Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. Frank R. Stockton's "The Great Stone of Sardis" is the 26th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Written in 1898 but set in 1947, this science fiction thriller has two essential themes—to make the first successful journey to the North Pole, and to further discover just what kind of hidden secrets lay deep under the Earth’s crust...

Armchair fiction presents Roy Norton's "The Land of the Lost," our 25th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.   Alone in his hut, a man watched a needle begin its violent course across a moving cylinder. The instrument was a Seismograph and its vigilant attendant, Dr. Martinez, watched in horror. Martinez knew what the cryptic messagemeant—a massive undersea earthquake with monstrous tidal waves just hours away...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  “Time Quarry” aka "First He Died" is one of the great science fiction novels of the 20^th Century.   Published in Galaxy Magazine in 1950, it put author Clifford D. Simak’s name clearly in the science fiction spotlight...

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...

Armchair fiction presents Roy Norton's "The Glyphs," our 29th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Hoping to find the truth about a hidden metropolis with rare glyphs (records carved on stone by a lost people), a band of daring adventurers, comprised of a scientific thief, a chiseled big game hunter, and a well-off “out-of-doors” man, travel halfway round the world to a savage jungle within the heart of South America...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels, complete with original illustrations.  He’s back again!  Yes…welcome back to Richard S. Shaver’s weird worlds with “The Shaver Mystery, Book Eight.”  Dive into the catacombs of Richard Shaver’s mind with this batch of Shaver stories.  Here you'll discover some truly wild tales that feature a number of his most wonderful—and weirdest—women...

Armchair fiction presents Frank Aubrey's "The Devil-Tree of El Dorado, Illustrated Edition," our 30th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  HORROR SAT HIGH ATOP MT. RORAIMA!  Who is the mysterious person known only as “Monella?”  Who is he and what is the secret of his shrouded past?  Like all good Lost Race-Lost World novels, “The Devil-Tree of El Dorado” deals with an expedition to a remote corner of the Earth...  

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Watergate mastermind E. Howard Hunt penned a brilliant tale of sexual corruption, crime, and murder in “The Judas Hour.” She had brought him back from a living death, rescued him from degradation.  Now, as she stood before him, Jake Webb knew this woman—who now owned his life—was evil...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Sterling Noel’s “Empire of Evil” is one of the best mystery-crime thrillers dealing with the Mafia that you’ll ever come across.  It was the bloody path to murder.  This is the story of Daniel Andradi, a young executive in America’s most terrible industry—crime. This is the rise of a Mafioso, don of the Brotherhood of Evil, wielder of power beyond belief...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Too Hot to Handle” is a finely woven tale of mystery and murder from Frank B. Presnell.  “Her voice was taunting… She whipped her open palm against the side of my face.  It jarred my mouth open.  She slammed me with her other hand, and got ready to repeat with the first.”  That was Ed Barlow’s payoff when he searched luscious Linda Cameron’s apartment for stray playboys...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Decoy” is a gritty murder tale written by mystery-crime novelist, Edward Ronns.  He was set up to take the fall.  Someone was pulling the strings of corruption in Sea City, and they had big plans for Ben Sherman, which would leave the now disgraced lawyer left holding the bag on a phony bribery charge...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Mystery-crime writer Richard Deming paints a tale of wildly escalating corruption and atrocities in “Body for Sale.”  Blackmail, Sex, and Murder… Tom Cavanaugh never quarreled over the means to an end, as the end was worth grabbing for—even if his common sense told him NO!  So when he found out he was going to be fired, he played a blackmail card—a card that delivered...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Man Bait” is a terrific tale of steamy love, betrayal, crime, and murder; written by mystery-crime novelist, Jack Liston.  She had his hooks in me.  Her name was Marcia. She worked in a bar. She was scrawny but beautiful—and she knew how to control me.  It was through Marcia that I came to know Sam Brennerman, an acknowledged underworld big shot...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels with original illustrations.  Here’s a great space opera classic, “Venus Liberated” by one of the early masters of sci-fi, Harl Vincent.  Join heroes Ralph Prescott and Teddy Crowley as they venture to Venus in a new, cutting-edge spaceship, only to find themselves thrown into the middle of an interplanetary war...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The first novel is by Hugo Award nominee, Rog Phillips, “A Man Named Mars.”  Could a sinister plan be stopped by a pair of nobodies?  Bryan Berry’s “Mission to Marakee” is our second novel.  Death to all scientists was the motto!  Ray Carver was an ordinary solider, displaced after the nuclear war...

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...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Jack Williamson and Miles Breuer’s “The Birth of a New Republic” is a grand adventure of interplanetary pioneering.   The moon was an inhospitable place. It had virulently hot days and the nights saw the temperature fall well below zero.  There were also strange, often-dangerous creatures found on the...

Armchair fiction presents large deluxe paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “Thus Far” is a terrific sci-fi murder mystery.   Had he gone too far for the sake of science?  Once a heralded name among the top scientists of the world, Graham Delaforce was now ridiculed for his enigmatic and strange ideas.  But his self-imposed exile never stopped his...