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The Hound
Also known as a hound, an enormous coal-black hound, the Hound of the Baskervilles, the gigantic hound, Hound of the Baskervilles.
The monstrous black beast at the heart of the family legend, said in the old manuscript to have torn out the throat of the wicked Hugo on the moor and to have haunted and doomed the Baskerville line ever since. It is the spectral horror the curse warns against, larger than any natural hound. And by the body of Sir Charles, Dr. Mortimer privately saw the print of just such a giant hound.
Chapter III. The Problem
Several moor witnesses swear they have lately seen a huge, luminous, spectral creature answering to the hell-hound of the legend, and a reign of terror grips the district.
Chapter VII. The Stapletons of Merripit House
A long, eerie cry rolls across the moor, which the peasants name the Hound of the Baskervilles calling for its prey.
Chapter IX. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
The howl sweeps the night moor again as Sir Henry and Watson hunt the convict, freezing the baronet's blood.
Chapter X. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
Watson, having heard it twice now, reasons stubbornly that any such beast must be flesh and blood, however it hides and feeds by day.
Chapter XII. Death on the Moor
Its cry rises out of the dark as a man is run down and killed on the moor, though the beast itself is never seen.
Chapter XIII. Fixing the Nets
Sir Henry, who knows a dog's voice when he hears one, begs Holmes to muzzle and chain the thing, and Holmes vows that he will.
Chapter XIV. The Hound of the Baskervilles
A gigantic hound with flaming jaws and blazing eyes bursts from the fog upon Sir Henry, is shot dead by Holmes, and proves a real, savage beast smeared with glowing paint.
Chapter XV. A Retrospection
Explained in full: a savage dog bought in London from a Fulham Road dealer, kennelled in the heart of the Grimpen Mire, and daubed with phosphorus to seem a creature of hell.
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