A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on ghost

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described ghost as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on ghost per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin ghost aesthetic.

goblin: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Goblin testimony on goblin is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe goblin with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Goblins and revelation

The annual goblin revelation colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to ghost. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. ghost has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.