body-snatchers
Grave-robbing criminals
Body-snatchers are people who steal corpses, historically to sell them for medical dissection when legal cadavers were scarce.
The term evokes 19th-century grave robbers who supplied anatomy schools.
By extension, body-snatchers appears in science fiction for aliens or creatures that take over human bodies: Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Those who exhume corpses illegally
- exhumationRecovering buried remains
- disintermentExcavating a grave
- cadaverBody for dissection
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
surgical · Burke · graveyard · coffin · necropolis · shovel · moonlight · ghouls
Forcible entry into territory
- aliensBeings from other worlds
- clonesGenetically identical copies
- replicantsArtificial beings duplicating humans
- doppelgangersGhostly identical strangers
parasites · possession · changelings · duplicates · infestation · assimilation · imposters · infiltration
Eerily beyond normal
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- eerieDisturbingly strange
sinister · chilling · creepy · grotesque · ghastly · paranoia · distrust · suspicion
Unlawful seizure of person
- black-marketIllicit trading network
- abductionUnlawful seizure of person
- ransomPayment for captive's release
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
exploitation · coercion · hostage · criminality · underworld · gangs · victims · illegal
resurrectionists
Those who exhume corpses illegally
- exhumationRecovering buried remains
- disintermentExcavating a grave
- cadaverBody for dissection
anatomy · surgical · Burke · graveyard · coffin · necropolis · shovel · moonlight · ghouls · mortuary
invasion
Forcible entry into territory
- aliensBeings from other worlds
- clonesGenetically identical copies
- replicantsArtificial beings duplicating humans
doppelgangers · parasites · possession · changelings · duplicates · infestation · assimilation · imposters · infiltration · replacement
uncanny
Eerily beyond normal
- suspenseAnxious uncertainty about outcomes
- thrillerSuspense-driven narrative genre
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
eerie · sinister · chilling · creepy · grotesque · ghastly · paranoia · distrust · suspicion · impersonation
kidnapping
Unlawful seizure of person
- black-marketIllicit trading network
- abductionUnlawful seizure of person
- ransomPayment for captive's release
smuggling · exploitation · coercion · hostage · criminality · underworld · gangs · victims · illegal · harvesting
body-snatcherssextons
Church building keepers
gravekeepers · gravediggers · undertakers · morticians · embalmers
body, bodies, bodied, bodily, embody, embodied, embodiment, embodying, disembodied