Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Frank Belknap Long’s “Planet without Love” is the first tale in this double novel. It was a planet where sex and love were crimes of the first magnitude. How long can a girl suppress the romantic desires that are natural to a beautiful and healthy female?  The second tale in this double novel is Frank M. Robinson’s “The Dead End Kids of Space.” It would one day be called, “The Great Interplanetary Heist!” Peter Johnson was a brilliant scientist who was just starting to make his mark...

(1962) Michel Lemoine, Jany Clair, Maria Luzi, Peter Dane, Otello Toso. This is a surprisingly effective film about invading aliens who commit sabotage while in the duplicate form of a human that the

(1950, updated 5/14/24) Laurette Luez, Allan Nixon, Joan Shawlee, Johann Peturrson, Judy Landon, John Merrick. Prehistoric babes battle giants and dragons during ancient times. Nixon is captured by the drop-dead gorgeous Luez and her tribe of cave babe beauties, who eventually realize the importance of having a good man around.  The best scene is where Nixon battles an enormous...

RETURN OF CHANDU (1934) Bela Lugosi, Maria Alba; CITY OF LOST MEN (1935) Kane Richmond, Bill Boyd; ISLAND CAPTIVES (1937) Eddie Nugent, Joan Barclay; TARZAN’S REVENGE (1938) Glenn Morris, Eleanor Holme.  Click on the image to the left to find out more about these four great titles...

(1959) Ewald Balser, Wolfgang Preiss, Barbara Rütting, Cornell Borchers, Wolfgang Kieling, Karin Baal.  Balser is a mad scientist conducting weird transplant experiments in the lab at his secluded chateau.  Preiss is the doctor he lures into helping him, not knowing that the cadavers used in the procedures are...

(1966, Upgraded 3/15/20) Bryant Halliday, Mary Peach, Norman Wooland, Ronald Allen, Derek Farr, Derrick De Marney. A reckless scientist decides to use himself as a guinea pig in his experiments with matter transmission from place to place by means of a...

(1958) Andre Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell. An unusual hull resembling an unexploded bomb is found in an English building site containing weird, insect-like creatures with faces like gargoyles. Inexplicable incidents occur and it's discovered that strange...

(1953, Upgraded 11/6/21) Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean, Hugh Kelly, Duncan Lamont. These are the only two surviving episodes of the famed British six-part mini-series. Professor Quatermass and his Experimental Rocket Group send a man into space. When the spacecraft returns to Earth they find, inexplicably, that only one of the crewmen is still on board...

(1955, Upgraded 11/6/21) John Robinson, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, John Stone. This is the original 6-part teleseries that was the follow-up to the earlier teleseries, The Quatermass Experiment (1953). There is something very wrong with a huge chemical factory out in the wilds of rural England. An alien horror is...

Armchair fiction presents deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Ralph Milne Farley’s “The Radio Beasts” is a classic science fiction story, much in the vein of Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Accidentally shot into space while conducting experiments with the radio transmission of matter, Myles Cabot had inadvertently landed on Venus, and in two short, thrill-filled years he had changed the entire course of civilization...

(1983) Christopher Connelly, Gioia Scola, Tony King, Ivan Rassimov, Stefano Mingardo, Bruce Baron, George Hilton. Scientists work to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine off the coast of Florida.  In doing so, they unearth an ancient Atlantean relic.  Soon a massive event is triggered...

(1949) Keiju Kobayashi, Teruko Akatsuki, Katsuko Wakasugi, Den Obinata. A forgotten horror/sci-fi classic!  Considered by some historians as the first Japanese sci-fi film, though the sci-fi elements are, admittedly, somewhat slight.  A young woman becomes the prime suspect in a murder mystery. Her gal pal and boyfriend set out to prove her innocence.  They soon end up in a forlorn, out of the way house filled with mystery and dread...

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...

(1961 aka THE PHANTOM MEETS THE RETURN OF DR. MABUSE, Upgraded 12/30/20) Lex Barker, Gerte Frobe, Wolfgang Preiss. Sequel to THE 1000 EYES OF DR. MABUSE. Forbe and Barker play detectives on the trail of the maniacal Mabuse who plots...

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...