Dec. 3, 2021

This Day in Halloween: Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher" is published in London’s Pall Mall Gazette newspaper in 1884. / Illustration by Madison Kemp

The Body Snatcher is published in London’s Pall Mall Gazette newspaper in 1884. The Robert Louis Stevenson short story is later published in a collection of short stories soon after Stevenson’s death and was made into a movie in 1945 by Val Lewton starring Boris Karloff.