers and two other short subjects, including Fall of the House of Usher and The Devil's Ball...

THE MAGIC SERPENT (1966, WIDESCREEN) Hiroki Matsukata, Tomoko Ogawa, Ryutaro Otomo.  In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by a treacherous lord and his sorcerer.  Years later, an epic battle ensues between the prince and the sorcerer.  PLUS:  THE WITCH (1966) Richard Johnson, Rossanna Schiaffino, Sarah Ferrati.  A young historian is brought to a magnificent palatial estate to assemble the largely erotic memoirs of a deceased general.  There he falls in love with a beautiful witch... 

ALIAS JOHN PRESTON (1956) Christopher Lee, Betta St. John, Alexander Knox.  Lee, tormented by bizarre, murderous dreams about a woman from his past, eventually transforms into a Jekyll and Hyde type with an urge to kill.  Knox is the psychological counsellor who tries who suspects something's amiss.  PLUS:  FRIGHT (1956) Eric Fleming, Nancy Malone, Dean Almquist.  This eerie film had a most unusual premise: a lady thinks she’s the reincarnation of an ancient prince’s elicit lover.  At the same time, a killer turns out to be the reincarnation of the prince!  Fleming Is the who tries to figure it all out—and solve some murders to boot!  

ALICE, OR THE LAST ESCAPADE (1977, Anamorphic) Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Ferdinand Ledoux, Francois Perrot. A woman drives through the night on a lonely road.  After a breakdown, she seeks help from a strange man and his butler who reside in a nearby creepy mansion.  FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON (1976, Anamorphic) Florinda Balkon, Klaus Kinski, John Karlsen, Peter McEnery. An astronaut is purposely left on the moon as part of a bizarre experiment... 

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Enchanted Stone” by Charles Lewis Hind is the 37th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  With a slight twist on the usual Lost World/Lost Race themes, this late Victorian adventure-romance is jam-packed with fantasy.  Within these pages, you will find a strange and weird tale told through the apprehensive journalist...

(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...

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Armchair fiction presents Eden Phillpotts' "The Golden Fetich," the 28th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Imagine being the son of a respected, seemingly well to do English lord, only to discover upon your father’s death that you had been left virtually penniless.  That’s what happened to Roy Meldrum, son of Lord Meldrum, whose philanthropy had left Roy’s inheritance nearly exhausted.  So with no money to his name...

(1939) Aleksandr Shchagin, Sergey Martinson, Olga Shaganova-Obraztsova, Georgiy Uvarov, Mikhail Dagmarov.  This marvelous Russian fantasy is similar to Pinocchio.  It’s a combination of live action and animation and it’s filled with fantastic characters and magical moments...

(1936) Harry Baur, Roger Karl, Charles Dorat, Germaine Aussey, Ferdinand Hart, Jany Holt.  It is a time of great persecution of the Jews by the Emperor (marvelously played by Baur) in Prague.  A rabbi has promised that the Golem—whose body is now hidden and dormant—will return for justice if things reach a breaking point...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Frank R. Stockton's "The Great Stone of Sardis" is the 26th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Written in 1898 but set in 1947, this science fiction thriller has two essential themes—to make the first successful journey to the North Pole, and to further discover just what kind of hidden secrets lay deep under the Earth’s crust...

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...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Eight, Algernon Blackwood & Others" features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre’s best...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Eleven" features another excellent anthology of stories by some of horror’s best writers, such as Thorp McClusky, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber and many others...

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...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Six" features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre’s best authors

Armchair Fiction presents paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories, complete with many original illustrations.  "Horror Gems, Vol. Ten" features a great selection of chillers by some of horrordom’s best, with grim tales to nourish the “twisted” part of the human mind...

Armchair Fiction presents paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories, complete with many original illustrations.  Here it is, the lucky 13^th Horror Gems collection, featuring ten tasty terrors to make you tremble.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these two great titles...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic horror short stories. "Horror Gems, Vol. Three" features a fine collection of tales by some of the genre’s best authors

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...

(1963, Upgraded 12/29/20) Zdenek Stepanek, Dana Medricka, Radovan Lukavsky. This special edition two-disc set contains the anamorphic widescreen foreign language version with English subtitles, and the flat screen American release version dubbed in English.  A spaceship full of explorers shoots across the galaxy toward a distant star. One of the film’s highlights is when they encounter...

(1945) Aleksandr Shirshov, Georgiy Millyar, Sergey Stolyarov, Galina Grigoreva.  An epic Russian fantasy with stunning B&W cinematography, full of adventure and derring do. The sets and special effects are beyond spectacular—truly one of the most visually impressive films you will ever see.  A pretty lass and a mighty warrior plan to marry.  Their plans go awry, though, when she’s kidnapped by...

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...  

(1942, Upgraded 10/14,21) Arthur Askey, Evelyn Dall, Al Burnett, Max Bacon, Peter Graves. This top comedy fantasy has a meek soldier saving his pals with a sword he believes to be Excalibur. Is it real?  The final scene has a real...

(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...

(1957, aka Ninjutsu Gozen-Jiai) Koji Arima, Sentarô Fushimi, Masao Hori. This supernatural thriller is about two feuding clans in ancient Japan.  Complicating things is a child who is taken hostage by one of the families.  In the film’s exciting climax, both families are represented by their top Ninja warriors.  The Ninja’s have a wide variety of uncanny powers, including invisibility and teleportation.  Also on hand are numerous horrific creatures...

Armchair fiction presents Roy Norton's "The Land of the Lost," our 25th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.   Alone in his hut, a man watched a needle begin its violent course across a moving cylinder. The instrument was a Seismograph and its vigilant attendant, Dr. Martinez, watched in horror. Martinez knew what the cryptic messagemeant—a massive undersea earthquake with monstrous tidal waves just hours away...

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...

(1952) Gennaro Pisano, Marilyn Buferd, William Tubbs, Giovanni Amato, Helen Tubbs.  A devil comes to Earth and bestows upon a photographer's camera the power to destroy any and all evildoers.  The photographer uses this “machine” selectively at first, but the more he uses it the more evil seems to pour out of people until at last he decides to destroy almost everyone in his village... 

THE MAGIC SERPENT—Widescreen Edition (1966) Hiroki Matsukata, Tomoko Ogawa, Ryutaro Otomo.  A young prince embarks on a quest to avenge the deaths of his parents, as well as a good wizard who had once saved his life.   An epic battle soon ensues between the prince and the sorcerer.  This is a beautiful production and there are enough giant monsters to make anyone happy...

(1950) Rade Markovic, Vera Ilic-Djukic, Milivoje Zivanovic, Marko Marinkovic.  Here’s another upper tier Euro-fantasy classic you’ll not soon forget.  It’s filled with incredible sets, wonderful characters, beautiful music, great B&W cinematography, etc.  All in all it’s a delightfully atmospheric film.  The scene is set quickly as a young boy stumbles into a crumbling, snow-covered castle atop a mountain spire, laden with skulls and cobwebs...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic horror and fantasy short story collections, complete with original illustrations. “Masters of Horror, Vol. Four: Arthur J. Burks, the Wizard of Weird Tales” contains fourteen superb tales of horror by another great Weird Tales alumnus...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic horror and fantasy short story collections.  "Allison V. Harding, the Forgotten Queen of Horror” features some of the best horror tales of the 1940s and 1950s.  Who was Allison V. Harding?  Not much is known about her personal life, but the one thing we do know is that you almost couldn’t pick up an issue of Weird Tales from 1943 through 1950 and not come across one of her stories...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic horror and fantasy short story collections.  Here it is…part one of the greatest collection of H. P. Lovecraft works ever put together, "H. P. Lovecraft, the Ultimate Illustrated Weird Tales Collection."  This incredible collection features the very best horror tales of H. P. Lovecraft, complete with their Weird Tales illustrations and publishing dates...  

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...

MEET MR. LUCIFER (1953) Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins, Jack Watling, Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson, Charles Victor, Ernest Thesiger.  In this unique fantasy, Holloway plays an aging actor who hates television and what it’s done to his stage career.  When he carelessly dies in a stage accident, the devil gives him a chance to return to the living...

(1948) Kirby Grant, Eddie Parkes, Jean Mowry, Joe Giles, Calvin Thomas.   This film was intended as a safety film, but it also comes off as a fantasy.  Grant plays a farmer whose life is saved from a tractor accident by his guardian angel (Parkes) who then meddles in his life, protecting him from his own stupidity...

(1981) Lucy McGrath, Paul Farrell, Lee Hatherly, Paul Jenden.  On Christmas Eve, a little girl awakens thinking she hears Santa Claus (Father Christmas) entering the house.  What she finds is a weird monster who pleads for her to help defeat an evil witch...

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...

(1935, Upgraded 11/27/22) Conrad Veidt, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier, Anna Lee, Beatrix Lehmann, John Turnbull, Cathleen Nesbit, Ronald Ward. You've simply never seen this wonderful British fantasy-drama from such a beautiful print. The setting is an old boardinghouse filled with a variety of people, all with different problems. They're lorded over by an evil, mephisto-like slum lord. The tenants' lives are changed forever by the arrival of a...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  “Reclaimers of the Ice” is an exciting tale by one of the early masters of 20^th Century science fiction, Stanton A. Coblentz.  They were stranded at the top of the world!  It was a fool’s dream to think that any man could do the impossible and conquer the world’s most desolate Arctic wasteland without consequence...

(1952) Mirja Mane, Toivo Makela, Hillevi Lagerstam, Sakari Jurkka. One of the most remarkable films we’ve seen in 30 years of business. An archaeological team unearths the body of an ancient witch an

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...

(1959, aka The Day the Earth Froze) Urho Somersalmi, Anna Orochko, Ivan Voronov, Andris Osins, Ada Voytsik. A superb Finnish fantasy epic about an evil witch who steals the sun and causes just about everything on the Earth to freeze. Also featured are magic harps, fields of snakes, a wizard, and a...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories. "Science Fiction Gems, Vol. Three" features works by C. M. Kornbluth, Stanley Mullen, Clifford D. Simak, Milton Lesser

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Sea Demons” by Victor Rousseau is the 38th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Captain Masterman was a stalwart, seasoned British naval officer.  He had been well respected within the ranks of his fellow naval peers—that is until he went missing at sea...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Sea Girl” by Ray Cummings is the 32nd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Earth’s lifeblood was disappearing—fast!  Dr. Plantet was one of those genius scientists who was always creating and discovering new fantastical things. Mankind depended on him when things went...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The leadoff novel is “The Secret of Elena’s Tomb” by Karl Tanzler von Cosel. This is a novelized true story of death and rejuvenation. And readers beware, this frightfully delicious tale of love, obsession, and science gone mad is morbidly true and not for the faint of heart.  The second novel is Amazing Stories regular Leroy Yerxa’s “Witch of Blackfen Moor.” Summoned just before midnight, Doctor Thaddius Quantry raced to the looming fortress of Blackfen manor, which stood in the desolation of the moors as an unwavering beacon in the darkness. As he neared the manor, an agonized scream broke through the eerie stillness of the moor.

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  He’s back again!  Yes…welcome back to Richard S. Shaver’s weird worlds with “The Shaver Mystery, Book Eight.”  Dive into the catacombs of Richard Shaver’s mind with this batch of Shaver stories.  Here you'll discover some truly wild tales that feature a number of his most wonderful—and weirdest—women...

Betty Blythe, Carlyle Blackwell. A female goddess rules over a lost city. She gained her power and immortality by stepping into a flame of supposed eternal life. Classic fantasy. Music score.

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The leadoff novel is “Space-Liner X-87” by heralded science fiction author, Ray Cummings. There was a murder mystery on board X-87! Under the guise of a mathematics clerk, special agent Fred Penelle boarded the X-87 with the mission of uncovering an interplanetary plot. The second novel is Amazing Stories veteran Earl L. Bell’s “The Moon of Doom.” The end was nigh! The change had begun simply, with nothing more than the sun rising three minutes later than usual...

THE STOLEN AIRSHIP (1967, Widescreen Edition) Hanus Bor, Jan Cizek, Cestmír Randa, Jan Malat, Michal Pospisil.  A marvelous science fiction epic and a group of children who make off with a futuristic airship from a county fair.  They then set out on a series of amazing exploits, all set against some of the most amazing stop-motion animation you will ever see...

(1946) Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yekaterina Derevshchikova, Tamara Makarova.  Simply put, this is a brilliant, beautiful-to-look-at fantasy of the highest order.  You will be enchanted with the dreamlike quality of this film.  It’s like watching a sublime painting that’s come to life.  A wonderful music score enhances the splendor of this classic film.  It is a simple tale of...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is “Strange Mission” by sci-fi and fantasy veteran Howard Browne.  Arthur Pendran was like most average joes: young, able and ready to join the war efforts. The only problem was his colorblindness that had prevented any doctor from clearing him for active duty.  The second novel is Paul Ernst’s exciting tale, “The Raid on the Termites.”  Into the tiny corridors of crawling death...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Strange Story of William Hyde” by Patrick and Terence Casey is the 35th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Where orchids grow the color of bright blood and the stones sing with the screams of unborn souls—where no white man had ever stepped before—lay the spectacular metropolis of Jallan Batoe...

THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE (1935) Anton Walbrook, Dorothea Wieck, Theodor Loos, Erich Fiedler. A magnificent horror-fantasy film!  The setting is Prague in the 1860s.  Walbrook plays Balduin, a handsome young student.  Into his life walks a beautiful singer named Julia. But hovering over her life is the sinister Dr. Carpis, a Satan-like figure who’s more of a human shadow than a flesh-and-blood being...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Veteran science fiction author Arthur J. Burk’s “Survival” is the lead off tale in this double novel. Was the last of mankind rushing blindly toward its destruction? The second tale in this great double novel is “Double Identity” penned by one of the better science fiction authors of the 20th Century, Raymond Z. Gallun. While humans enjoyed all that life on Earth had to offer, the creatures of the moon were struggling to survive...

(1956) Boris Andreyev, Shukur Burkhanov, Andrei Abrikosov, Natalya Medvedeva, Nelli Myshkova, Sergey Martinson.  A wonderful Russian fantasy about a legendary warrior who fights to save his people from an assortment of horrible monsters including a dragon, a wind demon, and other legendary creatures.  There are many great scenes and the special effects, for the time, were very well done...

(1937, aka THE STORY OF THE FOX) Romain Bouquet, Claude Daupihn, Raine, Sylvain Etkine, Robert Seller, Leon Larive. Tale of the Fox is without a doubt one of the most unique fantasies ever filmed.  With production beginning in 1930, this is one of the best examples of early stop-motion animation with puppets you will ever see...  

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. S. P. Meek's "Troyana, Illustrated Edition" is the 27th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Troyana was a scientific super city that had been lost to the rest of the world for centuries. It lay hidden in the wildest part of the Brazilian jungle in an area cryptically known as “Tierra Prohibitiva.” But Troyana had finally been rediscovered by...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Valley of Eyes Unseen” by Gilbert Collins is the 34th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Beyond the caravan trails that wind through the most treacherous desolation of Northern China, and past the mountain ranges that formed a vast frozen sea of snowy waves, lay the valley home of an ancient race, hidden from the world...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Vampires of the Andes” by Henry Carew is the 31st installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  “Silence and beware!  The vampires will soon awaken!”  The day Don Carlos della Priégo and Josetta Hernandez were wed, they recived a startling gift that would change the rest of their lives.  As they were about to set off into...

(1948) Roger Livesay, Petula (Downtown) Clark, Anthony Newley, Kay Walsh, David Hutcheson, directed by Peter Ustinov.  A most enjoyable British fantasy about a magic stone that makes the soul and personality of a pompous British father change places with his schoolboy son...

(1933) Conrad Veidt, Marie Ney, Basil Gill, Anne Grey, Dennis Hoey.  A big, sprawling epic fantasy.  Veidt plays a Jew who goes to Christ, asking him to cure his mistress’s illness.  Christ tells him that when she returns to her real husband she will be cured.  Refusing to let her, Veidt essentially condemns her to death.  Then, when Christ is staggering toward his crucifixion, Veidt spits on him in contempt...

WINTER OF THE WITCH (1969) Hermione Gingold, Anna Strasberg, Roger Morgan, Jack Manning, narrated by Burgess Meredith.  In this critically acclaimed film, the life of a gnarly old witch is disrupted by the unannounced arrival of a boy and his mother. Their presence makes life hell for her and forces her to struggle with the realities of the modern world...