Shub-Niggurath

Also on file as: The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young

Rarely described directly in the earliest stories — more a name invoked by cultists in ritual than a figure who appears on the page. Associated with fertility, wild places, and monstrous broods of offspring, Shub-Niggurath became one of the most referenced entities in later Mythos fiction despite (or because of) that original vagueness.