The Body Snatcher is a 1884 short story by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The characters in the tale were based on criminals in who worked real-life surgeon Robert Knox about the time of the notorious 1828 Burke and Hare murders. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1884/12/00 | Robert Louis Stevenson | Author | R L Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher" is caught in the Pall Mall Gazette's Christmas Extra. | ||||
| 1884/12/00 | The Pall Mall Gazette | Publisher | R L Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher" is caught in the Pall Mall Gazette's Christmas Extra. |
| Particulars for The Body Snatcher (short story): | |||
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| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Supernatural | Ghost | an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Art Type | Short Story | short form narrative fiction | |
| Paranormal | Supernatural | manifestation or event attributed to some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature | |
| Literary Attribute | Victorian Ghost Story | supernatural stories of mystery, atmospheric settings, but typically not horror or violent | |
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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