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Print (Newspaper) Publication date. December 1884. " The Body Snatcher " is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894). First published in The Pall Mall Gazette in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in the employ of the surgeon Robert Knox (1791–1862) around the time of the notorious Burke and ...
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Overview. “The Body Snatcher” is a Gothic short story by Robert Louis Stevenson that was originally published in 1884 in the Pall Mall Gazette. This story is told by an unnamed first-person narrator who recounts the tale of two medical students who obtain bodies for dissection for an anatomy professor. The story is based on historical ...
The Body Snatcher is an English Adventure, Historical Fiction short story by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in 1884. The Body Snatcher was first published in the Pall Mall Christmas 'Extra' in December 1884. It is featured in our collection of Halloween Stories.
Stevenson’s short story The Body Snatcher was actually published in the Christmas edition of the Pall Mall Gazette in 1884. Yes, you’ve read correctly: A Christmas edition. But then, a lot of 19th century ghost stories had a Christmas background, as Victorians apparently liked it to pass their Yuletides gathering round a blazing fire and ...
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Oct 9, 2018 · Most famous of all Stevenson’s short horror stories, "The Body Snatcher" is truly a masterpiece of weird fiction, and is even endowed with some Lovecraftian sensibilities. The story is famously inspired by the Anatomy Murders of Burke and Hare – two churls who murdered sixteen tenets in their boarding house, selling the corpses to Dr Knox ...
The Body Snatcher. Full Plot Summary. In Debenham, a village in the Suffolk district of England, the story begins with four men drinking in an inn called the George. There’s an undertaker, a landlord, a man named Fettes, and the unnamed narrator who describes Fettes. Fettes is known as “the Doctor” because he’s educated and has ...
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One night, the body of Jane Galbraith, a woman Fettes had seen alive and well only the day before, is brought to the rooms. Fettes suspects foul play and confronts the class assistant Wolfe Macfarlane. Macfarlane confirms it was murder but warns Fettes to say nothing. After work one night, Fettes meets Macfarlane who is accompanied by an ...
