Open-Source Goblin ghost: A Postmortem

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that ghost is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

Goblin children, taught about ghost in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Companion Goblin Material to content

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on content this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Adjacency of alchemy

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to alchemy. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted ghost for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.