Almuric: Sword & Planet Novel by REH

[El Borak]

Almuric is one of the most reprinted of all REH's stories.

howardworks.com/storya.htm#almu

ALMURIC

WEIRD TALES VOLUME 33 NUMBER 5, Weird Tales, New York, May 1939 (Part 1 of 3)
WEIRD TALES VOLUME 34 NUMBER 1, Weird Tales, New York, June-July 1939 (Part 2 of 3)
WEIRD TALES VOLUME 34 NUMBER 2, Weird Tales, New York, August 1939 (Part 3 of 3)
ALMURIC, Ace, 1964
ALMURIC, Ace, 1970
ALMURIC, New English Library, 1971
魔境惑星アルムリック (MAKYŌ WAKUSEI ARUMURIKU) (ALMURIC), Hayakawa Bunko , November 1972 (Japanese)
ALMURIC, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1973 (German)
ALMURIC, Grant, 1975
ALMURIC, Berkley, December 1977
ALMURIC, Scala, 1977 (Dutch)
ALMURIC, Berkley, 2nd, 1977
ALMURIC, Sphere, 1977
ALMURIC, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, 1979 (German, 2nd printing)
EPIC ILLUSTRATED V1N2, Marvel Comics, Summer 1980, graphic adaptation (part 1 of 4)
EPIC ILLUSTRATED V1N3, Marvel Comics, Fall 1980, graphic adaptation (part 2 of 4)
EPIC ILLUSTRATED V1N4, Marvel Comics, Winter 1980, graphic adaptation (part 3 of 4)
EPIC ILLUSTRATED V1N5, Marvel Comics, April 1981, graphic adaptation (part 4 of 4)
ALMURIC, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, January 1982 (German, 3rd printing)
ALMURIC. IL PIANETA SELVAGGIO, Editrice Nord, May 1982 (Italian)
ALMURIC, NeO, June 1986 (French)
ALMURIC, Fleuve Noir, December 1991 (French)
ALMURIC, Dark Horse Comics, 1991, graphic adaptation
ALMURIC, Laser Books, 1991 (Czech)
ALMURIC, Wydawnictwo Andor, 1992 (Polish)
ALMURIK I INNE OPOWIADANIA, Wydawnictwo PiK, 1994 (Polish)
TUTTI I CICLI FANTASTICI: I CICLI DI KULL DI VALUSIA, DI JAMES ALLISON, DI CTHULHU E DI ALMURIC, Newton Compton Editori, April 1995 (Italian)
BLACK HOUND OF DEATH (GONCHIE SMERTI), North-West, 1999 (Russian)
MILLEMONDI SPECIALE ESTATE 2001, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, July 2001 (Italian)
ALMÚRIA, Cherubion Könyvkiadó, 2002 (Hungarian)
ALMURIC, Laser Books, 2003 (Czech)
THE WEIRD WRITINGS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD Volume 2, Girasol Collectables, March 2006
ALMURIC, Pulpville Press, August 2006
ALMURIC, Pulpville Press, September 2006
ALMURIC, Leonaur, December 2007
ALMURIC, Dodo Press, February 2008
ALMURIC, Paizo Publishing, March 2008
ALMURIC, IAP, July 2009
ALMURIC AND OTHER ADVENTURES, Halcyon Press, Ltd., December 2009
THE ROBERT E. HOWARD OMNIBUS: 99 COLLECTED STORIES, Halcyon Press, Ltd., May 2010
A THUNDER OF TRUMPETS: THE WEIRD WORKS OF ROBERT E. HOWARD VOLUME 10, Wildside Press, July 2010
ALMURIC, Edition Phantasia, September 2010 (German)
50 CLASSIC FANTASY BOOKS VOLUME 1, Golgotha Press, January 2011
CONAN'S BRETHREN, Gollancz, January 2011
ALMURIC, Wildside Press, January 2011
ALMURIC, Daniel Simmons, July 2011
ALMURIC, Clube de Autores, 2011 (Portuguese)
ALMURIC, MonoKL Yayınları, April 2012 (Turkish)
ADVENTURES IN SCIENCE FANTASY, REH Foundation Press, May 2012
ALMURIC, eStar Books, November 2012
ALMURIC, CreateSpace, February 2013
ALMURIC, CreateSpace, February 2013
ALMURIC, Edition Dardariee, April 2013 (German)
ALMURIC, Furnas Press, April 2013
ALMURIC, Urco Editora, August 2013 (Galician)
ALMURIC, Pulpville Press, May 2014
ROBERT E. HOWARD SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS, Business and Leadership Publishing, July 2014
ALMURIC, Bragelonne, September 2015 (French)
ALMURIC AND OTHER FANTASIES, Ozymandias Press, July 2016
ALMURIC AND OTHER FANTASIES, Jovian Press, October 2016
ALMURIC AND OTHER FANTASIES, Zero-Sum Press, February 2017
ALMURIC, Oppian, July 2019 (Finnish)
ALMURIC, Oppian, March 2020 (Finnish)

[El Borak]

Esau Cairn is a barbarian hero, out of place in the modern world, he escapes to a savage world befitting his primal nature.

An interesting take in this quote from www.pulpanddagger.com/conan/almuric.html.

'Almuric is particularly fascinating to read if you have read a lot of Burroughs' John Carter of Mars books. It is clearly modelled closely on the John Carter books, but with the whole thing mutated through Howard's own distinctive world view. Whereas John Carter was the ultimate good guy hero, master sword fighter and clean-cut gentleman, here we find Esau Cairn, the ultimate misanthrope, a man so strong and brutish, he has literally spent his life avoiding sports (or, we may assume, any human contact) for fear he will accidentally kill someone -- a situation which isn't helped by his uncontrollable temper. This fellow definitely has issues! It is this combination of temper and brute strength which launches Cairn on his planetary adventure when, having killed a crooked politician, now fleeing one step ahead of the police, he encounters a scientist who -- lucky boy -- is just looking for someone to test his planetary transportation dohickey out on. Cairn makes the ultimate getaway and is teleported to the planet Almuric which, again, evokes Burroughs -- this time his Pellucidar books with its brutish cavemen and prehistoric wilderness milieu. The first half of the book details how Cairn gradually wins his way into the brutish hearts of the Neandertal-like Guras, and especially the heart of a definitely non-Neandertal female Gura named Altha. (The Guras seem inspired by yet another Burroughs creation -- Tarzan's lost city of Opar, whose men were apes and whose women were Eurobabes.) The second half then describes how a race of winged black men called the Yagas kidnap Altha to their nearly unreachable citadel and Cairn leads the Guras in rescuing her and wiping out the evil Yagas forever.'

[El Borak]

onanunderwood5.blogspot.com/2019/03/perhaps-it-is-my-wish-to-be-devoured.html

“Perhaps it is my wish to be devoured”: Altha of Almuric by Karen Joan Kohoutek

WT May 1936
The strong swordswoman characters created by Robert E. Howard (like Bêlit, Valeria, Dark Agnes, and Red Sonya of Rogatino) garner a lot of attention, and deservedly so. But his work also features a completely different, but equally distinctive, mode of strong female character, as found in his science fiction novel, Almuric.

[El Borak]

www.fantasyliterature.com/reviews/almuric/

[El Borak]

[Admin Pete]

I've read these tales and Esau Cairn makes Conan look civilized by comparison. Esau Cairn is the most barbaric of Howard's characters.

[The Editor]

Apr 24, 2021 0:02:37 GMT -5 Admin Pete said:

I've read these tales and Esau Cairn makes Conan look civilized by comparison. Esau Cairn is the most barbaric of Howard's characters.

It contrasts with real people who are really big and strong who are often very gentle for the reason that it would be too easy to really hurt most people.

[Admin Pete]

Apr 26, 2021 1:06:10 GMT -5 The Editor said:

Apr 24, 2021 0:02:37 GMT -5 Admin Pete said:

I've read these tales and Esau Cairn makes Conan look civilized by comparison. Esau Cairn is the most barbaric of Howard's characters.

It contrasts with real people who are really big and strong who are often very gentle for the reason that it would be too easy to really hurt most people.

True that is often the case.