“It comes at night,” Sir Henry had whispered, “when the mist is high enough to hide its shoulders. You hear the claws first, clicking on the stone path. Then the breathing—wet, like a man drowning. And then the eyes.”
(The Hound of the Baskervilles) stands as the most iconic of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s four novels featuring the master detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialized in The Strand Magazine between 1901 and 1902, the story marked Holmes's triumphant return after his apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls years earlier, though the narrative itself is set as a prequel to those events. Plot Overview: The Curse and the Moor Il Mastino Dei Baskerville
Tuttavia, le pressioni dei lettori e le necessità economiche spinsero Doyle a resuscitare il personaggio, non attraverso un improbabile ritorno in vita immediato, ma con un "romanzo flashback". Il Mastino dei Baskerville è ambientato cronologicamente prima della morte di Holmes, ma fu scritto e pubblicato quando il mondo piangeva ancora il detective. “It comes at night,” Sir Henry had whispered,
Mortimer did not believe in hellhounds. But he believed in the terror he saw in young Sir Henry’s eyes, the way the heir’s hand shook as he held the yellowed family manuscript. And then the eyes