BURKE AND HARE

Their History and Ultimate Ends

Biography

• The Trial of the Body Snatchers (from Adam Lyal's Witchery Tales)

• The Trials of Burke and Hare (advertisement; contains a useful summary of the trials)

• Burke and Hare (William Roughead ed. Repr. Of the 1948 Notable Trials edition).

• Douglas MacGowan, Mr. Burke and Mr. Hare

• Adam Lyal, The Trial of the Body Snatchers (excerpt), from WitcheryTales)

In Fiction, Film and the Arts

• The Anatomist (1961)
• The Horrors of Burke and Hare (1971)

• The Body Snatcher

• The Body Snatcher (1945, Robert Wise dir.) Based on a story by Robert Louis Stevenson.

• The Grave (Republic Entertainment, 1996).

BURKE AND HARE IN POPULAR CULTURE: TOURS

• The Grisly Echoes of Burke and Hare

• The Grassmarket and the Cowgate (Notable Sites in Edinburgh)

• The Witchery Tours

• Ghost and History Walking Tours of Edinburgh

• Adventure: Where Restless Spirits Wander

• The Royal Medical Society

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brown, John W., The Streatham Grave Robbers: A Tale of Attempted Body Snatching in Streatham in 1814 (1998).

Combe, George, Answer to "Observations on the Phrenological Development of Burke, Hare, and Other Atrocious Murderers, &c. (Edinburgh: J. Anderson et al., 1829). See also work by Stone, below.

Douglas, Hugh, Burke and Hare (1973).

Edwards, Owen Dudley, Burke & Hare (2d ed.; 1993).

Edwards, Linden Forest, Dr. Frederick C. Waite's correspondence with reference to grave robbery, Ohio State Medical Journal, April and May, 1958.

Langley, Andrew, Twenty Names in Crime (Reference ed.; 1988)(Twenty Names series). Includes short biographies of William Kidd, Jonathan Wild, Anne Bonny, Dick Turpin, Burke and Hare, Kaspar Hauser, Madeline Smith, Ned Kelly, Sophie Lyons, Lizzie Borden, Butch Cassidy, Dr. Neil Crippen, Mata Hari, Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, Han van Meegeren, Salvatore Giuliano, Lee Harvey Oswald, Emil Savundra, Phoolan Devi. Young adult literature.

MacGregor, George, The History of Burke and Hare and of the Resurrectionist Times: A Fragment From the Criminal Annals of Scotland (Glasgow: T. D. Morison, 1884). Available as part of the 19^th century legal treatises collection (no. 67698-67701).

Mackay, John, The True Story of Burke & Hare (1995).

Marshall, Tim, Murdering to Dissect: Grave-Robbing, Frankenstein, and the Anatomy Literature (1995).

Nelson, Rodney B., The Franklin Institute: Illinois’ First Medical School: Being Also a History of Resurrection and a Primer on the Art of Grave Robbing (Geneva, IL: Grant House Press, 1991).

Sappol, Michael, Cultural Politics of Anatomy in 19^th Century America: Death, Dissection, and Embodied Social Identity (Dissertation, Columbia University, 1997).

Stone, Thomas, Observations on the Phrenological Development of Burke, Hare, and Other Atrocious Murderers: Measurements of the Most Notorious Thieves Confined in the Edinburgh Jail and Bridewell, and of Various Individuals, English, Scotch, and Irish, Presenting an Extensive Series of Facts Subversive of Phrenology (Edinburgh: Robert Buchanan, 1829). See also work by Combe, above.

Waite, Frederick C., Grave Robbing in New England, 33 Medical Library Association Bulletin 272 (July 1945).

NOVELS

Byrd, Elizabeth, Rest Without Peace: A Novel of Burke and Hare (1974).

Cohen, Daniel, The Body Snatchers (1975)(The Weird and Horrible Library). Young adult literature.

Minahan, John, The Great Grave Robbery (1989).

Plays

• Burke, Raymond, The Return of Burke and Hare: A Musical Comedy (1994).

• Edwards, Owen Dudley, Hare and Burke: As Performed Around Greyfriars Churchyard & Elsewhere: A Play (1994).

Esoterica

• The Origins of the Word "Napping" (as in Body-Napping)

• Sculptor Jailed For Theft of Body Parts

ONLINE CATALOG SEARCH TERMS

    Body snatching

 Burke, James

Grave robbing

Hare, William