A very long time ago,
there once was a land called Goblindom hidden behind a magic barrier to
protect its inhabitants from mankind. Man’s ancestors the humins lived
there quietly alongside wyverns, griffins, trolls, witches and wizards
as well as woods, mountain and plains goblins, ravens, eagles and many
more creatures.
This anthology is a collection of thirty tales, which I have translated from goblin into English thanks to Globular Van der
Graff, a friendly southern woods goblin who told them to me not long
ago. They are not my tales, they are his, hence the title – Globular Van der Graff’s “Goblin Tales for Adults”.
For a long time, like most
human children I disbelieved the stories read to me by my parents of
goblins, witches and wizards, wyverns and griffins, believing them to be nothing more than tales designed to entertain, until that first fateful early morning visit several months ago, when Glob physically sought me
out and deliberately entered my life.
I hope and pray that like me,
you will all open your hearts and minds to the fact that goblins,
especially of the noble and friendly southern woods kind, do still
actually exist today. Through necessity for their own protection they
have to hide from the modern world you and I live in. If you are
fortunate as I undoubtedly am, some may even be living in an oak wood
near you.
Lastly, may I just say on behalf of Glob whose anthology
this is, not forgetting for one moment his good friend Bejuss, and his
goblin brothers, Make, Mous, Neo, Byz, and myself, how much we thank you for taking the time to read this, the first ever written record of the
once magical land of Goblindom.
