#eBook: The Ghoul and the Corpse by G. A. Wells
"The Ghoul and the Corpse” is a strange Northern tale that might be the very first “frozen caveman” story. This story begins with the narrator, MacNeal, telling us that Chris Bonner is a liar. Bonner relates his adventure with the caveman but we aren’t to believe anything we hear. At Aurora Bay in Alaska, MacNeal sat with Bonner and shared a meal and a pipe of tobacco. Bonner discusses how the Earth’s poles shifted long ago, causing the Arctic to freeze. Then he hands MacNeal a strange knife made from ivory. It is covered in old blood.
"Then, apparently, the thing saw me for the first time. The way it glared at me with those glittering eyes was a caution. I didn’t stop to argue; I snatched up the rifle, cocked it and made a snap shot."
George Albert Wells, born 22 May 1926 and died 23 January 2017, was an English scholar who served as Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London. After writing books about famous European intellectuals, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and Franz Grillparzer, he turned to the study of the historicity of Jesus, starting with his book The Jesus of the Early Christians in 1971. He is best known as an advocate of the thesis that Jesus is essentially a mythical rather than a historical figure, a theory that was pioneered by German biblical scholars such as Bruno Bauer and Arthur Drews.
First Published 1923
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