The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - So You Haven't Read
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So you haven't read The Hound of the Baskervilles? Then have a seat as we talk about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Spookiest Sherlock Holmes story. Featuring, Watson deducing the case? It seems Sherlock has other things he has to attend to so Watson has been dispatched to find out if this Demon Hound is real and why its master is murdering the Baskervilles.
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The Sherlock Holmes author becoming wealth by accident because he wanted to stop writing Sherlock Holmes stories is the definition of “task failed successful.”
"The only way to win is not to play" at it's finest
Fine,mill write the story, but kill off the main character, so there!
"Guess I pulled a Homer!"
Fleetwood Mac "Rumors" album is another example.
Man truly suffered from success
Three small mistakes in that intro; The landlord died from a heart-attack (brought on by a Dog), It is his nephew not son, and Watsons first name is John.
And I am pretty sure, Watson was no longer Holmes roommate by that point. He had gotten married and moved out to establish a private practice.
@@Simon39759 true, but he moved back and forth quite a bit, as the narrative went on. So i hardly blame them for missing that detail.
Just a quick note: Sir Henry isn't Sir Charles' son, he is his nephew
And Sir Charles didn't get mauled by the hound, just died of weak heart when he saw the hound and was frightened.
@@longhorn7969 That was the other thing, I knew there was something I had missed
Honestly this video has a lot of errors. Not a very accurate take this time guys :(
They also left the escaped convict
@@ClaireMOToole That might have been to preserve a bit of the mystery
One of the best parts of the story, that gets missed in modern collections, is that the story was written as a serial. Doyle ended an episode just as Dr. Mortimer ended the telling of the legend, Holmes scoffed at a supernatural explanation. Mortimer tells Holmes of the foot print. Asks Holmes "a man's or a woman's?" Says Mortimer "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound." Full stop. Wait til next time. Made a fine cliffhanger.
That, in a nutshell, is also the magic of super-hero comics. End of the issue: a mysterious assassin with a cybernetic arm shoots the Red Skull through the back of the head and the once filled cosmic cube falls to the floor empty. What happens next? Wait a full month to find out!
Yep, I damn need to read that book again
Anyone who wants to watch a really good, faithful adaptation of Sherlock Holmes stories, I simply must recommend the Granada series staring Jeremy Brett. Not only is Mr. Brett a fantastic actor, but the series goes above and beyond to portray the setting in an authentic and accurate matter. It is, in my opinion, the definitive portrayal of the detective.
No doubt Brett's Sherlock is definitely the best. But for variety do see others like basil rathbone, Ronald Howard n others. Just for comparison
Brett is my headcanon Holmes. No one else compares
@@dchegu good recommendations. I add the Peter Cushing one, too.
@dimapez There are dvd sets available, not to mention all the episodes are also available on youtube
@dimapez It's probably taboo to speak of such things but fortunately piracy exists. Say whatever you want about it but thanks to it, almost nothing is ever "out of print."
5:20 Fun Fact: while later Holmes stories and basically every Holmes adaptation since has made Moriarty out to be this huge arch-rival to Holmes, The Final Problem is actually his first appearance in the Holmes canon.
When Holmes first mentions Moriarty, Watson has never heard of the man.
I honestly don’t find Moriarty that interesting. Holmes is a character who really shouldn’t have a nemesis imo. Makes it a duel of machinations when Holmes works best as a character solving crimes as puzzles
true, though in The final Problem, Holmes does basically imply that Moriarty has been pulling strings behind the scenes of many of the previous cases. which is one of the reasons that he's often set up as an arch-rival. because in that story he is presented as such, not only being someone nearly on par with Holmes mentally but also having been (retroactively) inserted as the true mastermind behind a number of the more daring criminal cases which Holmes had stopped in previous stories, as well as several cases which are alluded to but we never got stories about.
Also, there is the "fourth beetle" of the novels: the Valley of Fear, in which Moriarity is mentioned and spoken of in detail early on in the novel. Watson was there and certainly heard of Moriarty at the time, so his never having heard of him in the Final Problem is a continuity error, or, it was Watson the master's story-teller bending the truth a little for the aid of his readers, who had never heard of the Professor, in order to present an opportunity in the Final Problem to introduce him.
The other three novels, A study in Scarlet, Hound, and The Sign of the Four, are all much better known and more often read than the Valley of Fear is.
This is finally the first "so You haven't read" That i have actually read. Mostly thanks to the fact that it was a major point in The great Ace attorney, and Seeing the book in my local library made me binge read it over a week.
Oooo a Sherlock Holmes story at last!! 😍
We couldn't leave this gem out!
Fun fact, one of those fanfictions was actually created by Maurice Leblanc because he wanted to have Arsène Lupin face off against Sherlock Holmes in a battle of wits and deception
Yes, except he was named Herlock Sholmes 😂
Yep. Leblanc was hit with a copyright strike, so he had to change the name.
(Regarding the use of the "totally different and distinct" name of "Herlock Sholmes".) ...Which later is used again for the English language version of Dai Gyakuten Saiban (aka The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles) to...(once again) dodge a copyright strike. o7
A personal favorite of mine, along with "The Adventure Of The Speckled Band."
"For you are Holmes, the meddler! Holmes, the busybody! Holmes, the Scotland Yard jack-in-office!"
Said insulter then proceeds to bend a poker. Holmes proceeds to bend it back with very little effort.
A bit juvenile, but that story also has my favorite example of "ejaculation" being used in a way that’s funny to modern eyes.
_"But what in the name of the devil!"_
_The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that the door had suddenly been dashed open, and a huge man framed himself in the aperture_
@@olefredrikskjegstad5972 "Ejaculation" as a synonym for "exclamation." I like it.
I remember reading "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" at high school age and not being able to actually finish the story because there was something just terrifying about it. Sure, I read it in a moment of my life in which I was going through an extremely rough time and I was quite prone to get scared at anything that implied even the slightest chance of existential dread, but that was the first and only book so far that made me go "nope, that's about enough and I'd appreciate not dying of fright right now"
@@Maatkara1000
Indiana Jones: "Snakes... why did it have to be snakes?"
I have a lot of issues with the Cumberbatch Sherlock show but one thing I really liked is how they changed the ending of Hound of the Baskervilles to maintain the suspense.
So did Hbomberguy lol
For a man is not dead while his name is still spoken.
Also if a character is popular enough, merely dying in their story is no barrier to their return.
Darth Maul: How are you still alive?
Boba Fett: I was saved at the last moment, by a bunch of fans!
Sherlock: Join the club, I've got jackets.
If Sherlock Holmes is fiction's most portrayed human character, it would be logical to deduce that the second most would be his right-hand man, Dr. John H. Watson.
Also if you're more of an Audio Learner there is a public-domain Audiobook version of the story here on CZcams!
On a point that EC quickly made at 2:10: I've read all the original texts in the canon, and honestly NEVER got the impression that Holmes was socially awkward or downright weird like he is often thought of today. From my recollection, he just seems like a person with strange view on the world (like forgetting everything that is irrelevant to his work), but he acts just like a Victorian gentleman in all social situations. The only thing that from the original text that struck me as "weird" is his frequent drug usage when not on cases, but again, it isn't written like that actually impairs his ability to interact with people that much (compare that with Sherlock's portrayal in BBC's Sherlock).
If anyone knows the source of this perception of Holmes as a socially awkward, strange detective from the original Doyle texts, please let me know! I may have missed something, but unless I see evidence that I'm wrong, I'm inclined to believe this just arises from biases that surround how society perceives really smart people.
It’s just one of the many changes that adaptations have made to the character. Just like he didn’t treat Watson particularly badly as is usually portrayed and Irene Adler wasn’t a love interest.
@@craigs733 Got it - yeah I had a feeling that it was a product of later adaptations as opposed to the original intent of the character. Thanks for confirming! I'm a proponent of staying as faithful to the original Doyle source material as possible myself, but I also recognize the fun and longevity of the character is really tied to people reimagining the content.
he comes across as not fitting into society at times, but this is mostly due to his (for the time very peculiar) interests and hobbies and way of thinking, rather than the kind of bizarre behavior he often gets saddled with in newer media, which tends towards the neurodivergent at best and the sociopathic at worst. in the stories he is actually quite well spoken and has impeccable manners when not in disguise. but i suspect that it is just hard to convince people today that his his interest in the macabre details of crime and death, his forensic experiments, and his fixation of complete and accurate details when taking down accounts and gathering evidence is enough to make people uneasy around him. after all, in part because of the sherlock holmes stories introducing so many people to the concepts, many of those things are no long as odd and unique as they would have been Doyle's time. so they reach for other tropes to pull off the same feeling of unease that the audience will understand.
@@craigs733 Yeah, as far as the original stories go, Holmes seemed to be asexual (not that they had that term back then).
@@stevejakab274 I can’t say if you’re right or wrong, but just because Holmes never dated anyone or got married doesn’t mean he’s asexual lol
Victorian-era writers really knew how to make a scary story 😉
They themselves were terrified. So managed to project that fear well
Omg you included Wishbone as Sherlock! Truth be told, Wishbone was how I first learned about various stories.
Honestly, I kinda want the picture of all the Sherlocks on a tshirt!
I noticed Wishbone there as well!
Who is wishbone?
@@charliefarmer4365An adorable dog from a PBS kid's show who imagines himself as a character in various works of literature.
@@joannamyers1268 oh, thanks. There’s a manga where Holmes is reincarnated as a dog and he and a teenager solve crimes.
@@charliefarmer4365 That sounds fun! I'll have to check that out!
I love how you put La Forge and Data in the thumbnail.
I knew I wasn't the only one who'd notice it! Ben Cumberbatch too! Ha!
Not to mention Wishbone!
Fun fact: Arty never wrote, "elementary my dear Watson". That one comes from P. G. Wodehouse, in Psmith Journalist, 1915.
liked for Wishbone reference. I miss that pooch.
It's John Watson!
vampires: dont appear on camera
Dracula: I think I am going to be a movie star
“Sudden case of plot device” is one of my favorite sentences ever
Been playing Great Ace Attorney on Switch
On the third case and have enjoyed Herlock Sholmes’ characterisation so far
Arthur Conan Doyle's first appointment as a doctor was for several months in my home city of Plymouth on the outskirts of Dartmoor.
He weaved several elements of local myths and locations into the Baskerville story - Grimpen Mire is inspired by Foxtor Mire, a notorious area of marshland on the moor that can be extremely dangerous to cross (in Scouts we were always told to never hike across it but to go around as the risk of injury was too great).
The prison is obviously Dartmoor Prison which still operates as HMP Dartmoor with about 640 inmates.
The ghost of squire Robert Cabell is said to be pursued across the moor by a pack of hellhounds as well as stories of headless Yeth Hound and Wisht Hound that hunt the moors at night.
There are also stories of a cruel houndmaster who was eaten alive by his starving hounds in the local area too.
The Holmes fans writing stories are one example of early fan fiction, but there's another: Jules Verne, who wrote a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe's sole novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym".
The deal is that you can never solve a Homes story, because he hides the clues until the reveal. This story is how reading every one of them seems. You are like Watson everytime.
They are fun reads... as long as you are there for the ride, not a riddle.
I say while it's really hard to figure out most of his stories, it's not impossible.
Some of them are actually solvable (I even solved the one the video's about) but yeah definitely read it for the ride if you wanna enjoy it.
Finally a Sherlock one I've been waiting for it for a while.
"some of the first fan fiction" - yknow, aside from Dante's Divine Comedy.
This one of my favourite books of Sherlock Holmes to read. Thank you!!
I know most of this story from great ace attorney chronicles! I loved how it was taken on there
No I have not binged the Cumberbatch series. I very often do binge the Jeremy Brett series
Etra Credits serving me a Sherlock Holmes video while iam reading this exact book. It will be the first time i will wait to see one of your videos. Cheers guys ! And thanks a lot
Finally, one I’ve already read
well, except that nobody is mauled to death. Sir Charles dies of heart failure by seeing the dog
To be fair, the dogs appearance in the novel is absolutely visually terrifying...
You'd try running for your life from 'that' too...
I have not watched much of Sherlock. But I did grow up watching Wishbone
Oh nice the first Holmes story I ever read!
Please make So You Haven't Read Il Nome della Rosa di Umberto Eco.
It is Eco's greatest homage to Sherlock Holmes and the medieval "recasting" of the story of the Hound.
My local science museum had a temporary sherlock holmes exihibit.
One of the few Holmes books I've actually read 😅 I've even read a Graphic Novel version, that was great!
It was "The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles" that got me to read "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". Did not yet get around to "The Hound of the Baskervilles" yet though.
Do an episode about "Kalevala". It is... strange (?)
There can be only one portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and it is Sir Basil Rathbone!
I didn't know about the "most portrayed" title... Do they list those portrayals? I wonder if it's limited to Holmes in his original form, or if it includes (for example) House MD.
It usually does include such as house and mouse detective.
However. It also applies generally, as stage shows where often running of the stories since their publication.
I know of this story because it got a brief mention in The Pagemaster where the dog chases Richard, Adventure, and Fantasy into the Horror section, properly starting the journey.
I read this story for a Lit class in middle school. It got me into OG Sherlock Holmes stories for a while. Discovered the Hobbit the same way in the same class
You deduced incorrectly, Jeremy Brett, that is all. (Benedict Cumberbatch and Sherlock are also awesome.)
OBJECTION! I did not watch BBC's Sherlock! But i did play the Great Ace Attorney Chronicles where Herlock Sholmes also had to investigate the Baskerville Hound
Fun fact: Doyle’s nephew created a sort of reverse-Sherlock Holmes character: A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief.
Library? For people born in THIS century, there are free copies on-line at Project Gutenberg. Also free audio books on Libribox. There are even side-by-side dual language versions if you want to practice learning another language.
The last Sherlock Holmes book I read in elementary school before I just kinda stopped. I should start again.
I heard of this story from wishbone
This is the second time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has appeared on this channel, go watch the extra history episode on the tuberculosis vaccine to see more pilgrim!
❤ awesome as always thanks
ACD(Arthur Conan Doyle): **Bursts through a door** “I’VE DONE IT! I’VE KILLED SHERLOCK HOLMES!”
I just finished watching Enola Holmes, so this was perfect! Love these vids :)
The reason Sherlock Holmes is 'always' wearing that hunting outfit in most people's and the media's imagination (or lack thereof), is because he wore that costume in The Hound Of The Baskervilles.
If you read the other stories though, you will find that most times Holmes is dressed in suit and top hat.
The Feee Aduiobooks (which is found in podcast form on most platforms) have twee bundles of original Sherlock Holmes stories that you can listen to for free. Having listened to them myself I think they might be interesting for y'all!
"... because you watched the Benedict Cumberbatch Series" ... pffft ... Jeremy Brett is the last real Holmes.
To me, Cumberbatch is the only modern-day version of Holmes that works... all the others I have seen fall short. (Plus Martin Freeman's Watson is marvelous.)
I've only seen a couple of the Jeremy Brett stories, and while the period settings are probably the best yet Brett himself just hasn't grabbed me as Holmes. I need to watch more of the Brett versions, but to me (at this point) Basil Rathbone continues to BE Sherlock Holmes, even if many of those movies' scripts wandered far afield from Doyle's original stories.
Best of the Holmes stories in my opinion.
Thank you for mentioning the best Holmes, Nigel Rathbone.
Hands the artists some fake plastic skulls. I'm not sure why we're supposed to give you props, but here you go. Also, great work out there. XP
Thank you for the video.
Is BBC Sherlock *really* great, though?
First 2 seasons are
Some episodes are truly brilliant. Some pretty much suck.
If you really want to watch some good Holmes, check out the Jeremy Brett series
Would have been a lot better if the showrunner were even a third as clever as he thinks he is... or if they knew how to write a mystery story. .. or if they knew how to write a 'genius' without making it seem like a superpower.
Hound of Baskerville is easily one of my favorite Sherlock books. I have a collection, and it is worth reading twice.
Nah, I remember it for Great Ace Attorney. It has Herlock Sholmes.
You must be accurate. Sir Charles was not mauled to death. The dog did not touch him. He died of a heart attack from fear.
This video is just one whole add basically. Nothing on the hound of the baskerville, just a small story of Arthur Conan Doyle. Just advertising your merchandise lol.
Loved today's artist! Great video
Ive actually seen the original copy of the Hound of the Baskervilles. They had a Sherlock Holmes exhibit at the Science Museum of Oklahoma a few months back that included a bunch of items on loan. The book was one of them.
I was honestly disappointed with the *Sherlock* series. The first episode was great but after that they kinda forgot it was supposed to be about mysteries that actually make sense instead of Holmes just magically thinking of the answer last second. Also I didn’t appreciate them making Holmes such a dick. Holmes should have poor people skills (and definitely should be neurodiverse coded) but he shouldn’t be intentionally callous or unkind.
I like how the thumbnail is a reference to the TNG episode "Elementary, dear Data"
Fun fact: everybody, including Doyle himself, gets Sherlock Holmes wrong. Holmes is not a master of deductive reasoning, he's a master of *inductive* reasoning. Essentially, he's very good at taking a bunch of pieces of information and intuiting the correct answer through logic even when there isn't enough direct evidence to actually deductively prove it. This is opposed to deductive reasoning, where a=b and b=c, therefore a=c.
You just can't go around calling yourself a consulting inductive and it is Watson the one getting it wrong not Doyle, come to think of it.
@@TheBearInTheChair I mean, you could go around calling yourself that. Not sure how good it would be for marketing, but you could.
Bro, I was Sir Charles Baskerville in a play for my school, the death was crazy
(I got to scream at the top of my lungs while falling over)
Well that benediction cucumbersquash was cursed.
love Zoe's reaction to the dog.
5:43-6:03 At least he didn’t get his ankles broken by a crazy fan of his while trapped inside their house in the middle of nowhere.
I LOVE this story! And I adore all of the Sherlock Holmes stories! Thank you for doing this video!!!
Like Sherlock with Watson, Shaggy with Scooby or Extra Credits with its artists.
But…. it’s John. Right?
Maybe someone can help, I was under the impression that the deerstalker was popularized by stage actor William Gillette?
It was present in the original illustrations by Sidney Paget (and Dorr Steele, the illustrator for the American side) but I guess it was really popularised in the further stage depictions of the character, like you said
"Super high, and not getting stiff done."
... actually a fairly accurate description of Sherlock
Here's something else that gets lost in modern re-tellings. Watson is often underrated because he's Holmes companion and it's hard for TV/Movies to find something for Watson to do while Holmes solves the case. That is not the way it is in the books; Watson is not only the narrator and our guide into Holmes' world, but Watson is also the single most indispensable person in Holmes' life. If there is a hint of danger in a case, Holmes always takes Watson along, and when the two of them are out in the middle of the night on a stake-out (such as the Adventure of the Speckled Band or the Sign of the Four) Watson is always the one who carries the gun, and always at Holmes' explicit request. Holmes explicitly trusts Watson's courage, his judgement in a crisis, his nerves, and his capacity to follow orders with a minimum of explanation required. in the history of literature, there is no man better than Dr. John Henry Watson if you want a trusted companion to carry a gun with you into a dangerous situation.
PANR has tuned in.
The whole thing about Arthur Conan Doyle demanding ludicrous prices for publishing Sherlock Holmes so he could retire the character and the publishers agreeing to the ridiculous terms reminded me of RPG Limit Break 2018, where Twittchhighspirits said that if people donated enough to the marathon to raise the donation total to $100,000 before the end of the current run and when it got close, Bowie raised it to $105,000 and if it was met all three would do a Platinum Trophy speedrun of Ni No Kuni. Shows how insanely generous people are to see content and how the content creators hate their lives. XD
I always figured the hound story was the author showing how boring and unworkable he found Sherlock Holmes in the long term.
Holmes being OP easily solved the case as an after thought from the outside so if the story centered on him then the story would not exist.
The twists turns and mystery all come from the fact that a more realistic character Watson is the one who works the case.
Love hearing this story
5:40 eeeerr nooo, the concept of canon was established in AD 300 or so with the various counsles
Do remember the original Sherlock was a cocaine addict.
Fun fact sir christopher lee has played both dracula and sherlock holmes
Oddly enough, he has also been Mycroft Holmes
i'll have to stop by that store when i get paid again
I suddenly understand the Baskerville brand of dog muzzles 😬
Man this thing scared the crap out of me when i was a kid
Were the "Illustrated Classics" books available in your day? They really went all-out on the pictures for that one O_O
ah, finally. a story i have read
2:43 they are roommates you say? What an interesting deduction Dr. Watson! 🧐
The Hound of the Baskervilles was the first Sherlock story I read. I read it back when I started high school and I loved it. Part of the reason why I picked it up was because I liked dogs and my love of the mystery genre came from watching Scooby-Doo reruns on Cartoon Network as a kid. I later read the other Sherlock stories later in life but I definitely think the Hound of the Baskervilles is the best. There’s just something about it that’s so good and it’s just fantastic mystery story in general. Also I loved how you included Geordi in the thumbnail. That was the first TNG episode that I really enjoyed.
Oh wow. This might be the first book in this series that I actually have read.
Ay, I just finished reading the play version of this hahaha
We read this in middle school.
Jeremy Brett's version was great. however, I read all of Sherlock Holmes back in the early 80s.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: I have killed Sherlock Holmes, that will be the last time you ever see or hear of him!
Fanfic writers: We're gonna do the first pro gamer move!