The Speckled Band (1931 film) Rylott screams. Holmes, Watson, and Helen enter his room and discover Rylott dead from a snake bite. Holmes forces Ali, the servant, to charm the snake so they can put it in the safe. Violet's last words about a "speckled band" were in fact describing "a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India." The venomous snake had been sent to Violet's room by Dr. Rylott to murder her for her inheritance. Rylott had intended to do the same to Helen. The movie ends with Holmes conducting an experiment in Baker Street. Watson arrives dressed for a wedding, and Holmes therefore
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