The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921 film) The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1921 British mystery film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Eille Norwood, Catina Campbell and Rex McDougall. It is based on the Sherlock Holmes novel "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was made by Stoll Pictures, Britain's largest film company at the time. Following the fifteen part "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" this was the first full length film starring Eille Norwood as Holmes and Hubert Willis as Dr. Watson. This was the second film version of "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
The War Hound and the World's Pain The War Hound and the World's Pain The War Hound and the World's Pain is a 1981 fantasy novel by English writer Michael Moorcock, the first of the "von Bek" series of novels. The book is set in Europe ravaged by the Thirty Years' War. Its hero Ulrich von Bek is a mercenary and freethinker, who finds himself a damned soul in a castle owned by Lucifer. Much to his surprise, von Bek is charged by Lucifer with doing God's work, by finding the Holy Grail, the "cure for the world's pain," that will also cure Lucifer's pain by reconciling