Fettes and Macfarlane are young Edinburgh medical students. They are also, under the guidance of a famous professor of anatomy, grave-robbers. As the pair resort to ever more extreme methods of acquiring fresh bodies, damnation looms…

Praise for Robert Louis Stevenson

‘My great writing hero’ -- Michael Morpurgo

GALLEY BEGGAR POCKET SHORTS is a new range celebrating the best in classic short fiction. Our first quartet will both chill and warm you with a selection of ghost stories from four of the English language’s finest writers: Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton, A.L. Barker and P.G. Wodehouse.