Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-188432-20130505035914/@comment-301980-20130505040605

If I recall correctly, the term "crimson horror" was given to the dead bodies by the penny dreadfuls, who would not have been aware of the existence of the creature, and the venom itself was only discovered in separate investigations by the Doctor and Vastra, neither of whom would have made it public. Doug86 ☎  04:06, May 5, 2013 (UTC)