Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Light in the Sky” by Herbert Clock and Eric Boetzel is the 41st installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Invaded by the Spanish, Tizoc and his people were forced to flee.  With his people’s numbers so few, there was no hope of fighting back.  Their home, as they once knew it, was destroyed...

 (1934) Gerald du Maurier, George Curzon, Grete Natzler, Belle Chrystall, Leslie Perrins, Henry Victor.  Curzon is great as the suave yet crazed doctor who has devised a formula that puts people into a death-like trance so he can then claim their life...

(1958) Dato Danelia, V. Djodjua, Manana Londaridze, Otar Koberidze.  A classic spectacle film with a 7.1 IMDB rating.  This is the story of Khvicha, a young boy from a Georgian (Russian) village is kidnapped, sold into slavery, and raised as a Mamluk warrior in far off Egypt.  He is reunited with his childhood friend (also kidnapped), only to be torn apart again...

(1971) Tom Chadbon, Rob Walker, Robert Oates, Marianne Benet, David Whitman.   A squad of futuristic soldiers wakes up, somehow knowing they need to break into an enemy base.  Their mission is so secret that they have been hypnotically programmed with their instructions and will only recall each step of their undertaking when they hear a pre-arranged cue. Although their plans seem infallible, gradually paranoia begins to...

(1936, aka THE MAN WHO CHANGED HIS MIND) Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier, Donald Calthrop, Lyn Harding. Karloff does in this role, what Lugosi did in his role as Dr. Vollin in THE RAVEN. He lets it all hang out as he plays the mad Dr. Laurience, who invents a fantastic device that...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic horror and fantasy short story collections, complete with original illustrations. "Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Hostess of Horror and Fantasy” features the work of a master craftsman of fantastic fiction. Mary Counselman was a mainstay at Weird Tales...

Armchair Fiction presents R. H. Roman's "The Moon Conquerors," written in 1929 for Hugo Gernsback's Science Wonder Quarterly magazine. Illustrated by Frank R. Paul, it comes complete with a dozen spectacular illustrations. “The Moon Conquerors” is a superb tale of science-fantasy...

(1961) Terence Longdon, Donald Gray, Dermot Walsh, Diane Clare, Robertson Hare.  A college student falls to his death from his window when he encounters an intruder in his room...

(1959) Jeanne Rainer, Ronald Long, Art Koulias, Frances Hammond. In what is clearly a set-up by corrupt police officials, a pretty young model ends up stuck in a small town sheriff’s office, unable to pay for a traffic violation.  When a pudgy businessman arrives—also caught for speeding—he offers to pay her fine, which she thankfully accepts.  Little does she know that her recompense will throw her into a sordid life as an escort girl...

(1932) Pierre Renoir, Georges Térof, Winna Winifried, G. A. Martin, Michel Duran, directed by Jean Renoir.  A diamond merchant is found dead, murdered, inside a car near a gloomy, muddy, foggy French crossroads...

 (1962) Maria Perschy, Robert Cunningham, Uwe Friedrichsen, Karen Blanguernon, Gustavo Rojo.  Earth is in great peril.  Invading aliens attempt conquest by taking over peoples’ bodies at death.  They then use them as tools for their invasion plans...

(1963) Renato Salvatori, Rosemary Dexter, Franco Luzzi, Mara Carisi.  This exceptional sci-fi film is filled with satire, comedy, and socially provocative moments.  A factory worker’s corpse is found in a culvert.  At the autopsy, the body miraculously comes back to life!  An alien named Omicron has taken control and slowly starts to learn his body’s functions...

(1946) Viviane Romance, Michel Simon, Max Dalban, Evile Drain, Guy Favieres.  Romance and Dalban are lovers—she would do anything for him, including a stretch in women’s prison for a crime she didn’t commit.  When an elderly woman is murdered in the neighborhood (for money), suspicion falls Dalban’s way.  Simon, as Dr. Vargas (aka Mr. Hire), has witnessed the crime and has proof of Dalban’s guilt...

(1968, aka THE BRIDE FROM HADES) Kôjirô Hongô, Miyoko Akaza, Mayumi Ogawa, Akira Nishimura.  This is one of the most haunting Japanese horror films you will ever see—engaging, gripping, and absolutely chilling.  During the Obon festival of the dead, a samurai is visited by two beautiful women, one of whom he falls deeply in love with.  During the next few nights he comes to discover that his new lover and her older companion are ghosts...

(1937, aka SONG AT MIDNIGHT—UPGRADED) Menghe Gu, Ping Hu, Shan Jim, Chau-shui Yee. An acting troupe is scheduled to come to a small Chinese town. A phantom-type character who inhabits a deserted theater sings his mournful song in the night.  When the acting troupe arrives, they use the theater for their new opera production. The Phantom then exerts his strange influence over...

(1961) Dean Fredericks, Coleen Gray, Dolores Faith, Anthony Dexter, Francis X Bushman, Richcard Kiel.  There is something ultimately likable about this underrated sci-fi B-opus.  Astronaut Fredericks is stranded on a “phantom” planetoid. There he finds a race of miniature people menaced by a fleet of marauding alien monsters who attack in their flaming spaceships. This film is loaded with...

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...

(1966) Christopher Lee, Leo Genn, Anthony Newlands, Heinz Drache, Margaret Lee, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski.  The plot begins with a botched heist that ends with one of the criminals shooting a police officer...