Additional Study Guide for Hound of the Baskervilles

Characteristics of the Mystery-Horror Genre:

Please note the significance of each of the following characters, items, settings, or events.

1. The missing boot

2. Phosphorous
3. Beryl’s (“Miss” Stapleton’s) warning to Watson
4. Mr. and Mrs. Vandeleur - think of the Stapleton mess
5. The body in the ruddy tweed suit on the moor – think mistaken identity
6. The letter to Sir Henry
7. The “stranger” on the moor
8. Mrs. Barrymore’s sorrow
9. Stapleton’s reaction to Henry’s proposal/interest
10. The fog in general