Bryn Taleweaver brings a chilling tale to the firecirle this week: Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher - a short story first published in the Pall Mall Christmas
"Extra" in December 1884, its characters were based on criminals in
the employ of real-life surgeon Robert Knox (1791–1862) around the time of the
notorious Burke and Hare murders (1828).
Presented live in voice.
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