Editing Shoggoth (section)

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{{Infobox character
| name = Shoggoth
| series = [[Cthulhu Mythos]]
| image = Shoggoth by Nottsuo.jpg
| image_size = 200px
| caption = An artist's rendition of a shoggoth
| first = ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]''
| creator = [[H. P. Lovecraft]]
| alias = Shaggoth
}}

A '''shoggoth''' (occasionally '''shaggoth'''<ref>This spelling appears in the original [[Arkham House]] printing for "The Thing on the Doorstep" (1937 or shuggoth), though the definitive manuscripts show that the proper spelling is in fact "shoggoth". (Burleson, ''H. P. Lovecraft, A Critical Study'', footnote #14, p. 195.)</ref>) is a fictional creature in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. The beings were mentioned in passing in [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s [[sonnet cycle]] ''[[Fungi from Yuggoth]]'' (1929–30), and later mentioned in other works, before being described in detail in his [[novella]] ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]'' (1931).<ref>{{cite book |last=Joshi |first=S.T. |author-link=S. T. Joshi |title=An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia |last2=Schultz |first2=David E. |date=2004 |publisher=Hippocampus Press |isbn=978-0974878911 |pages=9–13}}</ref>