Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and fantasy double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is a terrific tale of subterranean adventure and horror, Stanton A. Coblentz’s “The Midgets of Monoton.”  The second tale in this great double novel is by Alexander Blade, “War of the Giant Apes.”  Having discovered ape-like Martians on the faraway…

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...

Three more science fiction classics from Robert Silverberg.  One of the most notable contributers to Ace Books’ science fiction double novel series of the 1950s and 1960s was Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg, who graced Ace’s pages with a dozen novels over a seven-year period,1957-1964... 

In our third volume of Robert Silverberg Ace Double novels you get “Invaders from Earth,” a great tale about an outer space scam gone horribly wrong.  In “Collision Course,” the discovery of another, more-advanced race shakes the very foundations of humanity.  “The Silent Invaders” throws one man into the middle of a three-pronged conflict threatening Earth...

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...

Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg was a regular contributor to Ace’s Double Novel series.  Starting in 1957 through the mid-1960s, Bob saw a dozen of his novels (plus a short story collection) published in the Ace Double format.  In this, the first of two Armchair Fiction “Masters of Science Fiction” volumes covering these works, you get three of Bob’s best early Ace novels...

The contents are as follows:

THE CHALICE OF DEATH 

STARHAVEN

SHADOW ON THE STARS 

THE IMPOSSIBLE INTELLIGENCE

OVERLORD OF COLONY EIGHT

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 19” features the sensational stories of an unjustly neglected and highly underrated science fiction author, David Wright O’Brien.  O’Brien (1918-1944) had a deep love of writing, so much so that he continued his passion even after enlisting in the Air Force during World War II.  Sadly, he died in a bombing raid over Berlin at the age of twenty-six.  This volume contains many of his best stories...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 16” features the works of one of the most underrated sci-fi- authors of the 1950s, Rog Phillips.  Born in 1909, Phillips (Roger Phillip Graham) would begin his career later in life, publishing his first story “Let Freedom Ring!” in 1945. But once started he became impossible to stop.  He was..

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 18” spotlights one of pulpdom’s favorite science fiction authors, Don Wilcox.  He was sometimes known as Raymond A. Palmer’s right hand man.  We can’t help but think that Don Wilcox was a huge fan of old horror films and science fiction movie serials.  His stories just reek of it.  They’re filled with...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 17” features the works of one of the best science fiction authors of all time, the wonderful Edmond Hamilton.  He was the absolute master of interstellar thrills and many other sub-genres of science fiction.  Hamilton has long been popular with Armchair Fiction readers...

(1934) Walter Janssen, Sybille Schmitz, Walter Franck, Siegfried Schürenberg. A millionaire has plans for an army of robots to do the perilous jobs of human workers. In his lab he has a scientist ta

(1938) Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton.. Ming goes to Mars! That's right, and Flash Gordon is there to stop his maniacal plans. Feature version of "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars." Great fun.

(1959 aka THE SPLIT, Upgraded 11/25/22) Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Tetsu Nakamura, Terri Zimmern, Norman Van Hawley. The well-done, chilling tale of a reporter injected with a strange serum by a mad scientist. He finds himself slowly transforming into a horrible, two-headed monster.  The moment where he first sees an human eye coming out of his shoulder is unforgettable.  Nakamura gives...

(1969, Anamorphic Widescreen) John Price, Preben Neergaard, Lotte Tarp, Lars Lunøe.  In what is truly the most remarkable science fiction film we’ve released in years, Price plays a seemingly insane millionaire placed in an asylum after dangling a wiggling mouse in front of passersby and screaming crazed questions about the rodent’s physical reality.  In his cell, though, odd items begin to appear...