Holmes sets himself up as her next victim, discovering that she uses the deadly spider, Lycosa Carnivora, whose venom causes such excruciating pain that the victims kill themselves.
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Unlike most other adaptations of the Holmes stories, which retell only one of the original stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, this film incorporates elements from the novel The Sign of the Four, as well as the short stories "The Final Problem", "The Adventure of the Empty House", "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band".
The Spider Woman Strikes Back is a 1946 film which is not a sequel to The Spider Woman (1944).
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Bach's essays have appeared in the following anthologies: First Person Queer (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2007, edited by Richard Labonté and Lawrence Schimel), Second Person Queer (2009), Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear & Queer Desire (published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2009 and edited by Amber Dawn), and Visible: A Femmethology (Homofactus Press).