Goblin Souk

"The Tale of Ibrahim and the Ghoul's Grandmother"

I should have done this earlier, but I have been flogging this book elsewhere; so here we come home!

There’s ten square good stories in this, set in various mystic and mystic-adjacent places, and I am fortunate enough to have one in here myself, "The Tale of Ibrahim and the Ghoul's Grandmother". If you’ve been reading here, you may recall stories, and legends, here about the Queen of Penesthelia, set during the Famine and Caballardo periods. Sorry, I don’t have them sorted out more finely than you find in that internal link. The tale of Ibrahim comes well after the Queen’s floruit (205 - 220). Ibrahim’s story is an Iphigenian folktale told in the lands west of Calypso and north of the Great Thalassa, but it is, in its way, also a true story. When did it happen? Who knows! But about 400 (420 years “ago” to Dardana) is probably a good guess, give or take half a century.

Don’t fail to pick it up or it will be a year before you get to read it here!