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 classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Our lead off novel is one of grand adventure by one of the early 20th Century’s most heralded authors, Otis Adelbert Kline’s “Lord of the Lamia.”  An ancient and sinister magic lurked in Cairo!  The second novel is one of great conflict and outer space drama, Clinton Constantinescu’s “The War of the Universe.”  There soon came a...

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 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 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 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 extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. S. P. Meek's "Troyana, Illustrated Edition" is the 27th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Troyana was a scientific super city that had been lost to the rest of the world for centuries. It lay hidden in the wildest part of the Brazilian jungle in an area cryptically known as “Tierra Prohibitiva.” But Troyana had finally been rediscovered by...

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 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 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 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 large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels.  “The Crooked City” is a taut, nail-biting novel of corruption and greed by Robert Kyle.  “MacBAIN CAUGHT, JAILED IN QUINN MURDER—Professional Cop’s Wife in Love Triangle”  That was what the headlines read. It was a tough spot for a not-so-tough man—James MacBain. MacBain lived in an asphalt tabernacle for prostitutes, dope pushers, and murderers...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is “Brainstorm” by one of the more underrated authors of the 1940s and 1950s, Rog Phillips.  Was there no end to the ceaseless stream of aggravation surging into Marvin Swank’s once peaceful life like a tormenting tidal wave of fury?  The second novel is  “The Defiant Agents” by beloved science fiction author Andre Norton.  It was called “Operation Cochise,” a carefully planned move to colonize a planet ahead of the Reds...

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...