While Robert Louis Stevenson is best known for Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, his lesser-known work inspired lesser-known films, like The Body Snatcher. Celebrating its venerable 80th birthday today, The Body Snatcher was the seventh in a series of nine horror movies released by RKO Pictures and produced by Val Lewton. Based on an 1884 Stevenson short story, The Body Snatcher starred Boris Karloff as John Gray, a depraved carriage driver who also works as a grave robber for a well-known Edinburgh doctor named Wolfe MacFarlane (Henry Daniell). No matter how large their respective roles, Karloff and Lugosi brought electricity to their shared horror filmography. As for The Body Snatcher, it’s frequently ranked in the top tier of the Lewton horror oeuvre, and deservedly so.