Because I need a wee bit more time to finish up the concluding episode on the Axeman of

New Orleans, I decided I'd drop a mini-horror story bonus with a reading of The Body Snatcher.

The Body Snatcher was written by Robert Lewis Stevenson and was first published in December

of 1884 in the Paul Mall Christmas Extra Edition. Before listening to this telling of the fictional

Body Snatching story, you may want to go back and listen to Episode 10 grave matters in

Edinburgh of this podcast to get the real backstory and the people and events that inspired Stevenson.

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The Body Snatcher.

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The Body Snatcher by Robert Lewis Stevenson. Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small

parlor of the George at Devonham, the undertaker and the landlord and Fets in myself.

Sometimes there'll be more, but low high, low low come rain or snow or frost. Wee four would be

each planted in his own particular armchair. Fets was an old drunken Scotsman. A man of education

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