The Body-Snatcher

The Body-Snatcher

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
1884 • 38 pages

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An uncanny thriller!

"The Body Snatcher" is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in The Pall Mall Gazette in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in the employ of the surgeon Robert Knox around the time of the notorious Burke and Hare murders in 1828.

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Endorsing evil
familiar faces ignored
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