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 Dark Between the Stars (short story collection) The Dark Between the Stars (short story collection) The Dark Between the Stars is a 1981 collection of previously-published science fiction short stories by American writer Poul Anderson. Thomas M. Wagner of SFReviews.net wrote that the publisher's marketing of the book as a collection of science fiction horror stories is "totally misleading" and noted "no unifying theme present in these stories remotely related to the horrors of the universe, whatever those might be." Wagner went on to say that the anthology includes some "must-reads" and that "even a middling Poul Anderson story is quite a bit better than what you're