Dr. Rock
A renowned and driven anatomist who is single-mindedly devoted to the idea that the study of anatomy rises above all other moral and ethical considerations. To further his study, he engages the services of two graverobbers, but transforms them through the simple of act of terminology into “Resurrectionists.” Still, they are just graverobbers.
Fallon and Broom
The central Resurrectionists of the drama—the graverobbers—are given the names Fallon and Broom. But they might be better known to some as the infamous Burke and Hare. For the story is based upon real events. Burke and Hare worked as graverobbers to assist Dr. Knox (our own Dr. Rock, of course) in his pursuit of learning everything which could be learned about anatomy from buried corpses.
Jennie Bailey
Jennie is a beautiful twenty-year old girl described as having spent half those years “trying to defeat her beauty.” By which is mean she turned prostitute. Fallon and Broom don’t like Jennie—purely for transactional reasons—and soon set their murderous eyes upon her. Oh, perhaps it should be mentioned that Fallon and Broom decide it may be easier to just find fresh corpses than actually dig them up. And therein sets the stage for dramatic conflict.
Dr. Murray
Dr. Rock’s assistant. Under normal circumstances this would mean being limited to assisting with anatomical study. But these are not normal circumstances and his primary job is to procure the bodies to be worked upon. This turn out to be rather easier than one might suspect since his funding is robust. Making matters more complicated is the fact that, well, a fresh corpse is so much better for studying anatomy than a decomposing one.
