The Hound of the Baskervilles

Fiction

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

“Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”,,The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blam….Read More

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