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 Fifth Quarter (short story) The Fifth Quarter (short story) "The Fifth Quarter" is a short story by American author Stephen King, originally published in the April 1972 issue of "Cavalier" (under the pen name John Swithen) and later collected in King's 1993 collection "Nightmares & Dreamscapes". It was filmed as an episode of the TNT miniseries "Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King". In the notes for this story, King remarks "Bachman again or maybe George Stark", a reference to his pseudonym Richard Bachman whose "relationship" with him was the basis of the character George Stark for the novel "The Dark Half".