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sherlock60It's our first novel, Hound of the Baskervilles! As always, here are a few thoughts and questions to get you started. Please add your own and discuss away!
- After a long stint of short stories, how did you find diving into a novel? Did you like it more or less than the shorter cases? I loved getting in-depth with the case and characters first-hand, but it's hard not to love The Hound of the Baskervilles. It has it all: action, love, danger, suspense.
- HOUN skirts the line of the horror genre with a spectral demon dog roaming and killing, a notoriously brutal murderer on the loose, and a foggy mire swallowing horses live and screaming. Did you like that dark, scary tone? What did you think of the possibility of the supernatural here? Could a true Sherlock Holmes story ever actually have the paranormal, with Holmes being such a devoted realist? What would happen if he did have to confront the unnatural?
- Watson is terrific in HOUN. He gets volunteered on a moment's notice to take a trip for weeks on end to escort a man under likely mortal danger. And he's excited to do it. It's wonderful to have so much time with him alone for a change and discover more about him and his kind, sturdy character.
- HOUN has an enormous number of film/tv/radio adaptations, and it's interesting to see how they vary from the text. There's a lot of excitement here so it lends itself well to media adaptation. What's your favorite version? I'm partial to Granada's overall, but I actually have a soft spot for Ian Hart's Watson in that BBC tv movie version. He's valiant and tender and he stands up for himself just as well as he stands up for others. If only he had a more worthy Holmes in Richard Roxburgh.
- Any predictions for how they'll handle HOUN on BBC's Sherlock in the next series, if you're watching that?
- After a long stint of short stories, how did you find diving into a novel? Did you like it more or less than the shorter cases? I loved getting in-depth with the case and characters first-hand, but it's hard not to love The Hound of the Baskervilles. It has it all: action, love, danger, suspense.
- HOUN skirts the line of the horror genre with a spectral demon dog roaming and killing, a notoriously brutal murderer on the loose, and a foggy mire swallowing horses live and screaming. Did you like that dark, scary tone? What did you think of the possibility of the supernatural here? Could a true Sherlock Holmes story ever actually have the paranormal, with Holmes being such a devoted realist? What would happen if he did have to confront the unnatural?
- Watson is terrific in HOUN. He gets volunteered on a moment's notice to take a trip for weeks on end to escort a man under likely mortal danger. And he's excited to do it. It's wonderful to have so much time with him alone for a change and discover more about him and his kind, sturdy character.
- HOUN has an enormous number of film/tv/radio adaptations, and it's interesting to see how they vary from the text. There's a lot of excitement here so it lends itself well to media adaptation. What's your favorite version? I'm partial to Granada's overall, but I actually have a soft spot for Ian Hart's Watson in that BBC tv movie version. He's valiant and tender and he stands up for himself just as well as he stands up for others. If only he had a more worthy Holmes in Richard Roxburgh.
- Any predictions for how they'll handle HOUN on BBC's Sherlock in the next series, if you're watching that?
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