Shub-Niggurath

"Ever Their praises, and abundance to the Black Goat of the Woods. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!"

- H. P. Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness"

Shub-Niggurath, also known as the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, is a cosmic entity living on the planet Yaddith, where her minions, the Dholes destroyed the civilisation of the Yaddithian. Shub-Niggurath is worshipped as fertility deity by many civilisations such as humans or Mi-Go.

Appearances

 * "The Last Test", by H. P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro (1928)
 * "The Dunwich Horror", by H. P. Lovecraft (1929)
 * "The Whisperer in Darkness", by H. P. Lovecraft (1931)
 * "The Dreams in the Witch House", by H. P. Lovecraft (1933)
 * "The Thing on the Doorstep", by H. P. Lovecraft (1937)