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eBook Category: Horror Year's Best Horror Selection
eBook Description: A murderer has good reason to pickle his victims eyes, tongues, and noses. At least he thought so, in his twisted mind.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Other Edens II, 1988
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2000

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I still have the ear of the resurrection man. It hasn't fallen to pieces.

Oh, I don't mean the ear of Jesus. I'm referring to a different resurrection man. Namely, William Burke--of Burke and Hare fame, or infamy if you prefer. Maybe you don't prefer. Perhaps, though this strikes me as unlikely, you're a little rusty as to the activities of Mr B and Mr H, back in the 1820s?

If so, let me hold forth. (You can't really stop me, can you?) William Burke, an Irishman, grew up as a vagabond in County Cork. In 1818, when he was twenty-six years old, he moved to Scotland to work as a navvy on the Union Canal, then under construction. A certain William Hare from Londonderry was engaged in the same task. Hare moved on to become a huckster and presently the keeper of an Edinburgh doss-house, Log's lodging-house in Tanner's Close. Burke took up residence there in 1827. That November an old lonely pensioner died in the house. Instead of having the body decently buried, Messrs B & H hit on the bright idea of selling the corpse to Dr Robert Knox's school of anatomy, for dissection by students.

The windfall of seven pounds and ten shillings persuaded these two rough Williams that there was good money to be made. Soon they, and their common-law wives, were luring lonesome travellers into various houses, getting the wretches drunk then suffocating them. They used suffocation so that the corpses should seem uninjured. The culpable, or gullible, Dr Knox provided a ready market until the October of 1828 when at last his suspicious neighbours tipped off the police. Raiding Knox's home in their chimney-pipe hats, the police discovered an old woman's body in a box in the cellar.