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  • noun Plural form of shoggoth.

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Examples

  • Or, worse still, a distant planet on which exist some kind of hideous creatures called "shoggoths".

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2008

  • What could have merely been a simple horror story is instead turned into something more substantial when the author places the shoggoths 'genesis in pitch-perfect context with the personal experiences of the scientist, particularly regarding racism, and with the treatment of Jews in pre-WWII Germany.

    REVIEW: 2009 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2009

  • Our graduates need to know about those who lie beneath the earth, waiting until the stars align so they can return to their rightful place as our masters and wage war against the Elder Things and the shoggoths!

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Our graduates need to know about those who lie beneath the earth, waiting until the stars align so they can return to their rightful place as our masters and wage war against the Elder Things and the shoggoths!

    Lovecraft in the Classroom : The Lovecraft News Network 2009

  • What could have merely been a simple horror story is instead turned into something more substantial when the author places the shoggoths 'genesis in pitch-perfect context with the personal experiences of the scientist, particularly regarding racism, and with the treatment of Jews in pre-WWII Germany.

    AUDIO REVIEW: The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction edited by Allan Kaster 2009

  • An African-American biologist visits the shoggoths living on the coast of Maine, while war brews in Germany across the ocean.

    The Hugo Novelette nominees nwhyte 2009

  • A few boat trips out to where they are located (with the help of a white fisherman) helps the scientist learn more than he bargained for, and enough to put him in a position of import regarding the shoggoths themselves.

    REVIEW: 2009 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees 2009

  • A few boat trips out to where they are located (with the help of a white fisherman) helps the scientist learn more than he bargained for, and enough to put him in a position of import regarding the shoggoths themselves.

    AUDIO REVIEW: The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction edited by Allan Kaster 2009

  • In the March Asimov's: "Shoggoths in Bloom*," being an ironical post-Lovecraftian exegesis that explores the adventures following on a black college professor's research into wild shoggoths off the coast of Maine, on the eve of the Second World War.

    Cat Vs. Monkey: Scorecard so far today... ellen_datlow 2008

  • Also, via a comment on my reading list, keep those pesky shoggoths out of your pants.

    i wake up and its nothing at al. a hungry wolf, or an angry child. matociquala 2008

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