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Author : Jack Finney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501117823
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Invasion of the Body Snatchers written by Jack Finney and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The classic science fiction novel"--Cover.
Author : Suzie Lennox
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473866561
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Bodysnatchers written by Suzie Lennox and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grim history of England’s bodysnatching trade: “Lennox’s thorough exploration is riveting” (Naomi Clifford, author of The Disappearance of Maria Glenn). From the string of murders committed by Burke and Hare, a pair of ghouls who are still the stuff of pop culture legend, to the lesser-known but equally gruesome grave-robbing exploits of Henry Gillies, William Patrick, and Joseph Grainger, here is the fascinating true chronicle of England’s “Resurrection Men.” During the winter months of 1742–1832, selling fresh cadavers to anatomists up and down the country, all in aid of medical advancement, was the surest way to earn a living for desperate men. After all, anatomy schools would pay high prices for corpses to dissect—the fresher the better. And they asked no questions as to their origins. This resulted in the criminal underworld of the “Sack ‘em up Men” who left behind disinterred churchyards and burial grounds, and spread fear and horror throughout the United Kingdom. In Bodysnatchers, Suzie Lennox unearths the truth behind the macabre tales, separating fact from folktale, and setting the record straight about Britain’s gruesome, often forgotten history.
Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750952768
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Scottish Bodysnatchers written by Geoff Holder and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graverobbing was a dark but profitable industry in pre-Victorian Scotland – criminals, gravediggers and middle-class medical students alike abstracted newly-buried corpses to send to the anatomy schools. Only after the trials of the infamous murderers Burke and Hare and the passing of the Anatomy Act of 1832 did the grisly trade end. From burial grounds in the heart of Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh to quiet country graveyards in the Scottish Borders and Aberdeenshire, this book takes you to every cemetery ever raided, and reveals where you can find extant pieces of anti-resurrectionist graveyard furniture, from mortsafes, coffin cages and underground vaults to watchtowers and morthouses. Richly illustrated, filled with hundreds of stories of ‘reanimated’ corpses, daring thefts, black-hearted murders and children sold to the slaughter by their own mothers, and with Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic short story The Body Snatcher at the end, this macabre guide will delight everyone who loves Scotland's dark past.
Author : Brian Keaney
Publisher : Orchard Books
ISBN 13 : 1408315564
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Nathaniel Wolfe and the Bodysnatchers written by Brian Keaney and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead cannot rest in peace. Bodysnatchers are plundering the graveyard and stirring up more than they bargained for. It's a job for a ghost hunter! But first Nathaniel Wolfe must take a terrifying journey to the Other Side and put right a terrible wrong...
Author : Mark Morris
Publisher : BBC Books
ISBN 13 : 9780563405689
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Bodysnatchers written by Mark Morris and published by BBC Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation, a gruesome business is being conducted. The bodies of the dead are being stolen from their graves -- men, women, and children alike -- for the sinister purpose of a very mysterious gentleman. When the Doctor and Sam arrive, they are witnesses to a horrifying scene in the evil-smelling fog: something rises up from the filthy waters of the Thames and devours a man -- a man terrified for his life and on the run from the devil himself. Teaming up with an old friend, pathologist George Litefoot, the Doctor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Together with Sam, they discover there is a far graver threat facing London than just earthly grave robbers. Deadly alien beings the Doctor has encountered before are at work, and they bring a whole new twist to the word "bodysnatchers."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Barbra Reifel
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1642933198
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)
Download or read book The Body Snatcher’s Wife written by Barbra Reifel and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbra Reifel, former wife of notorious Body Snatcher Michael Mastromarino, has appeared on Oprah, Nancy Grace, ID Discovery, and Lifetime. Never before has her raw account been laid so bare. Fairytale shattered, deceit and danger beyond her wildest nightmares, betrayal, addiction, abuse, ultimate crime, and utter destruction beyond reason—her riveting story is one of so many. To survive, protect her children and family, and combat the monster who was her husband, Barbra evolved…a dreamer turned badass, playing his game to the bittersweet end.
Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735242321
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Lifesavers and Body Snatchers written by Tim Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *FINALIST FOR THE 2023 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 TEMPLER MEDAL FOR BEST BOOK* From Canada’s top war historian, a definitive medical history of the Great War, illuminating how the carnage of modern battle gave birth to revolutionary life-saving innovations. It brings to light shocking revelations of the ways the brutality of combat and the necessity of agonizing battlefield decisions led to unimaginable strain for men and women of medicine who fought to save the lives of soldiers. Medical care in almost all armies during the Great War, and especially in the Canadian medical services, was sophisticated and constantly evolving. Vastly more wounded soldiers were saved than lost. Doctors and surgeons prevented disease from decimating armies, confronted ghastly wounds from chemical weap-ons, remade shattered bodies, and struggled to ease soldiers’ battle-haunted minds. After the war, the hard lessons learned by doctors and nurses were brought back to Canada. A new Department of Health created guidelines in the aftermath of the 1918–1919 influ-enza pandemic, which had killed 55,000 Canadians and millions around the world. In a grim irony, the fight to improve civilian health was furthered by the most destructive war up to that point in human history. But medical advances were not the only thing brought back from Europe: Lifesavers and Body Snatchers exposes the disturbing story of the harvesting of human body parts in medical units behind the lines. Tim Cook has spent over a decade investigating the history of Canadian medical doctors removing the body parts of slain soldiers and transporting their brains, lungs, bones, and other organs to the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) in London, England. Almost 800 individual body parts were removed from the dead and sent to London, where they were stored, treated, and presented in exhibition galleries. After being exhibited there, the body parts were displayed in Canada. This uncovered history has never been told before and is part of the hidden legacy of the medical war. Based on deep archival research and unpublished letters of soldiers and medical personnel, Lifesavers and Body Snatchers is a powerful narrative, told in Cook’s literary style, which reveals how the medical services supported the soldiers at the front and forged a profound legacy in shaping Canadian public health in the decades that followed.
Author : Nick Redfern
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416510168
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Body Snatchers in the Desert written by Nick Redfern and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Body Snatchers in the Desert reveals the events that really happened in the New Mexico desert in 1947 that birthed the Rosewell Myth. "RAAF captures flying saucer on ranch in Roswell region." Ever since this provocative headline appeared on July 8, 1947, conspiracy theorists have sincerely believed that the U.S. government has maintained an extensive operation of cover-up-and-denial regarding its knowledge of alien life. But there was, in fact, no UFO crash with dead alien bodies. What really happened on that fateful day is much more sinister. The persistent rumors surrounding the UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, are part of a bigger conspiracy—one orchestrated and fostered by the government itself as a smokescreen to bury a truth that is much darker, and disturbingly, far more believable. Now, through never-before-revealed testimony from military whistleblowers, eyewitness intelligence reports, and an astonishing body of corroborative evidence, Nick Redfern lays out a shockingly plausible new theory on the Roswell incident: that the crash-site discovery of prototype military aircraft would expose a damning secret—a highly confidential, U.S. government-sanctioned program to conduct medical experiments on deformed, handicapped, disfigured, and diseased Japanese POWs, exploited as "expendable" victims by their captors. An important account that forces us to take a closer look at both the Roswell story and post-war American history, Body Snatchers in the Desert casts a startling, new light on a shocking conspiracy more than half a century in the making.
Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Body-snatcher written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert S. Desowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393325461
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus written by Robert S. Desowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has been confident that biomedical science would protect it from devastating plagues. The wake-up call sounded at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, West Nile virus, malaria and African sleeping sickness. Desowitz traces the histories of these diseases and the issues people must confront about them.
Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743136
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Talking About Detective Fiction written by P. D. James and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting. Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.
Author : Robert S. Desowitz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393051858
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus written by Robert S. Desowitz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a novelist, Desowitz traces the histories of the world's devastating diseases and the issues all must confront--the morality and legality of patent laws; the effect of global warming on epidemics; public support for the commercial biomedical industry; and the terrifying shadow of bioterrorism. 8 illustrations.
Author : Suzanne M. Shultz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786422326
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Body Snatching written by Suzanne M. Shultz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also called "resurrectionists," body snatchers, were careful not to take anything from the grave but the body--stealing only the corpse was not considered a felony since the courts had already said that a dead body had no owner. ("Burking"--i.e., murder--was the alternative method of supplying "stiffs" to medical schools; it is covered here as well). This book recounts the practice of grave robbing for the medical education of American medical students and physicians during the late 1700s and 1800s in the US, why body snatching came about and how disinterment was done, and presents information on: efforts to prevent the practice, a group of professional grave robbers, and the European experience.
Author : Colin Dexter
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 1743290632
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The Silent World Of Nicholas Quinn: An Inspector Morse Mystery 3 written by Colin Dexter and published by Pan. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM CWA CARTIER DIAMOND DAGGER AWARD WINNER COLIN DEXTER Morse had never ceased to wonder why, with the staggering advances in medical science, all pronouncements concerning times of death seemed so disconcertingly vague. The newly appointed member of the Oxford Examinations Syndicate was deaf, provincial and gifted. Now he is dead . . . And his murder, in his north Oxford home, proves to be the start of a formidably labyrinthine case for Chief Inspector Morse, as he tries to track down the killer through the insular and bitchy world of the Oxford Colleges . . . PRAISE FOR THE INSPECTOR MORSE SERIES "The Inspector Morse series, both the novels and the television dramas, are among the finest creations of British culture and are known and loved all over the world." Sydney Morning Herald "Let those who lament the decline of the English detective story reach for Colin Dexter" Guardian
Author : Kevin McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933586076
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Invasion of the Body Snatchers written by Kevin McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised edition of the original book published by Boulevard in 1999. It includes a new interview with actor Kevin McCarthy, many photos from his private collection, complete film credits, and a full bibliography of author Jack Finney, who wrote the original novel on which the film was based.
Author : Ronald Kidd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416958924
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Year of the Bomb written by Ronald Kidd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1955, and Paul and his friends are excited when filming of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" begins in their small California town. But they soon become involved in a conspiracy that puts them in real danger.
Author : Joshua Viola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733917759
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (177 download)
Download or read book It Came from the Multiplex written by Joshua Viola and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to tonight's feature presentation, brought to you by an unholy alliance of our spellcasters at Hex Publishers and movie-mages at the Colorado Festival of Horror. Please be advised that all emergency exits have been locked for this special nostalgia-curdled premierre of death. From crinkling celluloid to ferocious flesh--from the silver screen to your hammering heart--behold as a swarm of werewolves, serial killers, Satanists, Elder Gods, aliens, ghosts, and unclassifiable monsters are loosed upon your auditorium. Relax, and allow our ushers to help with your buckets of popcorn--and blood; your ticket stubs--and severed limbs; your comfort candy--and body bags. Kick back and scream as you settle into a fate worse than Hell. Tonight's director's cut is guaranteed to slash you apart.
