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Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “Vampires of the Andes” by Henry Carew is the 31st installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. “Silence and beware! The vampires will soon awaken!” The day Don Carlos della Priégo and Josetta Hernandez were wed, they recived a startling gift that would change the rest of their lives. As they were about to set off into wedded bliss, the door of their carriage was opened and a shrowded woman left a parcel at their feet only to disappear into the crowded Pervian streets. No one knew who this mysterious woman was, but when the wrapped bundle gave a startled cry, the young couple raced to identfy its contents. Within the folds of cloth, crying softly was a baby girl and a note addressed to Doña Josetta. The note decreed that the couple was now responsible for this young life and would be raised in their carful care. The newlyweds, now turned unwitting parents, held in their arms a daughter specially chosen for them, and as the mysterious note proclaimed them to be her parents, it also claimed the baby girl was the last Incan princess, whose life was in mortal danger from an unthinkable horror…
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