
#057 Often called "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young", she is an Outer God in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. The being first appeared in Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test" (1928) in Lovecraft's fiction, she is never actually described, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations. Shub-Niggurath also appears in the works of other mythos authors, including August Derleth, Lin Carter, and Brian Lumley. In the mythos, she is a perverse fertility deity, said to appear as an "evil cloud-like entity", like enormous mass which extrudes black tentacles, slime-dripping mouths, and short, writhing goat legs. Small creatures are continually spat forth by the monstrosity, which are either consumed into the miasmatic form or escape to some monstrous life elsewhere. | Book II - Outer God