The Adventure of the Speckled Band the snake wrong, a theory that the swamp adder was an artificial hybrid between the Mexican Gila monster ("Heloderma suspectum") and "Naja naja". His speculation suggests that Doyle might have hidden a double-meaning in Holmes' words. What Holmes said, reported by Watson, was "It is a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India"; but Klauber suggested what Holmes really said was "It is a "samp-aderm", the deadliest skink in India." "Samp-aderm" can be translated "snake-Gila-monster": "Samp" is Hindi for snake, and the suffix "aderm" is derived from "heloderm", the common or vernacular name of the Gila monster generally used by
The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World (short story) only makes sense as a whole work. The story was first published in the June 1968 edition of "Galaxy Science Fiction" as "The Beast that Shouted Love", and was collected with other Ellison short stories as the first story in "The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" in 1969. Subsequent publications have been in collections such as "Dark Stars", edited by Robert Silverberg, in 1969, "The Hugo Winners: Volumes One and Two", edited by Isaac Asimov, in 1971, and as part of Ellison's own retrospective collection, "Edgeworks 4", in 1997. The story includes many seemingly unrelated