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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

(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...

(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...