title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
description: Only a brave man would cross the wild moorlands after dark - for the ancient legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles has haunted the Baskerville family for generations. Then Sir Charles's mysterious death brings Sherlock Holmes to the scene. Sir Charles had been running for his life, but what inspired such terror? A spectral hound from Hell? Or something far more earthly and cunning ...THE AUTHOR Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born in 1859 in Edinburgh. He combined a medical career with a literary one, and his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes first appeared in 1888, in a story called A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual. Regularly published in the Strand magazine, he finally killed off Holmes in 1893. As a result, 20,000 people cancelled their subscription to the Strand magazine. Arthur Conan Doyle died in 1930.
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  # The White Company
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Arthur Conan Doyle
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I. HOW THE BLACK SHEEP CAME FORTH FROM THE
  
  
  FOLD.
  
  
  CHAPTER II. HOW ALLEYNE EDRICSON CAME OUT INTO THE
  
  
  WORLD.
  
  
  CHAPTER III. HOW HORDLE JOHN COZENED THE FULLER OF
  
  
  LYMINGTON.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. HOW THE BAILIFF OF SOUTHAMPTON SLEW
  
  
  THE TWO MASTERLESS MEN.
  
  
  CHAPTER V. HOW A STRANGE COMPANY GATHERED AT THE
  
  
  "PIED MERLIN."
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. HOW SAMKIN AYLWARD WAGERED HIS
  
  
  FEATHER-BED.
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. HOW THE THREE COMRADES JOURNEYED
  
  
  THROUGH THE WOODLANDS.
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE THREE FRIENDS.
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. HOW STRANGE THINGS BEFELL IN MINSTEAD
  
  
  WOOD.
  
  
  CHAPTER X. HOW HORDLE JOHN FOUND A MAN WHOM HE
  
  
  MIGHT FOLLOW.
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. HOW A YOUNG SHEPHERD HAD A PERILOUS
  
  
  FLOCK.
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. HOW ALLEYNE LEARNED MORE THAN HE
  
  
  COULD TEACH.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. HOW THE WHITE COMPANY SET FORTH TO
  
  
  THE WARS.
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. HOW 