Analysis of the body snatcher jack finney vs stevenson
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The core of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story The Body Snatcher probably derives from an urban legend from the Edinburgh region. It was written in the Scottish village of Pitlochry, where Stevenson settled for a couple of summer months in 1881 with his American wife and their small family.
Stevenson valued the landlady at Pitlochry, Mrs Sim. Her daughter later recollected that on wet afternoons he would request one of her old stories of ghosts or resurrectionists. Stevenson was freshly enamoured with his own culture, it seems, rendered doubly dear by distant travel. Mrs Sim's storytelling was inspirational: from this brief stay emerged three of Stevenson's best-known stories. Thrawn Janet, written in Scots dialect, was sent off for publication immediately, and The Merry Men appeared in 1882. But The Body Snatcher was set aside. It seems that Stevenson or perhaps his wife Fanny, his “critic on the hearth”, initially had reservations: it may have needed further contemplation, or perhaps the story was felt to be too good to dispose of as a short tale. The Body Snatcher was finally published in 1884, and then only because another of his stories—Markheim, a commissioned Christmas ghost story for the Pall Mall Gazette—proved too brief and Stevenson could write no more, his chronic ill-health worsening at the time.
The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by American writer Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes real-life Mill Valley, California being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space. The seeds, grown from plantlike pods, replace sleeping people with perfect physical duplicates with all the same knowledge, memories, scars, etc. but are incapable of human emotion or feeling. The human victims disappear forever.