What is the curse of the Hound of the Baskervilles?

The full manuscript is contained in chapter two of the novel, and it is linked below if you care to read the entire thing In essence, Sir Hugo Baskerville, while carousing with friends (circa 1650), kidnaps a maiden from her home, takes her to the Baskerville estate, and locks her in an upper chamber. Sir Hugo is enraged that she escapes, and he sends his hunting hounds after her then flies on his own horse after her. When his friends later find the pair, they find the maiden and Sir Hugo both dead with a "black beast shaped like a hound" standing over him "plucking at his throat."

The curse of the hound is said to have "plagued the family so sorely ever since.

The Curse Of the Hound Of The Baskervilles is described in that definition.As the Book says ” It was not the sight of her body, nor yet was that of the body of Hugo Baskervilles lying near her, which raised the hair upon the heads of three daedevil roysters, but it was that, standing over Hugo, and plucking at his throat, there stood a foul thing, a great black beast, shaped like a hound yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon”. This is basic proof that “The Hound Of The Baskevilles” is a Gothic Fiction Novel.

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