The Body-Snatcher (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

<p><strong>A brilliant surgeon. A dark past. And the bodies that won't stay buried.</strong></p><p>Edinburgh 1820. Two ambitious medical students Fettes and Macfarlane are bound by a terrible secret: the corpses they dissect were not merely dug up but freshly murdered for their surgical table.</p><p>The mastermind is the renowned and respected surgeon Mr. K. But when Macfarlane and Fettes cross paths with the repulsive drunken coachman who supplies the bodies they find themselves dragged deeper into the grim trade of grave robbing deception and murder.</p><p>A single terrifying encounter on a dark road forces the students to confront the true horror of their crimes. As their lives descend into guilt paranoia and desperate measures the chilling conclusion proves that the dead rarely rest easily and sometimes the most horrific secrets are those you carry within yourself.</p><p><strong>A masterpiece of psychological horror <em>The Body-Snatcher</em> is Robert Louis Stevenson's dark compelling exploration of morality class and the grim price of medical progress.</strong></p>