
Cold Ghost
In the frozen reaches of Alaska, a lone trapper hauls a heavy sled loaded with a season’s worth of furs, while his ailing partner shivers behind a woolen scarf. A relentless snowstorm turns the landscape into a white, howling abyss, and the dogs strain against the deep drifts as the two men battle the bitter cold, isolation, and the mounting pressure of an overdue trip to the nearest settlement.
Against this brutal backdrop, desperation twists into dark curiosity. The trapper’s mind roams from thoughts of wealth and a future on a fur ranch to a chilling notion that the only way to keep the profits for himself is to let his companion die. As the storm tightens its grip, the line between survival and murder begins to blur, setting the stage for a tense struggle of conscience amid unforgiving wilderness.
Language
en
Duration
~27 minutes (26K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Jun 4, 2010
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1921–1990
A prolific Golden Age science fiction writer, Chester S. Geier filled the pulp magazines of the 1940s and 1950s with imaginative tales of strange worlds, future technology, and supernatural mystery. He also wrote under several pseudonyms, leaving behind a varied and adventurous body of work.
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