The Hound of the Baskervilles

From The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
The most famous Holmes novel, blending Gothic horror with rational detection on the fog-bound Devonshire moor.
Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 2

The legend of the Baskerville curse read from the old manuscript: the death of Hugo Baskerville and the spectral hound.

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Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 14 ('The Hound of the Baskervilles')

The climactic appearance of the phosphorescent hound bursting through the fog: 'Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived.'

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Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 9

Watson's famous cry on the moor at night: 'A long, low moan, indescribably sad, swept over the moor.'

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