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The Ghoul and the Corpse
G. A. Wells · 1923 · Horror & Gothic
A frozen prospector reaches Aurora Bay with a blackened ivory knife and a story from the Tukuvuk headwaters, where blue glacier ice held a body that should have stayed impossible.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 17 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
G. A. WellsThe sparse publication record of the first-issue Weird Tales contributor, shown without an invented likeness.
The Characters of The Ghoul and the CorpseMacNeal, Chris Bonner and the Glacier Man as the story's locked identity source.
MacNeal — Profile
Aurora Bay to Tukuvuk
MacNeal's FireFood, pipe smoke and doubt frame Bonner's account.
Bonner's AccountThe chain of witness, proof and dread linking MacNeal to Bonner's glacier tale.
Bonner ArrivesThe impossible tale begins as a hungry prospector reaches shelter.
Gold in the ValleyGreed and winter pull the prospector toward blue ice.
This edition
- Title
- The Ghoul and the Corpse
- Author
- G. A. Wells (dates unknown)
- First published
- 1923
- Illustrated plates
- 34 original artworks · 17 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 1 · about 5,451 words
- Reading time
- 22 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- September 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
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