Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles
By Martin Powell & Jamie Chase
Based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dark Horse Comics
Release date: February 13, 2013
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is probably the most popular of all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. It’s been adapted for radio, film, and television numerous times, including an episode of BBC’s Sherlock, as well as plenty of illustrated versions. Because it’s such a famous tale, you might be wondering – like I was – if Dark Horse Comics’ new graphic novel Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Martin Powell and Jamie Chase was worth reading. Surprisingly, it totally is.

Sir Charles Baskerville has lived in fear of the centuries’ old curse put upon his family by the horrible transgressions of his ancestor, Hugo. A ghostly hellish hound, so terrifying its victims die of fright upon seeing it, has been stalking the Moors around the family’s country estate, and Charles fears he’ll be its next target. Some may have thought Charles’s fears irrational, until he’s found dead out on the Moors with the tracks of a massive hound found near the body. Charles’s friend and physician, Dr. James Mortimer, fearing for the life of the next heir – Sir Henry Baskerville, who’s on his way from America to claim his inheritance – travels to London to seek the help of the great detective Sherlock Holmes.