page_title: Body snatching
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Body snatching / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Screenshot from the trailer of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956). Film trailers from before 1964 are in the public domain. Source: http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index.jsp?cid=87210.
context_page_description: Body snatching is the secret removal of corpses from burial sites. A common purpose of body snatching, especially in the 19th century, was to sell the corpses for dissection or anatomy lectures in medical schools. Those who practised body snatching were often called "resurrectionists" or "resurrection-men". A related act is grave robbery, uncovering a tomb or crypt to steal artifacts or personal effects that had been buried with the deceased; however, grave robbery differs from body snatching in that grave robbing does not involve stealing the corpse itself.
context_section_description: A famous short story by Robert Louis Stevenson is "The Body Snatcher", adapted into a film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
  H. P. Lovecraft wrote of body snatchers in his novels The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and Herbert West–Reanimator.
  In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Injun Joe takes the opportunity to murder Dr. Robinson when he and Muff Potter are hired by him for body snatching.
  In Jonathan L. Howards novel Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, the eponymous protagonist practices body snatching.
  In Charles Dickens's novel, A Tale of Two Cities, Jerry Cruncher works as a "resurrection man" in addition to his work as a porter and messenger at Tellson's Bank.
  The Pet Shop Boys' song "The Resurrectionist" appeared as a bonus track on "I'm with Stupid", the first single from their 2006 album Fundamental.  The track is inspired by the book The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London by Sarah Wise. (See London Burkers.)
  The second track on Radiohead's 2007 album In Rainbows is titled "Bodysnatchers".
  In the film The Doctor and the Devils, Timothy Dalton plays an anatomist who runs Edinburgh's School of Anatomy in the 19th century.
  In the film I Sell the Dead, Dominic Monaghan and Larry Fessenden play two men who make a living stealing and selling corpses.
  In the 1985 novel City of Joy written by French Author and Fulbright Scholar, Dominique Lapierre, one sees how in order to pay for his daughter’s wedding, the dying rickshaw driver sells his bones for science. Hours after demise and before properly mourned, bone traders come to collect his bones.
  The 9th track of leATHERMØUTH's album XØ is titled "Bodysnatchers 4 Ever", and it talks about a man and his lover taking fresh bodies and somehow using them to live forever.
caption: Screenshot from the trailer of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
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