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Escape: "Study in Wax" 02/01/1953

I don't think winter in WI is the time to hear about a story about cabin fever.
http://www.escape-suspense.com/2007/12/escape---a-stud.html

Escape's "A Study in Wax" takes place in a snowbound cabin in the northern Canadian wilderness. The story is set at Christmas-time, but it isn't a typical Christmas tale. This is a story about two coworkers, alone in the Arctic, who must endure each other's company for seven months.

As the story opens in late October, the two men watch a government supply boat depart. They have been left behind to work on a Canadian geodetic survey, and now, they are on their own until the spring. Adding to their isolation is the accidental loss of their radio transmitter. With no connection to the outside world, one of them slowly goes mad.

And it makes me really happy that organizations today that send people into the cold for 7 months do mental tests to make sure people are going to survive ok (apparently, guys who grow up in a city who like Shostakovich really don't do well).

Although the one guy knew the other one was going to be trouble when he started getting antsy in November.