G. A. Wells

The public record consulted for G. A. Wells begins with a byline, not a settled biography. The name appears above “The Ghoul and the Corpse” in the first issue of Weird Tales, dated March 1923. The issue’s contents page describes it as one of the magazine’s short stories; the surviving story text gives no biographical note about its writer. The sources reviewed for this entry do not establish Wells’s full name, life dates, birthplace or occupation, so none is supplied here.

The story itself is a northern adventure shaped around a frozen body and the account of a prospecting journey. That description belongs to the fiction, not to Wells’s life. The magazine credit is a concrete historical fact: it places the name among the contributors in the launch issue, beside writers with careers that later became much better documented. Bibliographies and modern discussions return to the same credit, but they do not yet provide a dependable bridge from “G. A. Wells” to a fuller identity. For now, the careful biography is the trace the record actually preserves: a name, a title, a magazine and a date.