Writer(s): Cavan Scott & George Mann
Narrator/Holmes & Watson: Colin Salmon/Stephen Fry
Summary: An ancient curse has awoken on Dartmoor, the members of the Baskerville family hunted by a spectral hound of Hell. With Sherlock Holmes busy in London, Doctor John Watson is sent to protect the new lord of the manor as fear and superstition run wild in the ancient countryside. Can Watson overcome his own terror to discover the truth behind the legend before the hound strikes again ? The classic novel reinterpreted as a dark folk horror in six parts, free to Audible members.
Review: As with Scott and Mann’s last Sherlockian Audible Original (reviewed here), I so wanted to enjoy this. However, yet again it went on too long (over five hours) meaning that although they were able to include sequences usually deleted from dramatisations, they also needed to add a lot of extra stuff as well. Episode 4 contained almost no canonical content at all, and Episode 1 moved slowly to allow the final line to be ‘They were the footprints of a gigantic hound’. They also introduced another recurring character played by Meera Syal, who just popped up every so often to make spooky pronouncements and turn the local villagers against the new Baronet. Colin Salmon made excellent work of Holmes’ speechifying, but I quickly got fed up of the way Stephen Fry’s Watson felt that he had to respond to each and every jibe made to him by Holmes (less is most definitely more). Stick to Stephen Fry’s reading of HOUND as part of ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Audio Collection’.
Rating: 
(3/5)
Link to audio: https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Hound-of-the-Baskervilles-Podcast/B09LVT5BBV
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