The medical students are described as being indifferent and in one case happy about receiving the cadaver, which they proceed to cut apart. To hide the evidence, the body is sold for medical experiments. There is a scene in the story where one of the medical research assistants murders a person named Gray. This is the aspect of the story I want to explore in this post. It’s really good! I am not going to say anything else about it-just read it.įinally, I see this story as a parable about the horrors of science and how science, when void of compassion and humanity, becomes a dark art. Anyway, this story vividly brought those memories back to me. It was fascinating and eerie at the same time. Several years ago, while I was visiting Scotland, I toured the catacombs of Edinburgh where the body snatchers would hide the cadavers before bringing them to the university to sell them to the science department for dissection. First off, the writing is excellent and really draws you in to the story, which is about the cadaver trade in Edinburgh. The story works for me on several levels. In my quest for stuff to read and write about for my October horror blog series, I searched the free e-books available for download on the iPad and found The Body-Snatcher.
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