The Study of Tales

The Study of Tales is a Goatwriter story. In this story Goatwriter himself has gone missing. He is searching for the truly untold tale and he wandered into a forest where he had odd visions that directed him toward a pool of water deep into the forest. Mrs. Comb and Pithecanthropus set out to find him. While walking through the forest they meet a writer who is being chased by word hounds. Eventually they find the pool and see Goatwriter floating in it. He appears to be dead. Mrs. Comb rushes to his body but as soon as a wing touches the water she also falls dead. Pithecanthropus cannot imagine life without them so he decides to jump in and join them.

Goatwriter is now freed from his body and has never felt better. He (as a sentient soul) wanders into a house where his writers bureau and brush (which can now talk) are waiting for him. He looks back at his previous story attempts: The All-Consuming: Hunger: Which Shrouds: The Study of Tales. and he begins to write with a new sense of purpose.