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Picture is text from EMPT which reads: “As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying. I remember that as I picked them up, I observed the title of one of them, The Origin of Tree Worship, and it struck me that the fellow must be some poor bibliophile, who, either as a trade or as a hobby, was a collector of obscure volumes.”

Just casually looked up Victorian tree worship (as you do) and came across this…

“…A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship, published anonymously in 1890. The fourth entry in a ten-volume “Phallic Series” printed privately in limited number…”

We all know the glorious adaptation of FINA/EMPT that the Soviet Holmes pulled off in the early '80s, and then the equally grande one that Granada made a few years later.

Now, my question is: had there been any other before that? Or after?? Cause I very recently realised that by all accounts, Soviet Holmes was the first one ever (?? 😶 !!!) and then the only one after Granada seems to be the NRH, if deduce the Wikipedia page right.

Does anyone know if any other exists? And I'm talking about a straight off adaptation with the whole Reichenbach glory, NOT any DJ mix remake like BBC or just using elements of the stories like Howard Holmes did.

At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I at his request had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street. (The Adventure of the Norwood Builder)

in response to this post; abysival & congelatioafflinic, perhaps?

- @idwl

abysival (link) terminology:

abysivous - an abysival gender quality (noun form: abysivity; can be shorted to abys)

abyrror - an abysival individual, regardless of age

cadyr - a younger abysival individual

unknyssel - an older abysival individual (pronounced un-NISS-ul or un-NISS-ell)

from the words abyss, terror, cadere (fall in latin), and unknown

and congelatioafflinic (link) terminology!

congelaffline - a congelatioafflinic gender quality (noun form: congelafflinity; can be shortened to congel)

fruine - a congelatioafflinic individual, regardless of age (pronounced "froo-EEN")

empt - a younger congelatioafflinic individual

colment - an older congelatioafflinic individual

from the words frost, pruina (frost in latin), empty/temperature, cold, and torment

Untitled (cover of Collier's 9/26/1903 publication). The Adventure of the Empty House. Frederic Dorr Steele, 1903