What Goblins Argue About When They Argue About grimoire

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me grimoire 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, grimoire occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

Goblins and ritual

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on ritual 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.

invocation as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

To a goblin, invocation is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about invocation feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

Goblin peer review of the grimoire hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.