Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  A.Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss and Other Fantastic Tales" is the seventeenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  After weeks of toiling through treacherous country, Nicholas Graydon and his partners found themselves lost in the Peruvian wilderness on a hunt for lost Incan treasure...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “Faster Than Light” written by a great author from the golden age of science fiction, Harl Vincent. This exciting space opera tale is the sequel to Vincent’s “Venus Liberated.” After high adventures on Venus, Ralph and Margaret Prescott had settled into a mundane life on Earth. This double novel combo’s second tale is Amazing Stories editor Raymond A. Palmer’s “The Test Tube Girl.” As World War II came to a close, humanity had yet to realize that its demise was already set in stone....

FILIBUS (1915) Cristina Ruspoli, Mario Mariani, Giovanni Spano, Filippo Vallino.  Great early silent super-criminal film with sci-fi elements.  Ruspoli is the sinister sky pirate, Filibus, who pulls off amazing robberies with her super-science airship. When she’s pursued by top-of-the-line detective Mariani, she initiates a  series of...

THE FINAL WAR—Widescreen Edition (1960) Tatsuo Umemiya, Yoshiko Mita, Yayoi Furusato.  This is a sci-fi nuclear destruction film that fans have been clamoring to see for years.  And though no English subtitles currently exist, the storyline here isn’t all that hard to follow, even if it is in Japanese only. The scenes of nuclear destruction are pretty well done for the time...

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a great paperback edition of that space opera class, “The Fire People” by one of the masters of early science fiction, Ray Cummings.  It was a fiery invasion from another planet!  No one could have suspected that Earth was in mortal danger...

(1962, Upgraded 12/30/20) Yoko Tani, Oldrich Lukes, Julius Ongewe, Ignacy Machowski, Kurt Rackelman.   A big, international space expedition is launched after the discovery of an ancient alien artifact.  Their expedition...land on and explore the planet Venus, which is believed to be the artifact's place of origin...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction and fantasy double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is an unusual tale of time travel, “First Through Time” by Rex Gordon.  The second novel is a great Milton Lesser tale, “Through a Glass Darkly.”  Was he a man—or a robot?  Gilbert wasn’t completely sure what he was.  All he knew was...

(1940, Updated 3/21/25) Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne. Frank Shannon.  It's Flash against Ming again as the Purple Death threatens the Earth.  This horrible, Earth-threatening disease is believed to be the evil machination of that dastardly scoundrel...

(1967) Paul Stevens, Claudie Lange, John Heston. Every so often we come across a movie that is so bad it nearly defies description.  Flashman is one of those movies.  Flashman is actually a spoiled British Royal who doesn’t have any superpowers or gadgetry whatsoever—so what’s the point of the costume?  There are lots of villains running around, including a mafiosa type guy who kills a scientist for his invisibility formula, then robs banks while he’s invisible... 

(1955) Orhan Erçin, Zafer Önen, Türkan Samil, Özcan Tekgül, Mirella Monro.  This really isn’t much of a movie, yet somehow it kind of works (5.5 on IMDB).  There’s a flying saucer, a dorky robot, an elixir of life, and a plethora of cheesy alien dames who have come to Earth looking for…you guessed it…men!  And who do they find?  

(1953) Richard Crane, Vic Perrin, Scotty Beckett, Dian Fauntelle, Richard Meredith, Sally Mansfield. Outer space thrills with Rocky Jones and his Space Rangers. Rocky is dispatched to investigate an

(1981) Robert Clarke, John Carradine, Cameron Mitchell, Katherine Victor, Steve Brodie, directed by Jerry Warren.  This is perhaps the most non-sensical movie you will ever see.  Clarke and his pals’ hot-air balloon crashes on a remote island that just happens to be run by a descendent (kind of) of Dr. Frankenstein, who (of course!) is carrying on mad experiments...

(1958, Upgraded 11/6/21) John Ashley, Donald Murphy, Sally Todd, Harold Lloyd Jr, Sandra Knight. Murphy plays a crazed (and extremely arrogant) descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein. He creates a new, hideous female monster using the dead parts of a beautiful girl (and others). Threatened is a group of typical 50's teenagers...

(1957, aka Frankie No Uchûjin) Frankie Sakai, Ichirô Sugai, Tomoko Kô, Ayuko Fujishiro, Tôru Abe.  This incredibly rare Japanese sci-fi film is now available for the first time with English subtitles.  Sakai plays numerous different parts in this grand science fiction comedy.  A professor and his pretty assistant profess to have knowledge of a flying saucer that has visited the Earth...

(1964) Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Joachim Hansen, Walter Rilla. Stevens is a determined scientist experimenting with the suspended animation of chimps.  Next on the docket…humans!  He makes the decision to use himself as a guinea pig. Before going into deep freeze, though, his wife dies suddenly and he comes under suspicion of her possible murder.  Will he wake from his frozen state only to be...

(1969, Upgraded 11/15/23) George Sanders, Shirley Eaton, Richard Wyler, Maria Rohm, directed by Jess Franco. A beautiful woman from the secret city of "Femina" leads a well trained (and very attractive) female army in a plot to take over the world. They use the...