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Armchair fiction presents extra-large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. “The House on Stilts” by R. H. Hazard is the 42nd installment of our "Lost World-Lost Race Classics" series. Jack Smith was a real go-get-‘em reporter and loved the work he did for his newspaper. His latest assignment was covering the escapades of a big shot criminal named Varney. Jack knew the story would be a front-page splash if he and his detective pal, Larry Sullivan, could track him down. The chase led them to Varney’s hiding place, a sinister island called “Gabrielle,” which lay hidden somewhere in the steamy Caribbean. Gabrielle was filled with ferocious natives and a multitude of other horrors. The natives would stop at nothing to fulfill the commands of their Voodoo mistress, who was known simply as “the Yellow Queen.” The queen’s right hand man, a vicious beast called the “dog-man,” had a penchant for stealing children for the purpose of human sacrifice! Yes, Gabrielle was a Caribbean theater of horrors upon which Jack Smith and Larry Sullivan found themselves shipwrecked. Would they be able to nab Varney and bring him to justice, or would the island’s terrors swallow them whole?
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