"Really, Watson," said Holmes, "you excel yourself. ... It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it." Chapter 1, pg 11

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. And even as they looked the thing tore the throat out of Hugo Baskerville ... and turned its blazing eyes and dripping jaws upon them ... Chapter 2, pg 24

"I have heretofore confined my investigations to this world," said Holmes. "In a modest way I have combated evil, but to take on the Father of Evil himself would be too ambitious a task. Yet you must admit the footprint was material." Chapter 3, pg 37

As you value your life or your reason...