'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes
and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan
Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the ancestral Curse
of the Baskervilles, which summons a demonic hound to stalk the moor and
exact vengeance for a past misdeed, or is there a more modern, more
prosaic explanation for the sudden death? In The Hound of the
Baskervilles, the modern, rational world, and the ancient, supernatural
world collide in the novel which brought Sherlock Holmes back from the
dead.
This new edition of Conan Doyle's classic mystery is part of a series of
new editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories published in Oxford World's
Classics. Darryl Jones's Introduction explores the competing worlds of
the supernatural and the scientific in the novel and in Arthur Conan
Doyle's life, the novel's colonial background and origins, and the role
of landscape, folklore, and folk horror in the novel.