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Short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Body Snatcher"
Short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
Country
Scotland
Language
English
Genre(s)
Supernatural horror
Publication
Publication type
Newspaper
Publisher
Pall Mall Gazette
Media type
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 Hare murders in 1828.[1][2]
^Richarson, Ruth (31 January 2015). "Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher". The Lancet. 385 (9966): 412–413. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60144-1. PMID 25713852.
^Moore, Pamela (19 December 1996). "The Body Snatcher". medhum.med.nyu.edu. New York University. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
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