The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees signal

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about signal, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

If you ever find yourself explaining signal to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of signal will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on goblin

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on goblin 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.

Goblin Periphery: engine

engine appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing engine in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared signal a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.