The Lady, or the Tiger? an old hag. Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp released a recording of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" and "The Discourager of Hesitancy" with Willcox reading the stories to electric guitar accompaniment by Fripp. "The Lady, or the Tiger?" is one of three short stories that were adapted into the musical comedy "The Apple Tree". The story was the inspiration for Raymond Smullyan's puzzle book by the same title, "The Lady, or the Tiger?". The first set of logic puzzles in the book had a similar scenario to the short story in which a king gives each prisoner a choice between
Dire animal updated versions of the monsters published in "Masters of the Wild". The monsters are listed here: dire elephant, dire elk, dire horse, dire hawk, dire snake, and dire toad. The third edition "Fiend Folio" introduced one new dire animal, the dire rhinoceros"'. "Races of Stone" introduced the dire eagle. "Frostburn" introduces numerous dire animals more suited to cold environments. Many of them are not named 'dire [animal name]' but are still counted as dire animals. They are listed here: dire polar bear, megaloceros, glyptodon, sabretoothed tiger, wooly mammoth, and zeuglodon. "Libris Mortis" does not technically introduce any dire animals, however,