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...

THE GREAT WALL—Widescreen Edition (1962) Shintarô Katsu, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ken Utsui, Hiroshi Kawaguchi.  The time is 221 BC. The place is ancient China.  Warlord Qin Shihuangdi becomes emperor and rules over most of China. This lavish epic depicts the history of Qin's exploits, including the building of the Great Wall.  It’s filled with action and intrigue in the best traditions of epic filmmaking...

THE KASHMIRI RUN (1969) Pernell Roberts, Alexandra Bastido, Julián Mateos, Gloria Cámara, Leonard Bell.  Post-Bonanza Roberts plays a former mountaineer hiding out in the wilds of Tibet.  Ahead of an onslaught by Chinese troops, who have occupied most of Tibet, Roberts tries to smuggle a noted scientist and a good-looking girl (of course) across the border to safety...

THE REBEL’S SON (1938) Harry Baur, Anthony Bushell, Roger Livesey. In the 16th century the Cossacks revolt against the Polish government.  They are led by Taras Bulba, played brilliantly by Baur.  Just as good is Bushell in the role of his educated but wayward son.  The final battle scenes are terrific and the climactic confrontation between Baur and Bushell is very memorable...

SHOOTOUT AT BIG SAG (1962) Walter Brennan, Don Robinson, Luana Patten, Leif Erickson, Les Tremayne.  An engaging action-western drama.  Brennan is the pawn of his bossy wife, who wants a range war with Erickson.  It doesn’t help that Walter’s daughter and Leif’s son have fallen in love. Tremayne, is great as the sleazy saloon owner hired to “seal the deal” in favor of Walter’s family... 

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is “Beyond the Walls of Space” by S. M. Tenneshaw.  Earth was in peril, threatened by a veiled planet that was much closer than anyone dreamed of.  The second novel is “The Secret of the Ninth Planet” by heralded science fiction author and editor, Donald A. Wollheim.  Could the fantastic mystery that shielded the greatest threat mankind had ever faced be solved in time...?

Armchair fiction presents extra large editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  Here’s a great illustrated edition of that space opera classic, “The Black Star Passes” by one of the early masters of science fiction, John W. Campbell.  It was three against the stars!  A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention… 

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  William Hope Hodgson's "The Boats of the Glen Carrig" is the twenty-first installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  An early classic of adventure and horror!  It is one of the strangest sea-faring horror tales ever told and was admired greatly by horror fiction legend, H. P. Lovecraft.

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  This double features two tales of futuristic military conflict.  The first novel is another Edmond Hamilton classic, “Cities in the Air.” It’s typical of Hamilton’s great work from the 1930s.  The second novel, “The War of the Planets” is authored by one of Edmond Hamilton’s contemporaries, Harl Vincent...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is the first of a three-part series by S. J. Byrne, “Colossus.”  The second novel is Robert Moore Williams’ chilling sci-fi horror tale, “Isle of Doom”...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  S. P. Meek's "The Drums of Tapajos, Illustrated Edition" is the fifteenth installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Beware the bizarre jungle drums that signaled Death...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel, “The Exile of the Skies” is a grand epic of space opera by Richard Vaughan.  He was an outcast in the endless abyss of space, bounding from one distant planet to another, colliding with a myriad of alien creatures.  The second novel is “Abduction” by Steve Frazee  What would you do if you were abducted by a flying saucer and no one believed you...?  

Armchair Fiction presents science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The lead-off novel is a rollicking tale by Ray Cummings, “Explorers into Infinity.”  Through an instrument called the myrdoscope, Brett Gryce a distant world, lost in the black immensity of space.  The second novel “Design for Doomsday” is a great sci-fi adventure tale written by Bryce Walton.  The Martian prison was be a cruel and cold place in the post-Solar War era...

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 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...

Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. “Frenzy” is our first grisly tale of murder and mayhem, by James O. Causey.  Shannon...she was a slut with a body like flame—hell’s own angel—wrapped up in murder and mayhem  This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of murder and crime, “In this Corner—Death” by Emile C. Tepperman.  It was a good deed turned into a nightmare...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is David Wright O’Brien’s unusual science-fantasy, “Furlough from Eternity.”  Can one journey back from the dead?  The second novel is Berkeley Livingston’s “Invasion of the Plant Men.”  Smoldering in a “garden” were the seeds of a diabolical alien invasion...