The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly
given a terrifying modern application. The grey towers of Baskerville Hall
and the wild open country of Dartmoor hold many secrets for Holmes and
Watson to unravel. The detective is contemptuous of supernatural
manifestations, but the reader will remain perpetually haunted by the hound
from the moor. The editor of this volume, W.W. Robson, was Emeritus David
Masson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and
author of Modern English Literature. The general editor of the Oxford
Sherlock Holmes, Owen Dudley Edwards, is Reader in History at the
University of Edinburgh and author or The Quest for Sherlock Holmes: A
Biographical Study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.