The Adventure of the Speckled Band a pipe. Even Conan Doyle's bow was upstaged when Lyn Harding appeared at curtain call with the snake draped around his neck. "The Speckled Band" ran for 169 performances at the Adelphi Theatre before transferring to the Globe on 28 August. The play enjoyed a successful tour in England, with two touring-companies on the road by the end of August, while the New York presentation was marred by clumsy production. Conan Doyle's financial difficulties were at an end, yet there were still problems to be resolved with the production. While the human cast was excellent, the live snake proved to
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