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The Migo Queen

Image is a whale sized grub looking creature with a shrimplike abdomen and a mass of feelers for a head.

The Migo Queen
by Reuben Dodd for the OctoberNomicon Art Contest

“Police are on day 6 of a manhunt searching for the serial killer plaguing Redwood Heights.  So far 7 bodies have been found, with parts of the bodies surgically removed.  Local conspiracy theorists are calling back to the cattle mutilations north of Redwood Heights back in the 80’s.  This and Girl’s soccer tournament results tonight for you on News Channel 6” Continue reading »

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CONTESTS! VOTING!

Here are your contest updates:

  • Augustus Cantos voting begins NOW (Lower right hand corner of any page, feel free to vote for more than one)!
  • OctoberNomicon Writing voting begins Nov 1 (submit your monsters soon!!)
  • OctoberNomicon Art voting begins Nov 15 (More time to submit your art!!)
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One of ours does good.

After we started running for a while… I came to the belief that Shoggoth.net often functions as the “Minor Leagues” of the Cthulhu Mythos & Weird Fiction community. So far we’ve had to pull articles from the site because they have been published in print anthologies, we’ve had a fan who enjoyed the site without posting start my favorite game company, and most recently, we had a guy submit an entry into our art contest and got a cover deal out of it. Brave readers, you have no idea how proud this makes me. So, as you read this, if you have a creative leaning, a crazy idea, or other exciting idea.. write them up and send them in. You may think your idea sucks. You may be right. BUT those who read your work will make suggestions and comments in the comments and can help you create better next time. You may inspire someone else to post their work. You may be wrong and end up getting some paying work. A good & trusted friend told me just today; “there are LOADS of good people, talented people, who just need some encouragement. We need to train a new crop, because the Great Old Ones are starting to die off.”

Truer words have never been said. Submit, submit often, and we’ll continue to do our best to bring you our worst. Our most horrid, our most alien, our most dispicable. Because here’s our secret. We are you. Shoggoth.net is ran by and for you, the creepy kids of all ages who read our stories, play our games, and draw our pictures and write our tales. For this, I am most honored and humbled. Thank you each and every one of you, yes, even those of you who have never submitted and never will. Our only hope is that we live up to the great expectation and duty you’ve chosen to bestow on us. We shall endeavour to increase our presence and our reach. We shall hit up all the conventions we’re able to so that if you can’t make it, you can feel like you’re there (HP Lovecraft Film Fest: Portland videos are coming soon). We shall try to get more contests up, we are working behind the scenes to develop new technologies for the site to offer users more functionality. Like the creatures of our namesake, we work tirelessly; day & night, to serve the community and enrich the mythos we all love.

Here is the link to the Golden Goblin Press posting about it.

Ia Ia!! Tekelili

Matt “trollboy” Wiseman
Head Weirdo of Shoggoth.net

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Finally! Lovecraftian Christmas Cards!

Cthulhu Christmas cards!

Aren’t you tired of the same old Christmas cards, maybe something with a reference to evil incarnate but lacking that TRUE Lovecraftian feel?

Well, take a look at what Daniel and Heather Gelon have for you on Kickstarter!

From their Kickstarter page:

We love giving and receiving holiday cards, but best of all we love giving and receiving cards that reflect our special view of the universe. For several years we’ve made our own cards, by hand, but this year we want to do more. This year we want to have a Lovecraft Christmas.

CardPromo Continue reading »

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Feline Gestalt Consciousness

Enter the contest. Draw this creature. Click here.

This creature doesn’t have art yet. You can help and possibly even win cool prizes by making the art yourself! Click here to find out more

“The innkeeper’s son, vowed that he had at twilight seen all the cats of Ulthar in that accursed yard under the trees, pacing very slowly and solemnly in a circle around the cottage, two abreast, as if in performance of some unheard-of rite of beasts. The villagers did not know how much to believe from so small a boy; and though they feared that the evil pair had charmed the cats to their death, they preferred not to chide the old cotter till they met him outside his dark and repellent yard…”
–The Cats of Ulthar
By H. P. Lovecraft

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It begins..

Howdy Denizens, Trollboy here.  October is going to be an absolutely insane time for us. Well.. more so than usual.   Continue reading »

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OctoberNomicon Art Contest: The Mantis Men

We’ve been secretive with the list of monsters so far, and that is no longer necessary. As such, as monsters are revealed, if they don’t already have art, we’ll be listing them here as available.  If at any time all currently revealed monsters have all their art shown, duplicates; other renditions of the monsters by other artists, will be accepted.   Continue reading »

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Rise of Cthulhu – Second Print Run


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Lovecraftesque!


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Tales of the Caribbean

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