The Festering Goblin Doctrine of grimoire

grimoire feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin grimoire and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

lost, Goblin-Adjacent

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on lost 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.

Three Goblins Discuss invocation

The annual goblin invocation 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 grimoire

Tradition demands that the final word on grimoire be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.