The Hound of the Baskervilles
1902
The most atmospheric Holmes novel ever written. Set on the fog-shrouded moors of Devon, this Gothic masterpiece opens with a death that might be murder, might be something far older and more terrible. Sir Charles Baskerville has been found dead on the grounds of his estate, his face twisted in horror, and the locals whisper of a spectral hound that has haunted the Baskerville bloodline for centuries. When the heir, Sir Henry, arrives to claim his inheritance, the threats begin anew: a murdered dog, a cryptic message, a figure glimpsed on the moor in the moonlight. Holmes sends Watson ahead to guard Henry while he works the shadows, because even the great detective cannot be everywhere at once. The question that hangs over everything: is the hound real, or is a human monster using an ancient legend as cover? Doyle weaves Victorian detective fiction with Gothic horror to create something that still manages to unsettle a century later. It endures because it understands that the scariest thing isn't what we see, it's what we imagine in the dark.
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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.””
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.””
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“presume nothing””
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.””
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.””
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“The devil’s agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?””
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.””
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.””
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt.””
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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