Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “When the Earth Swung Over” by Alfred Colbeck is the 47^th installment of our “Lost World-Lost Race Classics” series.  It was a danger-filled rescue mission!  After Billy Wedge’s arrival at Thorswick Manor, he recounted how he and his shipwrecked companions had been captured by a lost South American race of...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  “Weird Tales: Lost World-Lost Race Stories, Vol. One” edited by Gregory Luce is the 43^rd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Weird Tales magazine was a treasure trove of lost world-lost race gems...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Tower Treasure,” Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves looking for a hidden stash of stolen jewels and securities. Their only clues are the words of a dying criminal: “I hid it in the old tower.” What follows is...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. Veteran science fiction author Arthur J. Burk’s “Survival” is the lead off tale in this double novel. Was the last of mankind rushing blindly toward its destruction? The second tale in this great double novel is “Double Identity” penned by one of the better science fiction authors of the 20th Century, Raymond Z. Gallun. While humans enjoyed all that life on Earth had to offer, the creatures of the moon were struggling to survive...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Written by famed pulp author Harl Vincent, “Subterrania” is the 44^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  In this edition you get two lost world-lost race classics in one.  “Subterrania” is a dynamite combination of two of Harl Vincent’s best works...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations.  The leadoff novel is “Strange Mission” by sci-fi and fantasy veteran Howard Browne.  Arthur Pendran was like most average joes: young, able and ready to join the war efforts. The only problem was his colorblindness that had prevented any doctor from clearing him for active duty.  The second novel is Paul Ernst’s exciting tale, “The Raid on the Termites.”  Into the tiny corridors of crawling death...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The leadoff novel is “Space-Liner X-87” by heralded science fiction author, Ray Cummings. There was a murder mystery on board X-87! Under the guise of a mathematics clerk, special agent Fred Penelle boarded the X-87 with the mission of uncovering an interplanetary plot. The second novel is Amazing Stories veteran Earl L. Bell’s “The Moon of Doom.” The end was nigh! The change had begun simply, with nothing more than the sun rising three minutes later than usual...

Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  Written by famed British India author Ganpat, “Snow Rubies” is the 46^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  The story concerns a mysterious valley in a distant part of the world.  A passage lost to time lay undiscovered until Commander Frank Weston unwittingly happened upon a...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Secret of the Old Mill,” Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves trying to track down the hideout of a counterfeiting gang whose operations appear to be located somewhere near the Hardy's hometown of Bayport.  The trail soon leads to a mysterious...

Armchair Fiction presents classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The leadoff novel is “The Secret of Elena’s Tomb” by Karl Tanzler von Cosel. This is a novelized true story of death and rejuvenation. And readers beware, this frightfully delicious tale of love, obsession, and science gone mad is morbidly true and not for the faint of heart.  The second novel is Amazing Stories regular Leroy Yerxa’s “Witch of Blackfen Moor.” Summoned just before midnight, Doctor Thaddius Quantry raced to the looming fortress of Blackfen manor, which stood in the desolation of the moors as an unwavering beacon in the darkness. As he neared the manor, an agonized scream broke through the eerie stillness of the moor.

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...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. “Murder Can’t Wait” is the name of this hardboiled novel, written by Manning Stokes. A million dollars was waiting at the end of a murderous plot. To say Vince Donnellen was down on his luck would be an understatement...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Our author is former Watergate mastermind and suspected JFK assassination conspirator E. Howard Hunt, who’s at his very best in one of the mystery and intrigue novels that he was also famous for, “Lovers are Losers.” It’s a nail-biting tale about a...

Armchair Fiction presents large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Renown 20th Century mystery writer Octavus Roy Cohen spins a real web of suspense with his tale called “Lost Lady. In Hollywood anything could happen.  Working the Hollywood night watch was a good gig for Sergeant Danny O'Leary—that was until...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The House on the Cliff,” Frank and Joe Hardy find themselves looking into the mysterious goings-on in and around an old, supposedly “haunted” house, rooted on a high cliff above the ocean. However, what they discover there are more than just...