Filmy spores fall from space over San Francisco, and the city blossoms with beautiful new flora. People take the flowers home and as they sleep, the plants creep over them, devouring their bodies and stealing their identities--including their emotions, their uniqueness and their souls.

There is a world that thrives all around us - even upon us and within us. It is the world of the microscopic parasite. Although this unique cast of tiny characters represents half of all life-forms, much of their dazzlingly varied universe remains a mystery to us. Understanding how such denizens survive in some of the planet's most inhospitable environments is, perhaps, the most intriguing challenge of all. In this program, an authority from the Centers...

The Body-Snatchers is a "crawler" in Stevenson's words, a tale of an avenging ghost and two medical students assigned to procure a corpse for an anatomy class. Includes: The Isle of Voices and The Waif Woman

Conducting a dual investigation in the opium dens of San Francisco's Chinatown, Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon search for missing millionaires against a backdrop of a brewing Tong war.

A lively look at the practice of body snatching for medical studies in nineteenth-century Scotland. Also covers cases of murders that took place to keep up with the demand for corpses to study.

Praise for The Body Snatcher:

"An excellent and atypical book, a fantastic adventure."—The Huffington Post

"An explosive mixture of dread, greed and corruption. You won't put it down until you've read the very last page."—Cosmopolitan

This tightly plotted novel by Brazil's best-selling crime author is a tale of drug dealing gone wrong, police corruption, and macabre blackmail, set in a heat-soaked

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Naxos Audio presents a collection of popular stories by famed Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, including The Body Snatcher, The Bottle Imp, The Poor Thing. In each story, Stevenson tests the facets of morality and guilt and their relationship with the human condition.

"From 2001 to 2013, Mike Vecchione was chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, which was the largest urban prosecution agency in the country. Vecchione grappled with organized crime and dirty politicians, during which he supervised, investigated, and prosecuted major felony cases.Crooked Brooklyn is a gritty story of corruption, greed and law enforcement. Vecchione navigated a political minefield and expertly rose...

I walked with a zombie: A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who suffers from a strange catatonic condition. Robert Louis Stevenson's The body snatcher: A surgeon pays an unscrupulous body snatcher to deliver fresh cadavers to him.