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Shoggoth, the Glossary

A shoggoth (occasionally shaggoth) is a fictional monster in the Cthulhu Mythos.^[1]

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Cthulhu Mythos species
Fictional amorphous creatures
Fictional genetically engineered characters
Literary characters introduced in 1930
Literary villains

Amoeba

An amoeba (less commonly spelled ameba or amœba;: amoebas (less commonly, amebas) or amoebae (amebae)), often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Arkham House

Arkham House was an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction.

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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.

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At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931.

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Black box

In science, computing, and engineering, a black box is a system which can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs (or transfer characteristics), without any knowledge of its internal workings.

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Chatbot

A chatbot (originally chatterbot) is a software application or web interface that is designed to mimic human conversation through text or voice interactions.

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ChatGPT

ChatGPT is a chatbot and virtual assistant developed by OpenAI and launched on November 30, 2022.

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Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist.

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Cthulhu Mythos

The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of Anglo-American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

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Elder Thing

The Elder Things (also known as the Old Ones and Elder Ones) are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos. Shoggoth and Elder Thing are Cthulhu Mythos species, fictional extraterrestrial characters, fictional extraterrestrial species and races and fictional monsters.

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Encyclopedia Cthulhiana

Encyclopedia Cthulhiana is a reference guide to the invented places, beings, and concepts from the Cthulhu Mythos developed by H. P. Lovecraft and others.

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Fungi from Yuggoth

Fungi from Yuggoth is a sequence of 36 sonnets by cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction.

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Hyperborean cycle

The Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea.

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Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.

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Internet meme

An Internet meme, or simply meme, is a cultural item (such as an idea, behaviour, or style) that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms.

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Large language model

A large language model (LLM) is a computational model notable for its ability to achieve general-purpose language generation and other natural language processing tasks such as classification.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Microsoft Copilot

Microsoft Copilot is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Microsoft.

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Mutation

In biology, a mutation is an alteration in the nucleic acid sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA.

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Necronomicon

The Necronomicon, also referred to as the Book of the Dead, or under a purported original Arabic title of, is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers.

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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.

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Novella

A novella is a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than most novels, but longer than most novelettes and short stories.

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Protoplasm

Protoplasm is the living part of a cell that is surrounded by a plasma membrane.

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Smiley

A smiley, sometimes called a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a smiling face.

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Sonnet cycle

A sonnet cycle or sonnet sequence is a group of sonnets, arranged to address a particular person or theme, and designed to be read both as a collection of fully realized individual poems and as a single poetic work comprising all the individual sonnets.

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Sphere

A sphere (from Greek) is a geometrical object that is a three-dimensional analogue to a two-dimensional circle.

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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, written in 1838, is the only complete novel by American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoggoth

Also known as Shaggath, Shaggoth, Shoggey beast, Shoggothim, Shoggoths, Shuggoth.