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 Moving Finger (short story) The Moving Finger (short story) "The Moving Finger" is a short story by Stephen King. It was first published in December 1990 in "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", and three years later in 1993 was included in King's collection "Nightmares & Dreamscapes". A very ordinary man named Howard Mitla, who has a strange aptitude for "Jeopardy!", is confronted by the bizarre sight of a human finger poking its way out of the drain in his apartment's bathroom sink. He tries to deny the reality of what is happening, but the solitary digit eventually proves to be infinitely long