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Almuric and Other Adventures by Robert E. Howard (Unexpurgated Edition)

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Almuric and Other Adventures by Robert E. Howard
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This Halcyon Classics ebook contains Robert Ervin Howard’s planetary romance ‘Almuric’ and three other short stories by the creator of ‘Conan.’ Similar in some ways to the Barsoom books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the story follows an Earthman transported to Almuric, a remote alien world where he must contend with apelike humans, winged monsters, and other sinister forces. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.

Contents:

Almuric
The Treasures of Tartary
The Voice of El-Lil
The Valley of the Worm

This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of mars series (Barsoom)

Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of mars series (Barsoom)
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John Carter, a Confederate veteran of the American Civil War, goes prospecting in Arizona immediately after the war’s end. Having struck a rich vein of gold, he runs afoul of the Apaches. While attempting to evade pursuit by hiding in a sacred cave, he is mysteriously transported to Mars, called “Barsoom” by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength and superhuman agility in this new environment as a result of its lesser gravity and lower atmospheric pressure. He soon falls in with a nomadic tribe of Green Martians, or Tharks, as the planet’s warlike, six-limbed, green-skinned inhabitants are known. Thanks to his strength and martial prowess, Carter rises to a high position in the tribe and earns the respect and eventually the friendship of Tars Tarkas, one of the Thark chiefs.

collected in three books

first here

second here

third here