The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson Upper Intermediate
A strange tale of grave robbing and murder in 1820s Edinburgh. A poor young medical student helps his professor obtain bodies for his anatomy class. But where are the corpses coming from?
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror story is based on the scandal of the real-life 'body-snatchers', Burke and Hare. Below is the trailer for a film version:
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Level: Upper Intermediate
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