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The Body Snatcher Written by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Roy McMillan £3.99 (49 mins)

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"...blood-curdling enough - and ugly enough - to chill the blood of a grenadier". So said Stevenson himself of The Body Snatcher, one of his best-known short stories. Richly atmospheric and brilliantly ghoulish, it tells the story of a man who is reminded of his part in a grisly crime.

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