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Quotation from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

“forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.”

Arthur Conan Doyle (spoken by Hugo Baskerville (the manuscript))

The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 2 (Project Gutenberg #2852)

Portrait of Arthur Conan Doyle

The close of the 1742 family manuscript that Mortimer reads aloud, warning the Baskerville sons against the moor at night.

Citation: "forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted." — Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Chapter 2 (Project Gutenberg #2852). (id the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-q2)

Portrait: Cover (Hound of Baskervilles, 1902), Alfred Garth Jones, Public domain.

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