In the 18th and 19th centuries, "body snatchers" (also known as resurrectionists) were individuals who exhumed recently buried corpses to sell them to medical schools for anatomical dissection.
Published in 1884, this Gothic short story was directly inspired by the Burke and Hare murders. Body Snatchers
: The story follows a medical student named Fettes who is tasked with receiving bodies for his professor. He eventually recognizes one of the "donations" as a man named Gray, whom he had seen alive and well just hours before. In the 18th and 19th centuries, "body snatchers"