Campbell's kingdom - Hammond Innes

A draft of cold air touched my cheek. I turned from the papers with a start as something moved into the shack behind me. A man was shambling slowly towards the fire, his feet dragging, his long arms swinging loose, his huge body white as snow. His shadow flickered on the log walls. At the scrape of my chair he jerked round. His eyes widened, his mouth dropped, naked fear showing in his blackened face. Then he dropped to his knees and scrambled away from me like a horribly human land crab. "Go away!" he screamed. "Dear God, go away from me."