The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Prepare yourself for a chilling journey into the dark underbelly of 19th-century Edinburgh, where the pursuit of medical knowledge leads down a treacherous path of moral corruption and supernatural terror. In Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher," you'll follow the descent of a promising young medical student as he becomes entangled in a web of grave robbing, murder, and haunting guilt. As the line between science and sacrilege blurs, and the dead refuse to rest quietly, you'll find yourself questioning the limits of ambition and the price of progress. With each twist of this Gothic tale, the tension mounts, culminating in a heart-stopping climax that will leave you breathless. Are you brave enough to unearth the secrets that lie buried in the night? Listen now, if you dare, but be warned: some truths, once exhumed, can never be laid to rest again. Full notes here https://tonywalker.craft.me/bodysnatcher Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:12.0	The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson.
1:17.6	Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham,
1:23.4	the undertaker and the landlord and Fettys and myself.
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