Burke & Hare: The Graphic Novel

In this grimly comic graphic novel from Transfuzion Publishing, writer Martin Conaghan and artist Will Pickering reanimate the notorious true story of Burke and Hare, the 19th-century serial killers who sold their victims' corpses for medical dissection. A single-issue graphic novel released in 2011, it distills the dark farce of Edinburgh's body-snatching trade into a compact, atmospheric tale. The book stands as a focused, standalone exploration of a macabre chapter in criminal history, rendered with a sharp eye for period detail.