Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel is a tale of the far-off future, “The Man the Tech-Men Made” by veteran sci-fi writer, Fox B. Holden.  The second novel is tale of interplanetary war, “A World He Never Made” by Edwin Benson...

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...

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...

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...

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... 

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...

MESSALINA, IMPERIAL VENUS—Widescreen Edition (1960 Belinda Lee, Spiros Focás, Carlo Giustini, Arturo Dominici. The corrupt Roman Empress, Messalina (well-played by Lee), transforms from a Vestal Virgin to a power mad, sex-crazed killer. This film does a pretty good job portraying her depravity.  One memorable scene has a young would-be assassin ending up in Messalina’s bed...  

MINOTAUR, WILD BEAST OF CRETE—Widescreen Edition (1960) Bob Mathias, Rosanna Schiaffino, Alberto Lupo, Rik Battaglia.  King Minos sacrifices the 'required' number of virgins to the monstrous Minotaur.  But as his wife is dying, she confesses that their daughter has a twin whom she has hidden away to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur... 

MISSION PHANTOM (1967) Fernando Sancho, Eduardo Fajardo, Ingrid Schoeller.  If you don’t take this film too seriously, you’ll probably love it.  A shoddy band of “free souls” from a variety of countries and backgrounds are gathered together to pull off what seems to be a clearly "impossible" caper.  This involves breaking into a highly-guarded place with seemingly impenetrable security...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel “Mistress of Machine-Age Madness” is white-knuckle ride by science fiction master, Jack Williamson. The second novel, “The Impossibles,” is by two well-known veteran science fiction writers, Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer...

MOON AND MIDNIGHT—Widescreen Edition (1970, aka MIDI MINUIT) Sylvie Fennec, Béatrice Arnac, Daniel Emilfork, Jacques Portet.  Fennec plays Helene the “normal” girl who’s infatuated with a decidedly twisted young man who has occasion to put on clawed gloves and go after the local citizens.  There are all kinds of strange characters and surreal situations in this bizarre French horror film...  

MURDER AT THE BASKERVILLES (1937 aka SILVER BLAZE) Arthur Wontner, Ian Flemming, Lyn Harding, John Turnbull, Judy Gunn, Robert Horton, Minnie Raynor.  Sherlock Holmes goes on holiday and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville.  Before long his holiday turns into a grisly double murder mystery...

MURDER ON LENNOX AVENUE (1941) Mamie Smith, Alec Lovejoy, Norman Astwood, Gus Smith.  The setting for this all-black drama is Harlem, 1941.  Pa Wilkins, chosen by the Better Business League to replace an apartment building’s ousted, crooked leader (who wants revenge!) is having a hell of a time contending with his young ward, a two-timing womanizer whose affairs are approaching crisis level...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “Murder Without Tears” is our first grisly tale of murder by Leonard Lupton.  This double novel’s second tale is a great tale of mystery & murder, “No Way Out” by Milton K. Ozaki...

Armchair Fiction presents classic mystery-crime double novels. The first novel is “Naked Fury” by heralded mystery writer Day Keene.  It’s a tale of power hungry men and dangerous women.  The second novel is a murder mystery set in the steamy jungles of Cuba, “Murder in Baracoa” by Paul E. Walsh.  He received a telegram of Death...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is a futuristic thriller by Milton Lesser, “Newshound, 2103, A.D.”  Imagine a time when the news might not be reported anymore, but “predicted.  ”The second novel is by Robert Wade, “Zero, A.D.”  What if Earth’s origin date was actually within the last hundred years or so, and that everything in our history prior to that point in time never really happened...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel “Next Door to the Sun” is written by sci-fi veteran, Stanton A. Coblentz. The second novel “Martian Nightmare,”  is a great short novel by one of the more underrated science fiction authors of the 20^th Century, Bryce Walton... 

NIGHT TRAIN FOR INVERNESS (1960) Norman Wooland, Jane Hylton, Dennis Waterman, Valentine Dyall, Silvia Francis.  Some of these little Brit thrillers of the ‘50s and ‘60s are real gems.  In this nail-biting film, Wooland, an ex-con just out of jail, kidnaps his son, whom his wife has previously kept from him.  Wooland and his son, along with his disgruntled girlfriend (marvelously played by Hylton) board an all-night express train.  Unknown to them...