![]() ![]() The following night, MacFarlane brings Gray's body along as a dissection sample. Later, Fettes meets MacFarlane at a tavern, along with a man named Gray, who treats MacFarlane in a rude manner. But MacFarlane talks him out of reporting the incident, lest they are both implicated in the crime. On one occasion, Fettes identifies a body as that of a woman he knew, and is convinced she has been murdered. Their duties included taking receipt of bodies for dissection, and paying the pair of shifty and suspicious men who supplied them. ![]() It transpires that MacFarlane and Fettes had attended medical school together, under the famous professor of anatomy, Robert Knox. Although his friends all find this behaviour suspicious, none of them can understand what might lie behind it. One of the friends, Fettes, recognizes the name and angrily confronts the new arrival. The story begins with a group of friends sharing a few drinks, when an eminent doctor, Wolfe MacFarlane, enters. First published in the Pall Mall Christmas "Extra", in December 1884, the story is based on characters in the employ of Robert Knox, around the time of the Burke and Hare murders. ![]() The Body Snatcher (1884) is a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The Body-Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson - Short Ghost Stories. ![]()
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