Seven beats from our edition of The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson, shuffled. Drag them, or use the arrows, until the story runs straight. No account, no streak to lose.
This one is set for Monday, 21 September 2026, so you are early. Play today's instead.
::The tavern fireYears later, the old drunkard Fettes recognizes the visiting Dr. Macfarlane and confronts him, setting the buried past loose.Frame
::Mr. K's assistantFettes recalls his youth receiving corpses for the anatomist Mr. K, paid for in cash and asking no questions.Backstory
::Jane GalbraithFettes recognizes a delivered body as a woman alive the day before, realizing she was murdered, not exhumed.Suspicion
::Pressured to silenceMacfarlane talks Fettes into keeping quiet and accepting the money, binding him to the trade's evil.Complicity
::The body of GrayMacfarlane kills a man named Gray and delivers the corpse, making Fettes an accomplice to outright murder.Murder
::Robbing a country graveShort of subjects, the two ride into the rainy night to dig up a freshly buried farmer's wife themselves.The grave
::The thing in the gigOn the dark road dread mounts, and by lantern light the body has transformed into the long-dead, murdered Gray.Horror
Solved. That is the shape of the story.
Each beat is labelled with its place in the arc now. The full reading, with themes, symbols and the ending explained, is in the The Body Snatcher edition.