The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most famous and enduringly popular Sherlock Holmes story of all. It is a landmark detective novel and a landmark in popular culture. It counterpoints the modern rational, scientific, medical, urban world of Holmes with the older local world of landscape, folklore, supernaturalism, and sense of place.

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.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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