Hound Of Baskerville

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This short story I have written is a continuation of the book The Hound of the Baskervilles. It takes place in the moor at Mr. Henry Baskerville’s home, and the timeline is a few weeks after the mystery of the death of sir Charles Baskerville was solved by the genius plan of Mr. Holmes. Mr. Henry Baskerville starts having nightmares and they are not letting him sleep at night, whenever he goes to sleep this nightmare wakes him up. A large vicious crying hound standing over him. At first, he thought nothing of them until they carried on for three nights in a row. When this bad dream wakes him up on the third night, he gets out of his room and calls for his servant Fred. Whom he has hired, on the recommendation of Dr. Mortimer, shortly after

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