Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 17” features the works of one of the best science fiction authors of all time, the wonderful Edmond Hamilton.  He was the absolute master of interstellar thrills and many other sub-genres of science fiction.  Hamilton has long been popular with Armchair Fiction readers...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 18” spotlights one of pulpdom’s favorite science fiction authors, Don Wilcox.  He was sometimes known as Raymond A. Palmer’s right hand man.  We can’t help but think that Don Wilcox was a huge fan of old horror films and science fiction movie serials.  His stories just reek of it.  They’re filled with...

Armchair Fiction features the best in classic science fiction short story collections.  "Masters of Science Fiction, Vol. 19” features the sensational stories of an unjustly neglected and highly underrated science fiction author, David Wright O’Brien.  O’Brien (1918-1944) had a deep love of writing, so much so that he continued his passion even after enlisting in the Air Force during World War II.  Sadly, he died in a bombing raid over Berlin at the age of twenty-six.  This volume contains many of his best stories...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “The House of Murders” by longtime mystery pulp magazine veteran D. L. Champion is the first story in this double novel. The Thorpe family was one of the most respectable and wealthy families in all of New York. But behind a seven-foot fence (and the pack of killer hounds that encircled it) lay the ancient house... This double novel’s second tale is a fast-moving thriller by Lawrence G. Blochmann. His novel, “Pursuit,” is about Timothy Shawn, the head of the great Shawn Detective Agency, who dangled the biggest piece of change before the sleepy eyes of Edward T. Mitchell that the former All American halfback had ever seen...

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. “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. 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 large, deluxe editions of classic mystery-crime novels. Veteran crime novelist Milton K. Ozaki tells a powerful tale of deception and murder in “The Dummy Murder Case.” It was a mock murder that led to...

Armchair fiction presents large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels.  “The Treasure Vault of Atlantis” by Olof W. Anderson is the 58^th installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series.  Would she be trapped in a vault forever?  To modern civilization, the lost world of Atlantis is a continent of myth and legend that...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “Unholy Night,” a terror-filled thriller by veteran storyteller Hugh B. Cave, starts off this mystery combo. They called the looming structure on the sea cliff “Fulsom’s Folly,” and accounts pertaining to it (whispered only with dread by the local citizens) were shocking tales...This double novel’s second tale is Robert Colby’s thriller,“Kill Me a Fortune.” For Ross Elliot the summer held no promise. With his teaching duties over until fall, and a nasty breakup behind him, he found himself facing boredom, with three months of lonely time on his hands...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. “Blood on the Moon” by pulp magazine veteran Dwight V. Swain starts of this thrilling double novel. From the outside the Hideaway Club was exactly like one would expect: a sleazy joint full of crooks, criminals, and con artists. The neon lights and cheap décor tried to hide its seedy underbelly... Dwight V. Swain is back again for the second novel, “Murder for Madame.” When a married man still makes passes at the ladies, any trouble that develops should be both expected and deserved...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel kicks off with a terrific Milton Ozaki tale, “The Deadly Lover.” She was just too beautiful to die! But die she did—the victim of a ruthless killer who struck by night. A killer smart enough to lure the lovely young girl to a lonely park, smart enough to strangle the life from her shapely body, smart enough to leave no traces... The second tale in this double novel is a great thriller by Robert Moore Williams, “Murder is so Final.” In the early hours of the morning, as the traffic began to pile up and humidity increased, the male citizens of St. Louis performed their usual routines. They dressed, showered and shaved, made breakfast and coffee, read the paper, and if they were lucky, kissed the Missus’ goodbye...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first tale in this great double novel is “Dangerous to Know” by whodunit regular James P. Duff. Frank Heggen’s involvement in the whole deadly mix-up began harmlessly enough with a very simple automobile collision. But that little scrape changed from a ho-hum incident to a ripening case of murder with amazing speed… The second fine tale in this doubl novel is Steve Ward’s sultry thriller, “Odds Against Linda.” When Peter Conrad brought his beautiful new bride back to San Francisco, he found a most unusual reception committee waiting patiently for him. It consisted of two roughneck characters along with the long, gray, metallic gun barrels...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel’s first tale is “Dig Her a Grave” by whodunit veteran Paul Kruger. Jeannie Flemming was young, hard, and tough—but not quite tough enough! The day that newspaperman Denny Dolan stumbled over her very luscious naked body, she was also very definitely dead...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. The first tale in this great double novel is “The Big Fix” by whodunit veteran Mel Colton. It’s a tale about desperate guys and double-crossing dolls. There was a big payoff due—$100,000 for a crooked racing fix that only Blair Savage could collect, because the bet had been made in his name... The second tale in this double novel is Nelson S. Bond’s thundering thriller, “Death Holds the Stirrups.” Thundering down the racetrack at a breakneck speed, fresh out of apprenticeship, jockey Jerry McGhee thought he was winning his race; but as he booted the horse forward, and with the finish line in sight, his filly suddenly reared up, sending him falling not only to the ground but into a whole heap of trouble...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic mystery-crime double novels. This double novel’s first story is Robert Turner’s whodunit thriller, “The Tobacco Auction Murders.” Her last footsteps were shrouded by a screen of smoke! Jake Krane came South in search of his oddly silent wife. Vickie’s last letter had been filled with a mysterious sense of desperation... This double novel’s second tale is “The Sound of Death,” by pulp writer exraordinaire, David Wright O’Brien. When a person enlisted in the service and went to war, those who had families prayed for their safe return. But that wasn’t the case with some...

Armchair Fiction presents the original Hardy Boys stories. In this, Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Secret of the Caves,” Frank and Joe come to the rescue of a woman who was on her way to see their famous detective father, Fenton Hardy. Her brother has disappeared and she pleads for the detective’s help...