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Shub-Niggurath in the mythos



—H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, "The Mound"



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


Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath


Robert Bloch, "Notebook Found in a Deserted House"


Gof'nn hupadgh Shub-Niggurath


The Black Goat


Appearances in other fiction

Both Stephen King and Terry Pratchett have referenced Shub-Niggurath in their works. Terry Pratchett parodies Lovecraftian gods, referring to them as the things from the "Dungeon Dimensions". For example, in Pratchett's Moving Pictures]], the being "Tshup Aklathep, Infernal Star Toad with A Million Young" kills its victims by showing them pictures of its children until their brains implode. Some of the Doctor Who spin-off novels have identified the Nestene Consciousness (the being which animates the Autons) as one of the offspring of Shub-Niggurath. The connection was first drawn in Millennial Rites by Craig Hinton, and has been followed up in other appearances of the Consciousness in the novels.

Other appearances

  • A Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath is the final adversary of the first-person shooter computer game Quake.
  • Shub-Niggurath makes an appearance as the main villain in the online PC game Arcane 2: The Stone Circle.
  • In Bruno the Bandit, one of the denizens of the demon world is "Shub-Megawrath", a goat-like blob creature with a thousand children (1001, if you count the croatoan clone of Bruno she created). The character is meant to be another of the Lovecraft references that occasionally pepper the strip.
  • Shub-Niggurath is the name of a French band.
  • Shub-Niggurath is the name of an old Mexican black/death metal band (albums: Horror Creatures Demo, 1990; Unknown Adorer EP, 1991; Blasphemies Of Nether World EP, 1992; The Black Goatlike Arise Demo, 1993; Evilness And Darkness Prevails Full-length, 1994; The Kinglike Celebration (Final Aeon on Earth) Full-length, 1997).
  • Shub-Niggurath is mentioned by the band Morbid Angel in their song "Angel of Disease".


  1. ^  Harms, "Shub-Niggurath", The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana, pp. 275.
  2. ^  Campbell, "The Moon-Lens", Cold Print.
  3. ^  Ferraresi, "The Question of Shub-Niggurath", Crypt of Cthulhu #35, pp. 17–8, 22.

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