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Edinburgh's Dark Side Walking Tour
Edinburgh

From body-snatching graveyards to the real haunts of Inspector Rebus, seven stops tracing the murders, doubles, and dark secrets that forged Edinburgh's literary soul.

7 stops · 4.1 km

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The Covenanters & Body Snatchers

The mausoleum of "Bloody" Mackenzie, set in a graveyard whose body-snatching history inspired Stevenson's The Body Snatcher.

The Heart of Rebus

The real police station that serves as Inspector Rebus's operational base, still a working precinct today.

The Hidden Slums

Subterranean vaults where bootleggers hid and the city's poorest once lived, forgotten for over a century before their rediscovery in the 1980s.

Deacon Brodie: The Real Jekyll & Hyde

The respected councilman by day, burglar by night, whose double life inspired Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The Writer's Museum: The Gothic Collection

A 17th-century townhouse holding Stevenson's personal belongings and a first edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

The Noir Pub

Ian Rankin's Rebus drinks at this tiny pub, long a spot where police and criminals have rubbed shoulders.

The Philosopher's Tomb & The Resurrectionists

David Hume's towering mausoleum, built deliberately huge to keep the body snatchers from digging him up.

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