SOLVED. Sci fi short story, VR, man mauled in a dystopian world

[Eugene]

I apologize if the topic is too vague, but it's a short story and there's not much plot there.

I read it sometime in the 1990s in a short story anthology, it might have been by someone like Pohl or Silverberg (or possibly someone totally unrelated).

The gist of it is, the protagonist lives in a remote frozen settlement, there are no facilities, he has to survive by hunting and heat the house by chopping wood for the wood-fired stove, he's married to the ugliest woman in for a hundred miles in any direction, who also hates his guts. In the story, the danger catches up with him, and he's mauled (possibly has his leg bitten off) by a wild animal (possibly a wolf). Bleeding, he drags himself to a simulation tank he has in the house...

[Eugene]

Found it. "In the Imagicon" by George Henry Smith (1966) https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v2...

[Bargle]

Story was included in Nebula Award Stories 2.