The Body Snatcher
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Grave robbing

The story concerns two medical students in Edinburgh who manage dissection for their teacher, a thinly disguised anatomist Dr. Robert Knox, who purchased cadavers from the infamous murderers William Burke and William Hare. The characters Fettes and Macfarlane serve as a prototype for both Jekyll and Hyde, in Stevenson's novel published two years later in 1886.