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 editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Crooked Circle” is a gritty tale of suicide and murder; authored by crime/mystery novelist Manning Lee Stokes.  A hundred grand could tempt anyone.  Private investigator Steve Paget had always thought he would do anything for money, but nothing quite as vile and low-down as Jefferson Torrance’s proposition had ever been offered to him before...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  Robert Kelston serves up a murder mystery in a graveyard with “Murder’s End.”   You had a cemetery full of corpses—but one of them was a fresh murder victim!  As the owner of a stately cemetery, Charlie King was a man who made dying a pleasure.  But when Charlie turned up murdered, finding his killer became a convoluted mystery...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe paperback editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “Murder Clear, Track Fast” is a tremendous racetrack murder mystery by longtime mystery author, Judson Philips.  Saratoga was the place—the heart of thoroughbred racing in America.  Into this world came Don Channing, partner in a New York law firm.  His task—to solve the year-old murder of Jerome Fails...  

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 classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. This double novel features two engrossing sci-fi thrillers.  The first is Robert Silverberg’s and Randall Garrett’s great tale, “The Beast With Seven Tails.”  There was a roaring surf, a beautiful sun, and a monster from space! Laurence Manning is the author of our second novel, “The Wreck of the Asteroid.”  A crew of space explorers finds themselves stranded on our neighbor in space, Mars... 

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 classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  This first novel in this pairing is “Voyage into the Lightning” by heralded science fiction author Robert Moore Williams.  What horror lay behind the electrical aberrations?  The second novel is from another of science fiction’s upper tier, Marion Zimmer Bradley’s “The Colors of Space.”  It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive...

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 classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   A grim look at the future is the theme of the first novel, “Tomorrow” by John Tains.  The world was on the verge of total collapse!  One of the most popular writers of 1930s science fiction, Neil R. Jones, is the author of our next tale, “Martian and Troglodyte.”  They discovered life on a budding planet!  A team of Martian scientists raced across...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   The lead off novel is William Lemkin’s rousing tale, “Beyond the Stratosphere.”  What goes up does not necessarily come down!  The second novel in this great combo is “Crypt-City of the Deathless One” by heralded science fiction and fantasy writer Henry Kuttner.  Enter the forest of death at your own risk!  Lost in the depth...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.   “Dark Invasion” by Frederic Kummer is an intrigue-laced tale of an impending invasion.  The second novel, “Mystery Moon,” is by one of the most beloved science fiction authors of the 20th century, Edmond Hamilton.  What was the dreaded secret of Saturn’s moon?  Saturn’s moon, Rhea, was filled...

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 classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The lead off novel is a poignant novel of a new disease, far worse than Covid-19, David H. Keller’s “The Red Death.”  The second novel is Emerson B. Hartman’s “Lunarchia,” a hollow moon sci-fi adventure.

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 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 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 Eden Phillpotts' "The Golden Fetich," the 28th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Imagine being the son of a respected, seemingly well to do English lord, only to discover upon your father’s death that you had been left virtually penniless.  That’s what happened to Roy Meldrum, son of Lord Meldrum, whose philanthropy had left Roy’s inheritance nearly exhausted.  So with no money to his name...