The Body Snatcher (1945)
“The Body Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson (21 pages long) is about grave robbers stealing bodies and selling them to medical colleges so that the medical students can dissect them and learn. The horror is that these body snatchers weren’t digging up bodies, they were murdering people so that the bodies they sold were fresh. This is based on the William Burke and William Hare murders. Dr. Robert Knox, who is referred to as ‘Dr. K____’ in the short story, was the doctor they sold the corpses too.