# The Hound of the Baskervilles - Paperback

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by **Arthur Conan Doyle** (Author), **Darryl Jones** (Author)

**'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.

### Author Biography

Darryl Jones

Darryl Jones is Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, including the Oxford World's Classics editions of M. R. James's _Collected Ghost Stories_ (2013) and Arthur Conan Doyle's _Gothic Tales_ (2018). His most recent book is _Horror: A Very Short Introduction_ (OUP, 2021). He is currently working on M. R. James, on Arthur Conan Doyle, and on the Anglo-Irish time traveller, J. W. Dunne.  

**Number of Pages:** 224

**Dimensions:** 1 x 7.4 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** June 09, 2023

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