The Body Snatchers

The Body Snatcher is Stevenson's fictitious retelling of Burke and Hare murders which shocked the Edinburgh society in the early 19th century. Burke and Hare duo were employed by Professor Robert Knox, a leading anatomy Professor, to supply dead bodies for dissection. But the ways and means these two criminals adopted to procure bodies to "sell" them to the professor were more than appalling. Stevenson has taken some of these incidents from Burke and Hare trials and created this short Gothic... Voir plus