The real Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is one of the most popular stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, focusing on Holmes’ investigation into a phantom dog that has been terrorizing a family. What is relatively unknown however is the origins of the story which is as popular as the story itself Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes had tried to kill the character off in ‘The Final Problem’ but the public was not pleased with this outcome and protested. Doyle at the pleas of many fans of the stories finally revealed Holmes had survived in ‘The Empty House’. Doyle took a holiday one day in Norfolk and visited an old friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson and the both of them later travelled to Dartmoor. While there, Doyle learnt a series of elements that would result in him creating a new story for his famous Detective, even though he did not originally envision the story as being a Holmes tale. From Robinson, he learnt of a phantom dog as big as a young cow, with fiery red