What does the Hound represent in Hound of the Baskervilles? Here’s What to Expect

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Is the Hound real or supernatural?

It’s impossible to discuss The Hound of the Baskervilles without engaging, in some way, with a debate between the natural world and a possibly unseen, supernatural one. The titular hound, after all, is believed to have come from Hell in pursuit of a Baskerville who sold his soul to the Devil.

What breed of dog was the Hound of the Baskervilles?

The Hound was played by a Great Dane named ‘Blitzen’, although due to it sounding too Germanic just before the outbreak of the war, Fox Studios changed his name to ‘Chief’ for all the promotional material! My next job was to find a Great Dane to act as a model for a photo shoot.

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    The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – So You Haven’t Read

    The third of the four crime novels featuring the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902. It is set largely in Dartmoor in Devon, and tells the story of murder and attempted murder committed by a fearsome, supernatural, huge and glowing hound.

    Here is an analysis of 7 key characters of the book – Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sir Henry Baskerville, Dr James Mortimer, Mr. and Mrs. Barrymore, Jack Stapleton and Laura Lyons – touching on their roles in the novel, and what they each represent.