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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sherlock Holmes novel, first serialised in 1901 and 1902, in which a family legend of a spectral hound on Dartmoor appears to come true. It draws on West Country black dog folklore and gave the phantom hound its most famous literary form.

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